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guangzhou Ctf finance Centre

he Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre Form follows function
(CTF Guangzhou) is a 530-meter-tall, The form of the CTF Guangzhou is derived
Tmixed-use tower located across from from its multiple uses. The building steps
the Guangzhou IFC and Canton Tower. The to accommodate the changing floor
project is adjacent to a large central park plates of the various program types and
and a subterranean retail concourse with also highlight the relationship between
transportation interchanges and will house the adjacent West Tower and TV Tower,
an unprecedented mix of programs: 208,000 the citys other two landmark super tall
square meters of office, 75,000 square meters structures. The CTFs chiseled setbacks are
of residential, and a 46,000 square meter also sculpted to acknowledge the various
hotel. A stepped podium with spiraling roof heights of the nearby towers and to provide
terraces will contain hotel ballroom and a crescendo on the citys ever-expanding
function space as well as 47,000 square skyline. The overall effect of the tower
meters of retail, restaurant and cinema is of a crystalline form ascending to the
program. At its daily peak, the project will sky. This formal vocabulary extends to the
accommodate more than 30,000 people. podium, which extends upwards from the

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