Project Details
- Project Name
- Ping An Finance Center
- Client/Owner
- Ping An Insurance Company
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 4,183,752 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2017
- Shared by
- Ashleigh Popera
- Consultants
- Associate Architect: CCDI
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
Completed in 2017, Ping An Finance Centre is now Shenzhen’s tallest building, also securing status as the second tallest in China and the fourth tallest in the world. The supertall headquarters for Ping An Insurance Company acts as the physical and iconic center of the city’s central business hub, the Futian District. Located on Lot 1 at the southwest corner fof Yi Tian Road and Fu Hua Road, the tower connects to both neighboring commercial and residential properties and the Line 1 Gon Wu Gong Yuan metro station. Its height comprises 100 office floors above a retail and conference podium, accommodating 15,500 workers and 9,000 daily passengers to an observation deck.
Ping An Finance Centre stands as a stone and glass tower on the northeast corner of its central site, anchoring the entire development. The structure’s stone supports, rendered as chevron-shaped columns, converge at the tower’s height and mediate the tension of the earth to a single point in the sky. Sheathed in glass and stone, the podium is defined by a central atrium that acts as a public vestibule and sun-lit space for meeting, shopping, and dining. Five floors of retail shops terrace away from the tower, forming a large amphitheatre-like space—a new hub for the CBD. In addition, designed for local weather resistance, the tower’s tapered façade reduces wind loads by forty percent and its stainless steel piers form a protective net against lightning strikes.
