Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture has won an international competition to design the Wuhan Greenland Center in China, which is tipped to be the fourth tallest building in the world.
The other finalists in the design competition were fellow Chicago outfit SOM, HOK, German practice GMP, and Hong Kong-based P&T Architects.
Construction of the 606m-high building – likely to be China’s third tallest, though there is lots of competition – is due to begin this summer. It should take five years to complete.
The Chicago-based practice designed the 450m Nanjing Greenland Financial Center for the client when its principals worked for SOM, where Smith was also responsible for Dubai’s Burj Khalifa tower.
He has designed four of the world’s 11 tallest completed buildings: Dubai’s Burj Khalifa (No.1), Nanjing’s Zifeng Tower at Nanjing Greenland Financial Center (No.7), Chicago’s Trump International Hotel & Tower (No.10) and Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower (No.11), all at SOM.
“Adrian is one of a relatively small number of architects who has designed and built a significant number of not only tall, but supertall, buildings internationally,” said Antony Wood, CTBUH’s executive director.
