Tomorrow Square

Tomorrow Square
明天广场
Tomorrow Square in September 2016
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office, hotel, restaurant, apartments
Location	Huangpu District, Shanghai, China
Coordinates	31.232°N 121.465°E / 31.232; 121.465
Construction started	1997
Estimated completion	1 October 2003
Height
Antenna spire	285 m (935 ft)
Roof	238 m (781 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	63
Floor area	130,063 m2 (1,399,990 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	15
Design and construction
Architect(s)	John Portman & Associates
Website
JW Marriott Shanghai

Tomorrow Square (simplified Chinese: 明天广场; traditional Chinese: 明天廣場; pinyin: Míngtiān Guǎngchǎng) is the eighth-tallest building in Shanghai, China. It is located in Huangpu District, Puxi, close to People's Square. It is about 285 m (934 ft) tall and has 63 floors.

This multi-purpose building contains a 342-room JW Marriott hotel, and 255 executive apartment units. It was completed on 1 October 2003. Starting from a square base, the all-concrete Tomorrow Square tower transforms itself into a diagonal square as it rises to a peak. Engineers of the exterior vertical support system were faced with a unique challenge as a result of this unusual shape. They chose flat slabs for the hotel floors and beam and slab construction for the office floors. A combination of shear walls and frame action stabilizes the slender tower laterally against wind and earthquake forces. The foundations are 80-meter (260 ft)-long bored piles supporting a column mat.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Shanghai

External links

• JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai
• Marriott Executive Apartments
• "Tomorrow Square". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
• "Emporis building ID 131104". Emporis. Archived from the original on November 16, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
• "Tomorrow Square". SkyscraperPage.