WORLD RANK 03Structural engineer
Shanghai Tower 632 m ↗
Shanghai · China · Completed 2015
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER · 5 TOP-100 PROJECTS
Thornton Tomasetti
Thornton Tomasetti is credited for Shanghai Tower and Ping An’s structural designs, with curtain-wall peer review also identified at Shanghai. It is the structural designer of Jeddah Tower.
TALLEST PROJECTShanghai TowerView profile ↗
Top-100 buildings5
Roles credited1
First completion2015
Latest completion2023
PROJECTS & ROLES
Where Thornton Tomasetti is credited
Roles are recorded exactly as credited by the linked project source. A firm may hold several roles on one building.
WORLD RANK 05Structural engineer
Ping An Finance Centre 599.1 m ↗
Shenzhen · China · Completed 2017
WORLD RANK 14Structural engineer
Wuhan Greenland Center 475.6 m ↗
Wuhan · China · Completed 2023
WORLD RANK 51Structural engineer
30 Hudson Yards 387.1 m ↗
New York City · United States · Completed 2019
WORLD RANK 65Structural engineer
Federation Tower (East Tower) 373.7 m ↗
Moscow · Russia · Completed 2016
WHAT TO LOOK FOR
Reading their work
The completed projects illustrate two different design questions: reducing wind excitation through Shanghai’s form, and combining a core with super-columns and perimeter bracing at Ping An. Jeddah extends the comparison to an interconnected concrete-wall system.
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