Guangzhou East Tower Chow Tai Fook Centre 周大福商业中心 The Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre (simplified Chinese: 广州周大福金融中心; traditional Chinese: 廣州周大福金融中心; pinyin: Guǎngzhōu zhōudàfú jīnróng zhōngxīn), also called East Tower, is a 530-metre (1,739 ft) mixed-use supertall skyscraper in Guangzhou, Guangdong, which was completed in October 2016.

[6] In that neighborhood, the skyscraper is located east of the central axis with an underground mall and connections to public transportation underneath it.

[7][9] The Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is owned by Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, and houses the world's fastest elevators, which can reach speeds up to 21 m/s (69 ft/s).

The skyscraper has a total of four levels of steel outriggers and six sets of double-layer belt trusses.

[14] They are thicker than usual to meet the Chinese seismic codes and they are supported by a mat and pad foundation.

[8] More standard metal mullions would have created this effect as well, but architect Forth Bagley, who lead the design, said in an interview with CNN they had chosen consciously for terracotta "to inject into the architecture an indigenous craft, that was specific to Guangzhou as a city.

[19] The below ground floors and the podium of the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre feature a shopping mall and an underground parking facility with 1,705 spaces.

[20] It features a 4DX theater with eight rooms and occupies the entire eight-floor podium and two below ground floors.

[6] The base of the actual skyscraper is occupied by the office lobby, the entrance hall of the apartments and a part of the hotel.

[8] The Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is connected to other nearby buildings through outdoor pedestrian bridges and to subway lines 3, 5, and APM through underground links.

In 2014, Hitachi announced that those two elevators would be able to reach 1,200 m/min (3,900 ft/min) and would carry passengers through the 440 m (1,450 ft) long shaft from the first to the 95th floor in approximately 43 seconds.

[30] To achieve their top speed, the elevators in the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre use permanent magnet synchronous motors.

[5] The air pressure is adjusted in order to prevent ear blockages and the elevators have rollers to smoothen the ride.

[8] The Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre was first meant to be similar to the Guangzhou International Finance Center, that is situated on the other side of the central axis of Zhujiang New Town, but it was decided to make the new skyscraper taller and to give it a different shape.

The American firm Kohn Pedersen Fox won the competition in 2009 and thus became the main architect.

[8] The Guangzhou Design Institute and Leigh & Orange became the architects of record and the British Arup Group was chosen to engineer the building.

[2][3][33] The Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre was topped out in July 2014 and the cladding was finished by the end of 2015.