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 Tianfu Center

489 m / 1,604 ft
6 Wuhan Greenland Center

476 m / 1,560 ft
7 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 1

470 m / 1,542 ft
10 Zifeng Tower

450 m / 1,476 ft
11 The Exchange 106

445 m / 1,462 ft
12 Wuhan Tower

443 m / 1,454 ft
13 Greenland Shandong International Financial Center

428 m / 1,404 ft
14 Minying International Trade Center T2

423 m / 1,386 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 Tianfu Center

489 m / 1,604 ft
6 Wuhan Greenland Center

476 m / 1,560 ft
7 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 1

470 m / 1,542 ft
8 Chengdu Greenland Tower

468 m / 1,535 ft
9 R&F Guangdong Building

468 m / 1,535 ft
10 Zifeng Tower

450 m / 1,476 ft
11 The Exchange 106

445 m / 1,462 ft
12 Wuhan Tower

443 m / 1,454 ft
13 Greenland Shandong International Financial Center

428 m / 1,404 ft
14 Minying International Trade Center T2

423 m / 1,386 ft
15 Dabaihui Plaza

376 m / 1,232 ft
16 China Merchants Prince Bay Tower

374 m / 1,227 ft
17 Qingdao Hai Tian Center

369 m / 1,210 ft
18 Greenland Group Suzhou Center

358 m / 1,175 ft
19 OKO - Residential Tower

354 m / 1,162 ft
20 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 4

349 m / 1,145 ft
21 China World Tower

330 m / 1,083 ft
22 Poly Pazhou C2

311 m / 1,020 ft
23 Pearl River Tower

310 m / 1,016 ft
24 Cayan Tower

306 m / 1,005 ft
25 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, Parcel A

303 m / 994 ft
25 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, Parcel B

303 m / 994 ft
27 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 2

302 m / 991 ft
28 Shenzhen Zhongzhou Holdings Financial Center

301 m / 987 ft
29 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Zifeng Tower

268 m / 879 ft
30 Fubon Life Insurance Building

266 m / 871 ft
31 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 2

260 m / 853 ft
32 Beijing Greenland Center

260 m / 853 ft
33 SUNAC A-ONE Tower 3

251 m / 823 ft
34 FKI Tower

245 m / 805 ft
35 Haitian Center Tower 3

245 m / 804 ft
36 Emaar Square The Address Hotel & Residences

245 m / 802 ft
37 Kingtown International Center

231 m / 759 ft
38 Kingold Century

228 m / 748 ft
39 OKO - Office Tower

224 m / 736 ft
40 Taikang Headquarters Building

223 m / 733 ft
41 Haitian Center Tower 1

210 m / 689 ft
42 Ningbo Guohua Financial Tower

206 m / 677 ft
43 Sequis Tower

206 m / 677 ft
44 Sichuan Airlines Center

204 m / 669 ft
45 Beijing Lize Ping An Finance Centre

200 m / 656 ft
46 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 3

198 m / 649 ft
47 Intercontinental Guangzhou Exhibition Center

198 m / 648 ft
48 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 1

194 m / 635 ft
49 Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 2

173 m / 568 ft
50 Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 3

166 m / 545 ft
51 Poly International Plaza – Dawangjing

161 m / 529 ft
52 Sanya Horizons

160 m / 525 ft
53 Shenzhen Zhongzhou Holdings Financial Center Tower B

158 m / 517 ft
54 Emaar Square Heights Residences

157 m / 515 ft
55 3001 John F Kennedy Boulevard

156 m / 512 ft
56 One Palace

150 m / 493 ft
57 Emaar Square Office Tower

142 m / 466 ft
58 Azure

114 m / 375 ft
59 3025 JFK

113 m / 371 ft
60 Landmark Two

106 m / 349 ft
61 Poly Beijing Tongzhou Metropolitan North Tower

105 m / 345 ft
61 Poly Beijing Tongzhou Metropolitan South Tower

105 m / 345 ft
63 One Cardinal Way

102 m / 334 ft
64 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 2

100 m / 328 ft
64 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 3

100 m / 328 ft
66 Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 1

100 m / 328 ft
66 Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 2

100 m / 328 ft
68 Tao Zhu Yin Yuan

93 m / 306 ft
69 1200 Broadway

89 m

292 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 26 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 9,435 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.
70 Pudong Financial Plaza L+Mall

74 m / 243 ft
71 Emaar Square Residences A

70 m / 230 ft
72 Highsun Group Fuzhou Headquarters

70 m / 229 ft
73 Emaar Square Residences B

70 m / 228 ft
74 Al Wasl Plaza Dome

67 m / 221 ft
75 Yintech Financial Center

63 m / 207 ft
76 Emaar Square Residences D

62 m / 204 ft
77 Rove Expo City North Tower

55 m / 180 ft
77 Rove Expo City South Tower

55 m / 180 ft
79 Emaar Square Residences C

54 m

177 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 15 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 331 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.
80 Al Wasl Plaza Building 1

50 m / 163 ft
80 Al Wasl Plaza Building 3/10

50 m / 163 ft
80 Al Wasl Plaza Building 5

50 m / 163 ft
83 Hsinchu High-Speed Rail Station TOD Tower 1

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84 Park Wellstate Nishiazabu

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85 Hsinchu High-Speed Rail Station TOD Tower 2

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86 Bay Opera of Shenzhen

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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.