SHANGHAI | CMBC Tower | 628 FT / 191 M | 39 FLOORS [Archive]

giallo

Dec 29, 2005, 12:32 AM

The building looks to be about 200m. It's UC in Lujiazui beside the HSBC Tower. I'm not sure if it's all office or mixed use, but it sure has really odd floor to ceiling heights.

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec26unknown.jpg

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec26unknown2.jpg

Dec. 19th

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec19unknown.jpg

Dec. 26th

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec26unknown3.jpg

Jularc

Dec 29, 2005, 1:00 AM

it looks like it will be a good looking bulding, based on the rendering!

avcellvs

Dec 29, 2005, 9:23 AM

I wish it will be 200 meters high but I'm not that sure. In the plot rendering, it is more in the foreground than the HSBC Tower. The given height in the skyscrapers.cn diagrams section ( http://www.skyscrapers.cn/diagrams/asia/cn/sh/sh002.htm ) is just 170 meters. However proportions seem different... So let's hope !

http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/22/583/176.jpg

giallo

Jan 11, 2006, 11:21 AM

Jan 11th

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/jan11gold.jpg

colemonkee

Jan 11, 2006, 6:17 PM

The structure they're building doesn't resemble the rendering at all. The structure is asymmetrical while the rendering is symmetrical. Not to mention the rendering looks considerably wider than the actual building. I wonder if there's a new design.

Fabb

Jan 16, 2006, 6:54 PM

The actual construction looks more modest than the initial project... unless it turns out to be a very tall and slender tower.

James Bond Agent 007

Jan 17, 2006, 7:02 AM

OK, I usually don't have opinions like this about buildings, but this one looks tacky.

I suppose it'll just get buried in with the rest of the towers there.

jacks

Jan 18, 2006, 9:27 AM

This is not a new building. It is an old one that is being reclad. NOt sure what the name was and I moved out of lu jia zui a month ago so I can't go check but I'm sure it's been discussed on here before.

phillyskyline

Jan 18, 2006, 12:48 PM

Is it me or does it look like the opposite design of Comcast Center?

giallo

Mar 1, 2006, 2:48 PM

This one is rising sooo slowly

March 1

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar1cmbc.jpg

giallo

Mar 13, 2006, 9:03 AM

Mar 13

This building cracks me up. Besides some scaffolding being removed, nothing has happened to this tower in the past couple of months. Yet when I walk past the site it's really noisy with elevators going up and down etc. Just what the hell are they doing?

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar13cmbc.jpg

jacks

Mar 13, 2006, 12:18 PM

Again, this is not a new building. It's been there a few years. They have stripped the old facade and completely gutted it. I saw plans to put a new top on it and it looked quite a bit taller and the new cladding looked a lot nicer than the old eyesore but they don't seem to have done any of this yet. The old building was a really ugly yellow and brown horizontal stripy sort of thing.
The render in the first post looks like the Jasper tower which would be in front of this building from that angle when finished.

giallo

Mar 14, 2006, 1:19 AM

I remember you mentioning that this is an old building. Interesting.
As for the rendering, it's at the base of the site right where you'd enter. It's a bit of a mystery seeing that it looks nothing like the building under-construction. The Jasper rendering is a across the street and looks a lot different.

giallo

Jun 20, 2006, 7:56 AM

I saw a new rendering of this building. It looks the same except for the colour; it's now blue. Another crane has been added as well.

giallo

Jul 7, 2006, 4:10 PM

Here's the most recent rendering.

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/july6cmbc.jpg

colemonkee

Jul 7, 2006, 7:06 PM

Looks like a mini ICC (US7).

Urban Zombie®

Jul 8, 2006, 4:03 AM

Looks loads better with this more "modest" color.

Shanghai_Fan

Jul 8, 2006, 6:04 AM

Much better!

some_stupid_nut

Jul 9, 2006, 4:12 AM

Looks loads better with this more "modest" color.

Ditto!

Mini US7 should look fantastic.

giallo

Jul 26, 2006, 10:29 AM

July 26

I didn't notice until today that they are building floors between the existing ones. Basically, they are doubling each level. Looks complicated

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/july26cmbc.jpg

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/july26cmbc2.jpg

avcellvs

Nov 27, 2006, 12:07 PM

From SSC, November 24th 2006. The core has raised.

http://www.skyscrapers.cn/forum/attachments/JiMzNTg0Mzu+4w==_9V73QuGhk6eK.jpg

avcellvs

Jan 10, 2007, 5:29 PM

New rendering :

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/96/tmp7314px2.jpg

colemonkee

Jan 10, 2007, 7:42 PM

Looks good. I hope they light the corners like that with LED's.

Rise To The Top

Jan 10, 2007, 8:52 PM

Looks good, odd though how its being constructed.

avcellvs

Feb 10, 2007, 3:08 PM

February 8th 2007.

This tower is higher than previously planned. The HSBC Building is 200m hight and the core of CMBC Tower is now nearly the same height.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/383788058_8dea1ca7f9_o.jpg

colemonkee

Feb 10, 2007, 8:22 PM

That's a great shot. I love all the different styles so densely packed together like that. Whew, and I though our smog in LA was bad...

francely57

Feb 10, 2007, 9:05 PM

After less than 20 years of intense construction in a rural area (?), Lujiazui is starting to show a bit of serious density.

Shanghai_Fan

Feb 11, 2007, 2:30 AM

February 8th 2007.

This tower is higher than previously planned. The HSBC Building is 200m hight and the core of CMBC Tower is now nearly the same height.

Good news! It was supposed to reach just 170m and 39f. However, I've counted around 48f in the newest render. Let's hope it's reaching 200m now!

Nice angle, btw. I guess they took that pic from the Int Ocean Shipping Building. Lujiazui looks so dense from there. What a pity it wasn't sunny.