To maintain the integrity of the Chinese property market, new developers aren't permitted to start pre-sales on their schemes until authorities have inspected and signed off on the finished product, with exemptions typically only granted to established and usually state-owned firms.Īt the time, Goldin Properties was a publicly listed, Hong Kong-based company and a relatively new player in the mainland Chinese market.
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Not unlike the structural system used at Malaysia’s Merdeka PNB118, Goldin Finance 117 was designed with a perimeter frame consisting of tapering mega columns, mega braces and transfer trusses, all supported by - and tied back to - a full height reinforced concrete core creating a near immovable structure.īut while on the surface the skyscraper appeared no different to many of the others rising across China at the time, underneath it seems like the cards were stacked against the project from the beginning. Lacking any major setbacks to disrupt wind loads and with its height-to-width ratio of 9.5:1 exceeding the limit set by China’s seismic code, Goldin Finance 117 should have been highly susceptible to lateral forces - and given a logical reason for its abandonment - but the building was designed in such a way to resist these forces.Ībove: Mega columns, mega trusses and mega braces give the build immense resistance e against lateral forces. In fact, when comparing it with other structures purely on the highest habitable floor, the building would have been second only to the Burj Khalifa - with just half a metre in it. Unique among many of the world’s tallest buildings, Goldin Finance 117 was to be habitable up to its highest point, foregoing the addition of any vanity height that seems to have become commonplace among many of today’s tallest skyscrapers. Likened to a walking stick the mixed-use tower would contain 128 floors above ground with 117 of them housing hotel and commercial space - as well as providing the ingenious source of the building’s name - 11 dedicated to mechanical and operational services and a further four levels underground. Image courtesy of Goldin Properties Holdings. We mean this literally, the building was to be topped with a three-storey diamond-shaped atrium which would have housed the world’s highest observation deck, swimming pool, restaurant and sky bar.Ībove: Goldin Finance 117 was to be topped by a three-storey diamond-shaped atrium. With multiple residential and commercial towers, French and Italian style manors, a wine museum, extensive gardens and even a polo club, the scheme was aimed at the super-rich, with the landmark skyscraper viewed as the jewel in its crown. Proposed back in 2008, when cities across China were vying for their place on the world stage, Goldin Finance 117 was to be the centrepiece of billionaire Pat Sutong’s, “Goldin Metropolitan” scheme – a 1.8 square kilometre high-end residential and central business district about eight kilometres from downtown Tianjin. With communication drying up in 2018 and no official word on when – or even if – the project will ever be completed, many have come to wonder how one of the world’s strongest economies with the fastest rate of urbanisation in history – become home to the World’s Tallest Ghostscraper?Ībove: Goldin Finance 117 would have been the fifth tallest skyscraper ever built. When construction began 13 years ago, Goldin Finance 117 in Tianjin was going to be the fifth tallest skyscraper ever built – today, it's probably most well known as that building those daredevils on YouTube climbed.ĭespite reaching its full height of 597 metres in 2015, the site was suddenly deserted shortly afterwards, and the project remains unfinished to this day.
It’s a record China never wanted to hold.
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