[avcellvs]

Hopson International Tower

Architect : KPF. 180 m high, 33 floors.

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[Fabb]

KPF ! Again ?
They weren't very creative this time.

[ENDOPHINS]

KPF ! Again ?
They weren't very creative this time.

Agree . :uhh:

But the building is going to have a triangular shape ??

[avcellvs]

It's KPF fourth building under construction in Shanghai and the third in Lujiazui.

This building might be more intresting than it looks on the renderings. It looks like it will have a nice skin, soft angles and sligtly curved facades. The top is quite unusual. Let's wait and see.

[Chad]

Fantastic location!!!

[avcellvs]

But the building is going to have a triangular shape ??

I thought so but in fact in looks more like a square plan with slightly convex facades. This building is quite subtle, it deserves more than a quick glance. See the change of rythm induced by the three last floors height variation too.

On the renderings, its skin looks very "glassy", like if the whole building was under a glass bell forming a second glass skin, which seems to be the case for its top structure. Once again let's give it a chance.

[avcellvs]

February 11th 2005, from the JinMao. Still foundations works.

The false stone cladding of the Shangri La Hotel extension south side is almost completed.

And look at those SIP spires ! Crazily high !

http://i2.pbase.com/u42/xerius/large/39762798.IMG_0044.jpg

[Fabb]

And look at those SIP spires ! Crazily high !

http://i2.pbase.com/u42/xerius/large/39762798.IMG_0044.jpg

Nothing like I expected.

[avcellvs]

February 29th 2005, from the JinMao. The pilling machines gives us an idea of where the tower will rise.

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[avcellvs]

April 7th 2005, from the JinMao.
Construction is progressing quite quickly on this yard, soon they should be digging the underground floors.

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[avcellvs]

May 2nd 2005, from the JinMao. Quick progress, they are building the second underground floor.

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[avcellvs]

May 16th 2005, from the JinMao.

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[avcellvs]

May 29th 2005, from the JinMao.

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[avcellvs]

June 25th 2005, from the JinMao. The three underground floors seem now completed.

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200506/1198/119895/119895_1119671172.jpg

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[avcellvs]

July 3rd 2005, from the JinMao.

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[avcellvs]

September 10th 2005, from the JinMao. View on a part of the plot. Two of the three underground floors has been constructed in half of the excavation. (great view of the SHKP site too, no activities)

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[avcellvs]

September 23th 2005, from the JinMao.

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[ltsmotorsport]

Nice shot with the sunset and all. Looks like there's a nice little grouping forming right there.

[Chad]

Will it be taller than Te Shangri La?

[avcellvs]

Unfortunatly not. The four towers in this block nearly have the same 180 meters height.

[Fabb]

180 m and only 33 floors ?
The floor-to-floor height will be very important. Over 5 m.

[avcellvs]

180 m and only 33 floors ?
The floor-to-floor height will be very important. Over 5 m.

May be not that high but probably quite important, for the "180 m 33 floors" information is official (see first pic of the thread). Around 40 storeys would have been more usual.

But there is that strange structure at the top, whatever it is it's roughly 5 or 6 floors high. Just below you have four storeys where the floor to floor heigh looks double. We need better renderings.

[avcellvs]

Any changes on that plot ? It sould be rising soon.
Last pix we saw they were filling the excavation.

[giallo]

I just happened to be in the area today and took these shots....


Here is a more detailed rendering. I think the structure up top is around five stories

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec31hopson2.jpg




Not the best picture, but I got chased out of the site. As you can see the crane is up

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec31hopson.jpg

[avcellvs]

Did you had the time to see if the underground floors are completed ?

[giallo]

The crane has been raised.

Feb 17

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/feb17hopson.jpg

[avcellvs]

Good news, completing the foreground of this area will had density to the Lujiazui skyline :D

[giallo]

Mar 13

Not yet out of the ground

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar13hopson.jpg

[avcellvs]

April, 13th 2006, from the HSBC tower (pic by oysterperpetual)

The excavation is nearly filled, this building will soon rise. From the Bund, it may soon block the view on SWFC construction.

Great view on the Pelli twins plot too.

http://image.xitek.com/forum/200604/2068/206882/206882_1144919119.jpg

[Fabb]

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec31hopson2.jpg

Here is a more detailed rendering. I think the structure up top is around five stories



I wonder if it's only decorative.

[giallo]

I'd imagine so. It'll probably have a great lighting scheme.

[giallo]

Apr 20



Foundations for the first floor are going up. It's a weird looking site from the air

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/apr20hopson.jpg

[avcellvs]

Hot news, Giallo ! I think we can clearly see the footprint of the building now : really close to the Shangri La Hotel extension.

[some_stupid_nut]

I wonder if it's only decorative.

From the rendering it looks like its just a clear wall of glass.

[giallo]

The security around this building is crazy. I can never get in to the site. Usually, guards are pretty laid back around here. This was the best shot I could get.

May 11


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/may11hopson.jpg

[avcellvs]

First floor is up ! In a few weeks, this one will be visible from the Bund.

[giallo]

Jun 29


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/jun29hopson.jpg

[giallo]

July 19


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/july19hopson.jpg

[teddybear]

It is small compare to the other buildings?? I thought it should be bigger?

[giallo]

Aug 11


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/aug11hopson.jpg

[R@ptor]

I’m back from my huge China trip and of course I also covered all the construction going on there. So I have construction updates for buildings in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi’an, Hangzhou and Suzhou. It will take a while until I post all of them here, since I took over 13,800 photos during the trip and as you can imagine it takes a while to sort through all of them, but let’s start with Shanghai.

All Shanghai updates were taken between 16th and 21st August

Left from the Shangri-La Hotel
http://www.jochenhertweck.com/upload/hopson01.JPG

[Fabb]

It looks like it has a small footprint. That won't be a massive tower.

[giallo]

Oct 27


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/oct27hopson.jpg

[Fabb]

^About ten more flloors in over two months.

[Shanghai_Fan]

November 13th, from Cityrain's thread
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7065/2696491163865474mo4.jpg

[avcellvs]

February 14th 2007

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[Fabb]

Almost topped out ! It's probably a matter of weeks.

[Urban Zombie®]

Wow, that's jumped quite a few spaces since the end of 2006. My attention has been so focused on SWFC that I didn't even notice.

[Shanghai_Fan]

Almost topped out ! It's probably a matter of weeks.

Not at all! Check this:
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?25861803

It's going to be as tall as Citigroup Tower :)

[Lecom]

Sleek.

[avcellvs]

February 19th 2007, from the Jin Mao. Almost topped out.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=394694975&size=o

[hoosier]

I can't see it.:shrug:

[avcellvs]

March 2nd 2007 :

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=407723387&size=l

[avcellvs]

March 3rd 2007. Nice shot from the JinMao. Good view on the SHKP and Global Financial Building plots too :

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=409067712&size=o

[avcellvs]

March 4th 2007. Nice night shot from the Bund.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=410852899&size=l

[Rise To The Top]

nm.

[giallo]

July 23


The Hopson Tower is almost topped out. It looks like they are now working on the strange penthouse component.


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1351/874014439_02f0e2a85a_o.jpg




A little closer

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1337/874014451_543a1ded33_o.jpg





http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/874014461_6316d10d53_o.jpg

[staff]

Blue (gray) skies? Nice..

Is there a rendering around for this tower? I have no idea how it will look when completed.

Nice update by the way.

[Rise To The Top]

Fits the gap in the line well, but I want to see more cladding first.

[R@ptor]

Finally an update for all the Shanghai skyscrapers. Thanks a lot :)

[giallo]

Nov 19


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2004/2045709597_10d38451d5_o.jpg


The base of the tower looks nice, but doesn't fit in to the overall design


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/2045709599_6d73df027c_o.jpg

[Fabb]

The curves and the crown may make it interesting... but so far, I'm leaning towards boring.

[Rise To The Top]

Buildings like these should be a little bit taller, Pudong has too many of these 200m towers.

[samoen313]

the base evokes the parking garage spiral attached to trump chicago. slightly incongruous but the glass is nice, inoffensive. before the framing went up around the crown this thing looked mighty awkward. but i get the intent now.

[giallo]

Buildings like these should be a little bit taller, Pudong has too many of these 200m towers.


While I agree, if this one was to be taller than say, 240m, it would almost complete block out the Jin Mao from the Bund. I'm not too keen on ol' Jinny getting blocked out by 6/10 architecture

[staff]

I'm not too keen on ol' Jinny getting blocked out by 6/10 architecture
:haha:

[giallo]

The Hopson Tower now has a new name. Behold!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2177/2156987089_2b0f2be188_o.jpg

It's a mouthful. Acronym time. The MAT building it is.

[staff]

Until the sign has been completed I guess we'll have to call it the Mirae Ass Tower. :haha:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2338/2257974084_63d5e71b67_o.jpg


This is a very nice tower by the way. A nice addition to the endless collection of ~200m towers in Lujiazui.

[FrancoRey]

Haha! Wow. Nah, just leave it. ;)

[WonderlandPark]

Too bad they went through all that effort to build an interesting top, and then enclosed it in glass so that it looks like just another rounded square tower.

[staff]

^^
That top would have looked a bit awkward in my opinion.
I wonder what its function is inside the building though.

[giallo]

Feb 8


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2369/2266567662_f7bbf61331_o.jpg

[Shanghai_Fan]

Wow, I didn't know that this project is by KPF!