Pearl River Tower (珠江城大厦) is a 71-story, 309.6 m (1,016 ft),[5] clean technology neofuturistic skyscraper at the junction of Jinsui Road/Zhujiang Avenue West, Tianhe, Guangzhou, China.

The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Adrian D. Smith and Gordon Gill (now at their own firm, AS+GG) as architects.

[7] The design of the Pearl River Tower is intended to minimise harm to the environment and it will extract energy from the natural and passive forces surrounding the building.

[8] Major accomplishments are the technological integration of form and function in a holistic approach to engineering and architectural design.

[9] There were four steps in the approach to the Pearl River Tower's high-performance design: reduction, absorption, reclamation, and generation.

Generation – This final stage works to achieve the objective of being a zero-energy building by creating sufficient energy on-site through the use of microturbines.

To achieve this goal, the Pearl River Tower was built to direct incoming wind into vents that lead to its turbines.

Explicitly sculpted to guide wind into the turbines, this 71-story building[13] works to ensure there is almost always clean energy being generated.

As the heat increases to higher temperatures in the warmer months, the radiant ceiling system works to cool the office spaces.

[15] The Pearl River Tower has advanced double glazing that allows natural light to enter the building.

This adds to the tower's already considerable power-saving capabilities caused by the wind and solar power used in other parts of the building.

However the local power company in Guangzhou does not allow independent energy producers to sell electricity back to the grid.