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; Urban Design

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
1 Jeddah Tower

1,000 m

3,281 ft
2 Burj Khalifa

828 m

2,717 ft
4 Shanghai Tower

632 m

2,073 ft
6 Chengdu Greenland Tower

468 m

1,535 ft
8 Zifeng Tower

450 m

1,476 ft
9 The Exchange 106

445.1 m

1,460 ft
10 Wuhan Center Tower

438 m

1,437 ft
11 Dongguan International Trade Center 1

426.9 m

1,401 ft
12 Shenzhen Center

375.6 m

1,232 ft
13 Greenland Group Suzhou Center

358 m

1,175 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 Chengdu Greenland Tower

468 m

1,535 ft
7 R&F Guangdong Building

468 m

1,535 ft
8 Zifeng Tower

450 m

1,476 ft
9 The Exchange 106

445.1 m

1,460 ft
10 Wuhan Center Tower

438 m

1,437 ft
11 Dongguan International Trade Center 1

426.9 m

1,401 ft
12 Shenzhen Center

375.6 m

1,232 ft
13 Greenland Group Suzhou Center

358 m

1,175 ft
14 OKO - Residential Tower

354.2 m

1,162 ft
15 China World Tower

330 m

1,083 ft
16 Pearl River Tower

309.4 m

1,015 ft
17 Cayan Tower

306.4 m

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

303 m

994 ft
18 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, Parcel B

303 m

994 ft
20 Shenzhen Zhongzhou Holdings Financial Center

300.8 m

987 ft
21 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Zifeng Tower

268 m

879 ft
22 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 2

260 m

853 ft
23 Beijing Greenland Center

260 m

853 ft
24 FKI Tower

245.5 m

805 ft
25 Kingtown International Center

231.2 m

759 ft
26 Emaar Square The Address Hotel & Residences

229.4 m

753 ft
27 Kingold Century

228 m

748 ft
28 OKO - Office Tower

224.5 m

736 ft
29 Sequis Tower

206.3 m

677 ft
30 Sichuan Airlines Center

204 m

669 ft
31 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 3

197.8 m

649 ft
32 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 1

193.5 m

635 ft
33 Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 2

173 m

568 ft
34 Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 3

166 m

545 ft
35 Poly International Plaza – Dawangjing

161.2 m

529 ft
36 Shenzhen Zhongzhou Holdings Financial Center Tower B

157.6 m

517 ft
37 Emaar Square Heights Residences

157 m

515 ft
38 3001 John F Kennedy Boulevard

156.1 m

512 ft
39 One Palace

146 m

479 ft
40 Emaar Square Office Tower

142.1 m

466 ft
41 Azure

114.3 m

375 ft
42 3025 John F Kennedy Boulevard

110 m

361 ft
43 One Cardinal Way

101.8 m

334 ft
44 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 2

100 m

328 ft
44 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 3

100 m

328 ft
46 Golden Dream Bay

100 m

328 ft
47 Tao Zhu Yin Yuan

93.2 m

306 ft
48 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 7,528 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.
49 Pudong Financial Plaza L+Mall

74 m

243 ft
50 Emaar Square Residences A

70.2 m

230 ft
51 Emaar Square Residences B

69.6 m

228 ft
52 Emaar Square Residences D

62.2 m

204 ft
53 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 290 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.

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.