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EXPLORE | SHANGHAI EDITION
Shanghai Tower has a thick concrete core instead of simple steel girder as a recently renovated design. Many green elements are adopted to super-block to lower the maintenance and energy for such an enormous building, one of them is an outer skin of two-layer glass layout.
But the trouble concerned by many observers is most the astonishingly low occupancy rate of the Tower. It has failed to meet high leasing demands due to the absence of the necessary fire certificates from the heavily bureaucratized local fire department. Available floors are mainly leased to domestic corporations which only 30% of them are able to move in, not to mention the difficulties for a multinational company to lend any of the spaces. In addition, due to the twisting wind offsetting structure of the building, each floor has down to only 50% of its total space as practically usable, while tenants are forced to pay for all low-efficiency areas. These two are the troubling reasons for the Tower to have as much as 55 empty floors in 2019. The largest potential upper floor client, the 5-star luxury J-Hotel, is yet to open after years of extended delays. This phenomenon is painfully obvious at night, when half the super high-rise fails to light up.
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