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Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre Height – How Tall?


Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre height is 530 m (1738.85 ft).

Meters: 530 m
Feet: 1738.845 ft
Inches: 20866.14 in
Kilometers: 0.53 km
Miles: 0.3293267 mi

About Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre

The Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is a very tall skyscraper in China. It is the third tallest building in China, surpassed only by, Shanghai Tower and Shanghai World Financial Centre, respectively. The Guangzhou CTF Finance centre is sometimes referred to as the ‘East Tower’. Like most Chinese skyscrapers, this building has extremely fast elevators.

The Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is located in Zhujiang East Road, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Location coordinates are 23°07′13″N113°19′14″E.

Elevators

The Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre has extremely fast elevators, which can reach a speed of up to 20 m/s (45 mph). The elevators use permanent magnet synchronous motors, to reach this humongous speeds. An automatic pressure gauge adjusts the air pressure inside the elevators/lifts to prevent ear popping.

Some Facts about Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre

Firstly, The Guangzhou CTF Centre elevators can reach a speed of 20 m/s (45 mph). Also, the construction of the building started on 29 September 2009. Secondly, the building was successfully completed in October 2016. Also, the whole building complex is owned and managed by Chow Tai Fook Enterprises. Thirdly, it was developed by New World Development Group. Also, the building has 355 housing apartments and 251 hotel rooms.

The building also has 95 running elevators and a total floor area in the building is 5,464,633 sq ft (507,681.0 m2). Also, it has 111 floors – 5 of which are below ground level. Furthermore, the building was opened to the general public in October 2016. Finally, the cost of erecting the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is estimated to be RMB10 billion (about US$1.5 billion).