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China\u2019s Ping An Finance Center stands 599 m (1965 ft) tall, and features the largest stainless-steel fa\u00e7ade in the world.<\/span>
Photo \u00a9 Ping An Finance Center<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the standards of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat<\/a> (CTBUH), the Ping An Finance Center in China has been declared complete. Set prominently in the city of Shenzhen\u2019s Futian District, the building was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates<\/a> and developed by Ping An Finance Center Construction and Development.<\/p>\n

At 599 m (1965 ft) high, the center is the city\u2019s tallest building, as well as being the second-tallest in China and\u2014after the Burj Khalifa, Shanghai Tower<\/a>, and Makkah Royal Clock Tower\u2014fourth-tallest in the world. These are not its only accolades\u2014the building also stands up to Shenzhen\u2019s salty coastal climate with the world\u2019s largest stainless-steel fa\u00e7ade at 1.5 million kg (1700 tons) of corrosion-resistant 316L stainless steel.<\/p>\n

The structure is also resistant to baseline wind loads, thanks to a taut and streamlined shape that reduces such loads by 35 percent while enhancing visual appeal. The building\u2019s tapered, pyramid-shaped top adds to this, giving the building a prismatic appearance overall, as do the eight composite columns extruding beyond the building envelope.<\/p>\n

Ping An Finance Center also holds business appeal\u2014it contains office space for not only the owners (Ping An Life Insurance Company of China), but also other tenants, while its base includes a public atrium with stores, restaurants, and transit connections to areas within the city, region, and country.<\/p>\n

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After buildings in Dubai, Shanghai, and Mecca, the center is the fourth-tallest structure in the world.<\/span>
Image \u00a9 CTBUH<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ping An Finance Center, declared complete by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), is China’s second-tallest and the world’s fourth-tallest building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1836,"featured_media":32569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029],"tags":[1958,3286,3457,1962],"class_list":["post-32565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ctbuh","tag-national","tag-ping-an-finance-center","tag-tall-buildings","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWorld's fourth-tallest building completed in China - The Construction Specifier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/worlds-fourth-tallest-building-completed-in-china\/\" 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