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British architecture is about to hit a new high with the "topping out" of a record-breaking 441-metre (1,440ft) tower in south China's finance capital.
The 100-storey Kingkey Finance Tower, based in the city of Shenzhen, is part of a 417,000 square metre office, retail, The Shenzhen structure is nearly twice the height of 1 Canada Square, the Canary Wharf tower block that is Britain's tallest building. It is also much taller than the Shard of Glass, the 310m-high development near London Bridge that will be the top dog in the UK capital when it is completed.
These claims to fame will see the architect, Sir Terry Farrell, adding another landmark to a portfolio which includes
The tower is the eighth-tallest building in the world, with apartments covering 210,000 square metres and 173,000 "I've always been fascinated by mixed-use developments and that's the key here," said 71-year-old Farrell.
"It will be like an urban district, a market square where you can congregate, meet people and have a coffee. I love
Farrell said that the phenomenal growth of China gave British architects and engineers – and, in turn, the struggling
"It's often said you go to America for its can-do attitude, the far east for application and detail and Europe for
In fact Farrell, who was behind the redevelopment of the South Bank, Covent Garden and Charing Cross station –
Last month, his firm TFP Farrells was appointed to help design the Z15 Tower, which will come in at more than 500
Farrell, who has a Chinese wife, studied architecture at Newcastle University and city planning at the University (转自The Guardian (London)) |