Sunday, June 22, 2008

ASSIGMENT 2 (TENGKU MARDIAH)


The Jin Moa Building is located in Shang Hai, China. The architect was Skidmore, Owings, and Merril. The Jin Moa building was built between 1993-1998. The Jin Moa Building was completion in 1998. It is very tall skyscraper with 421 metres high, contains 93 storey, floor area 278,707 metres2, and Pagoda shape. The Jin Moa Building fifth tallest in the world by roof height and the seventh tallest by pinnacle height.The building is made of steel and concrete. The building employs an advanced structural engineering system which fortifies it against typhoon winds of up to 200 km/h (with the top swaying by a maximum of 75 cm) and earthquekers of up to 7 on the Ricther scale. The style of the building is modern. Other information about building is the building has 3 main entraces to the lobby, two the office portion and one for the hotel. Additionally, a 6-story podium at the tower base houses the Hyatt's conference and banquet facilities (first two floors) as well as a shopping mall, restaurants and nightclub. Furthermore, in film and video the building, and the hotel inside, including the fomous atrium, were feartured in the futuristic film film Code (2003) and video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, and Double Agent.

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