Oriental Pearl Tower

The Oriental Pearl Tower (Chinese东方 明珠 塔/东方 明珠 塔, Pinyin Dongfang Míngzhūtǎ, Pearl of the East ') is in the Pudong district of Shanghai and is at an altitude of 468 meters of the currently the third highest TV tower in Asia and the fifth highest in the world. Until the completion of the Shanghai World Financial Center, he was also the tallest building in China at all. Its unique construction of eleven balls of various sizes at different heights, which are supported by pillars, has become one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city of Shanghai. The tower is at the top Lujiazuis on the banks of the Huangpu Jiang. In the base of the tower is a museum depicting the history of the city of Shanghai.

History

The TV Tower was designed by architect Jia Huan Cheng and Shanghai Modern Architectural Design Co. Ltd.. designed. The construction was started in 1991, after three years, the construction work had been completed. On 1 January 1995, the inauguration took place. The tower is visited by two to three million tourists. On the 7th of July 2007 at the Oriental Pearl Tower is one of the eleven Live Earth concerts.

Description

The constructed as a vertical cantilever tower is dominated by three bullets, which are located at 90 meters above sea level and at the end of the lower stem. The lower ball ( with open-air deck ) has a diameter of 50 meters, the upper 45 meters. Above this sphere, the building sets with a narrow heel is continuing, at the head of another smaller ball sits in which is the highest observation deck at 342 meters. Because the 118 -meter high antenna completes the TV tower.

The two larger spheres are connected by three 9 feet in diameter measured columns. Between the columns more balls (14 m diameter) are attached. The shaft is supported by three straddling the outside and underground anchored pillars, which also balls. The five smaller spheres house the Space Hotel with a total of 20 rooms. Overall, the Oriental Pearl Tower has eleven balls of different diameters. The largest three main spheres are silver with some reddish coating. The smaller balls are silver.

The maximum structural wind load is 600 km / h Six elevators with a capacity of up to 30 people, visitors to the observation platforms (90, 263 and 342 m) or the revolving restaurant (267 m) transport height. The ride to the observation deck at 263 meters is 45 seconds. Five of these elevators run in the three pillars that make up the tower shaft. An elevator goes to the top viewing platform, which is named Space Cabin. In addition to a restaurant, the middle platform houses a teahouse and offers in the largest hall can accommodate up to 1600 people. At night, the tower with a specially equipped lighting system is colorful irradiated. The design of the tower is based on a poem by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The poem is about the sound of a pipa, reminiscent of the fall of beads on a sheet of jade. Viewed from afar act the pylons and struts of the Yangpu and Nanpubrücke over the Huangpu Jiang as two great -border Chinese dragons playing with pearls.

Use

In addition to the tourist attraction as a lookout of the Oriental Pearl Tower is used to transfer nine television and ten radio channels. He is visited by more than 3 million tourists a year.

Pearl Tower seen from the federal government from

Pudong with Pearl Tower at night

Oriental Pearl Tower by Huangpu River