Shanghai World Financial Centre is one of the world's Greatest Skyscrapers, and there is nothing likely in Toronto to match it. Although if I had to pick one Tower that could possibly (even though it can't ) go head to head with it, it would be Toronto's best skyscraper the Scotiaplaza tower at the corner of King and Bay and headquarters to the Global Banking Giant Bank of Nova Scotia. Scotia Plaza was built in 1988 at a time of great office skyscraper construction within Toronto, a market which has since tailed off and never recovered to the extent that such great towers were built in Toronto again.
And only now in the year 2012 are we contemplating office development that will reach the same heights as the towers of the 1980's even though our office tower construction pace has been relatively strong over the past 6 years.
Shanghai World Financial Centre
The Shanghai World Financial Center is located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. The building was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox as a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and ground-floor shopping malls. The tower also contains a hotel component being run by the Park Hyatt of Shanghai which containing 174 rooms and suites.
Scotia Plaza
Scotia Plaza Scotia Plaza is a pure office tower, there is no mixed usage out of this building, it is 68 floors and rises to a height of 275 meters It is located in the Financial District of Toronto at the corner of Bay and King. The building has a total of 2,000,000 square feet of office space with ground level retail and connections to the PATH. T
he underground shopping and foot traffic network in Toronto. The Tower was recently sold by it owners, the Bank of Nova Scotia to a group of investors headed by the H & R Reat Estate Investment Trust and Dundee Real Estate Managment.
Unique on thier Respective Skylines.
Scotiaplaza and SWFC are unique on their skylines, they are if not the tallest, the most unique designed tall towers in their cities and defining markers for the skyline. They are modern and have clean lines and have had their basic features copied in other towers worldwide.
Financial Capitals Unto Themselves.
Financial Centres Both towers function as the operations nerve centre for financial operations that span the globe, with Scotiabank being one of the biggest banking forces in Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America. The Towers themselves.
Shanghai World Financial Centre
from wikipedia
Scotiaplaza
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