CTBUH Silver Member

SWA Group

About

Member Since: 2010

Member Offices: Sausalito

Website: http://www.swagroup.com/

SWA is a world leader in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design. Professionally focused and employee-owned, its foremost passion is to create exceptional places for clients.

SWA works with large, multi-functional sites and small, intimate spaces, and is one of the few firms capable of creating high-profile projects at a large scale. Its designs and plans are customized for each client's aspirations—based on deep experience, technical knowledge, cutting-edge research, and ""big ideas.""

SWA's work is fueled by a deep appreciation for nature and the beauty of natural systems. SWA is also inspired by the complexity of human-made systems and the human interactions they influence. At SWA’s core is a passion for imaginative, solution-oriented design that adds value to land, buildings, cities, regions, and people’s lives.

Fields of Expertise

Landscape Architecture

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
2 Burj Khalifa

828 m

2,717 ft
4 Shanghai Tower

632 m

2,073 ft
5 Wuhan Greenland Center

475.6 m

1,560 ft
6 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 1

470 m

1,542 ft
9 The Exchange 106

453.6 m

1,488 ft
10 Zifeng Tower

450 m

1,476 ft
11 Wuhan Center Tower

443.1 m

1,454 ft
12 Greenland Shandong International Financial Center

428 m

1,404 ft
13 Minying International Trade Center T2

422.6 m

1,386 ft
14 Dabaihui Plaza

375.6 m

1,232 ft

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Jeddah Tower

1,000 m

3,281 ft
2 Burj Khalifa

828 m

2,717 ft
3 Wuhan Greenland Center

636 m

2,087 ft
4 Shanghai Tower

632 m

2,073 ft
5 Wuhan Greenland Center

475.6 m

1,560 ft
6 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 1

470 m

1,542 ft
7 Chengdu Greenland Tower

468 m

1,535 ft
8 R&F Guangdong Building

468 m

1,535 ft
9 The Exchange 106

453.6 m

1,488 ft
10 Zifeng Tower

450 m

1,476 ft
11 Wuhan Center Tower

443.1 m

1,454 ft
12 Greenland Shandong International Financial Center

428 m

1,404 ft
13 Minying International Trade Center T2

422.6 m

1,386 ft
14 Dabaihui Plaza

375.6 m

1,232 ft
15 China Merchants Prince Bay Tower

374 m

1,227 ft
16 Qingdao Hai Tian Center

368.9 m

1,210 ft
17 Greenland Group Suzhou Center

358 m

1,175 ft
18 OKO - Residential Tower

354.2 m

1,162 ft
19 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 4

349 m

1,145 ft
20 China World Tower

330 m

1,083 ft
21 Poly Pazhou C2

311 m

1,020 ft
22 Pearl River Tower

309.6 m

1,016 ft
23 Cayan Tower

306.4 m

1,005 ft
24 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, Parcel A

303 m

994 ft
24 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, Parcel B

303 m

994 ft
26 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 2

302.1 m

991 ft
27 Shenzhen Zhongzhou Holdings Financial Center

300.8 m

987 ft
28 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Zifeng Tower

268 m

879 ft
29 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 2

260 m

853 ft
30 Beijing Greenland Center

260 m

853 ft
31 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 3

251 m

823 ft
32 FKI Tower

245.5 m

805 ft
33 Haitian Center Tower 3

245 m

804 ft
34 Emaar Square The Address Hotel & Residences

244.6 m

802 ft
35 Kingtown International Center

231.2 m

759 ft
36 Kingold Century

228 m

748 ft
37 OKO - Office Tower

224.5 m

736 ft
38 Taikang Headquarters Building

223.4 m

733 ft
39 Haitian Center Tower 1

210 m

689 ft
40 Sequis Tower

206.3 m

677 ft
41 Sichuan Airlines Center

204 m

669 ft
42 Beijing Lize Ping An Finance Centre

199.9 m

656 ft
43 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 3

197.8 m

649 ft
44 Intercontinental Guangzhou Exhibition Center

197.5 m

648 ft
45 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 1

193.5 m

635 ft
46 Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 2

173 m

568 ft
47 Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 3

166 m

545 ft
48 Poly International Plaza – Dawangjing

161.2 m

529 ft
49 Sanya Horizons

160 m

525 ft
50 Shenzhen Zhongzhou Holdings Financial Center Tower B

157.6 m

517 ft
51 Emaar Square Heights Residences

157 m

515 ft
52 3001 John F Kennedy Boulevard

156.1 m

512 ft
53 One Palace

150.4 m

493 ft
54 Emaar Square Office Tower

142.1 m

466 ft
55 Azure

114.3 m

375 ft
56 3025 John F Kennedy Boulevard

110 m

361 ft
57 Landmark Two

106.4 m

349 ft
58 Poly Beijing Tongzhou Metropolitan North Tower

105.3 m

345 ft
58 Poly Beijing Tongzhou Metropolitan South Tower

105.3 m

345 ft
60 One Cardinal Way

101.8 m

334 ft
61 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 2

100 m

328 ft
61 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 3

100 m

328 ft
63 Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 1

100 m

328 ft
63 Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 2

100 m

328 ft
65 Tao Zhu Yin Yuan

93.2 m

306 ft
66 1200 Broadway

m

ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 26 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 8,677 other buildings of the same Residential function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
67 Pudong Financial Plaza L+Mall

74 m

243 ft
68 Emaar Square Residences A

70.2 m

230 ft
69 Emaar Square Residences B

69.6 m

228 ft
70 Emaar Square Residences D

62.2 m

204 ft
71 Emaar Square Residences C

m

ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 15 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 309 other buildings of the same Retail / Residential function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
72 Hsinchu High-Speed Rail Station TOD Tower 1

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73 Park Wellstate Nishiazabu

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74 Hsinchu High-Speed Rail Station TOD Tower 2

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CTBUH Initiatives Involving SWA Group

Nanjing Regional Tour Report: Redeveloping the "Southern Capital"

22–23 September 2012

Nanjing, the venerable “Southern capital,” is in the midst of the type of redevelopment surge impacting many Chinese cities.