Wuhan Greenland Center

Wuhan Greenland Center^[3] is a 476 metres (1,562 ft) tall skyscraper in Wuhan, China. The tower was originally planned to be 636 metres (2,087 ft), but it was redesigned mid-construction due to airspace regulations so its height does not exceed 502 metres (1,650 ft) above ground level.^[4]

Wuhan Greenland Center
武汉绿地中心
Alternative names	Greenland Center, WGC
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Hotel / serviced apartments / office
Architectural style	Modern
Location	Wuhan, Hubei
Address	Linjiang Avenue
Country	China
Construction started	28 June 2012
Completed	2022
Cost	$4.5 billion
Owner	Wuhan Greenland Bin Jiang Property
Height	476 m (1,562 ft)
Technical details
Material	Composite
Floor count	101 (+6 below ground)
Floor area	303,275 m2 (3,264,420 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	84
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Architecture firm	Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture ECADI
Developer	Greenland Group
Structural engineer	Thornton Tomasetti
Services engineer	PositivEnergy Practice Parsons Brinckerhoff
Civil engineer	Prism Engineering
Main contractor	China State Construction Engineering Greenland Group
Other information
Parking	1051
References
[1][2]

The building was designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in conjunction with Thornton Tomasetti Engineers won the design competition^[5] to build the tower for Greenland Group, a real estate developer owned by the Shanghai city government. Construction started in 2012 and had been put on-hold numerous times following the redesign in mid-2017 ranging from financial problems, to the COVID-19 pandemic. The building finally topped-out in late 2020 and was completed in 2022. The Wuhan Greenland Center is Central China's tallest building with a cost of US$ 4.5 billion, mostly due to the number of times it had been put on-hold.

Original design

The original plan for the building was to have it rise 636 metres (2,087 ft),^[6] surpassing the Shanghai Tower by only 4.3 metres (14 ft) and the Tokyo Skytree by 2.1 metres (7 ft), making it the second tallest man-made structure in the world. The tower was also supposed to have 126 floors, the second most of any building in the world, as well. When the Wuhan Greenland Center reached its 96th floor, construction was halted due to airspace restrictions which led to its subsequent redesign to a 476 metres (1,562 ft)^[7] building instead of a 636 metres (2,087 ft) building. The Wuhan Greenland Center is currently the 14th tallest building in the world.

Floor directory (current design)

97-101	Hotel rooms
90-96	mechanical layer, refuge area
80–89	Serviced hotel
79	service hotel, refuge area
71–78	Serviced hotel
70	service hotel sky lobby
67–69	mechanical layer, refuge area
60–66	Offices
59	refuge area
51–58	Offices
49–50	sky lobby
48	refuge area
39–47	Offices
36–38	mechanical layer
35	refuge area
27–34	Offices
25–26	sky lobby
24	refuge area
15–23	Offices
14	refuge area
5–13	Offices
2–4	mechanical layer
1–1M	office lobby, serviced hotel lobby hotel lobby
B1M	bike storage
B1	banquet hall, hotel services, unloading area
B5–B2	parking, mechanical layer

Timeline

• 8 December 2010: Ceremony for construction held.^[8]
• 1 July 2011: Overall construction started.^{[citation needed]}
• 28 June 2012: Started building underground reinforcement structure.^[9]
• 12 September 2012: Started digging the base.^[10]
• 26 June 2013: Base completed.^[11]
• 4 January 2014: First steel beams installed.^[12]
• 28 July 2014: Basement finished, above-ground construction started.^[13]
• 30 December 2015: The building reached 200 metres (660 ft) above ground.^[14]
• April 2016: The building reached 245 metres (804 ft) above ground and cladding has become visible.
• June 2016: The building reached 300 metres (980 ft) above ground.^[15]
• 27 December 2016: The building reached 400 metres (1,300 ft) above ground.^[16]
• Mid 2017: Construction stalled at 101 floors and the subsequent redesign of the building
• Late 2020: Wuhan Greenland Center tops out
• Mid 2022: Wuhan Greenland Center is completed

Construction gallery

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  Construction Site
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  Main tower in 2014

See also

• Goldin Finance 117
• Baoneng Shenyang Global Financial Center
• List of tallest buildings in China
• List of tallest buildings in the world