Design concept of Shanghai World Financial Center

Shanghai World Financial Center is a comprehensive building with office as its main function and integrating business, hotel, sightseeing, conference and other facilities. The 94th to 10 1 floors of the building are sightseeing floors, the 79th to 93rd floors will be built into super five-star hotels, the 7th to 77th floors will be office buildings, the 3rd to 5th floors will be conference rooms, the 2nd to 3rd floors underground will be commercial facilities, and the 3rd to 6th floors underground are planned to have about 1 100 parking spaces. On the 100 floor, a sightseeing pavilion is designed, which is about 55 meters long and 472 meters above the ground, and will surpass the world's highest sightseeing hall, the Canadian CN TV Tower, which is 447 meters high. In addition, a sightseeing hall with an area of 700 square meters and an indoor clear height of 8 meters was designed on the 94th floor. With the panoramic view of Shanghai as the background, sightseeing pavilions and halls will become new tourist attractions in the world.

The controversy about the design of the world financial center is not only the height, but also the shape. William Patterson, president of KPF, said that the design of the financial center was originally inspired by the understanding of "heaven and earth" in China traditional culture, meaning a perfect place. Moreover, the "round hole" with a diameter of 50 meters is the size of the second ball of the "Oriental Pearl" not far away, and the hollow round hole and the solid ball just form an artistic beauty that echoes from afar. However, in the eyes of China people, this idea also shows another image. First, a Singaporean Chinese (master of the Book of Changes) wrote to the Shanghai Construction Bureau, saying that the big round hole on the roof looked too much like the Japanese sun flag from a distance.

After noticing the styling dispute, Shanghai still reached a new agreement with Japan and revised the plan. According to the latest design scheme published by Japanese developers on June 10, 2005, the circular wind tunnel has been changed into an inverted trapezoid.