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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

SOM建筑设计事务所

Chicago firm that designed the Jin Mao Tower in Lujiazui; Adrian Smith was the designer.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), a Chicago firm, designed the Jin Mao Tower in Lujiazui, with Adrian Smith as the designer. The Chinese name given above is a placeholder, since the sources opened for this entry did not state it; check it before publishing.

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Jin Mao Tower's tiered tower rising above Lujiazui streets.
Photo: xiquinhosilva · CC BY 2.0

Building· 1994–1999

Jin Mao Tower

金茂大厦Jīnmào Dàshà

An 88-storey, 420.5 m Pudong tower by SOM, with a form drawn from pagodas and proportions built on the number 8; the Grand Hyatt fills its upper floors.

Sources

  1. 1.English Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (English Wikipedia), Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Mao_Towerwikipedia
  2. 2.Chinese Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (中文维基百科), Wikimedia Foundation — https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/金茂大厦wikipedia