Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia Region Guangzhou International Finance Center, Guangzhou Towards an Elegant Simplicity

Chris Wilkinson, Principal, Wilkinson Eyre Architects Michael Kwok, Director, Arup

Perspective

Perspective

Wind Analysis

Hotel Atrium

Perspective

Perimeter Diagrid Tube

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RC Core

Structural System

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L69

Moment Frame + Wall

RC Core

Hotel Transition Zone

Structural System

L70

L73

Concrete shear wall + steel columns

Structural System Hotel Transition Zone

Efficiency of form - Diagrid

Office = 4.2m F/F Hotel = 3.6m F/F

25.2m

Varies

Structural System

Perimeter Diagrid

Composite Steel Beam

RC Core

Typical Floor System Structural System

Composite Floor Construction Steel Beam + Profiled Decking + Concrete Topping

Structural System

Diagrid Tube Structural System

Internal tie forces spread out along external diagrid columns

Tie Forces Structural System

25mm Plate 5mm Plate

Additional reinforcement to control tensile stresses distribution at every six floors

Tie Forces Structural System

B4

L1

L7

L13

L19

Tie Forces Structural System

Wind Seismic

Seismic and Wind Analysis Structural System

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