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SWA Group

About

Member Since: 2010

Member Offices: Sausalito

Website: http://www.swagroup.com/

SWA is a world leader in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design. Professionally focused and employee-owned, its foremost passion is to create exceptional places for clients.

SWA works with large, multi-functional sites and small, intimate spaces, and is one of the few firms capable of creating high-profile projects at a large scale. Its designs and plans are customized for each client's aspirations—based on deep experience, technical knowledge, cutting-edge research, and ""big ideas.""

SWA's work is fueled by a deep appreciation for nature and the beauty of natural systems. SWA is also inspired by the complexity of human-made systems and the human interactions they influence. At SWA’s core is a passion for imaginative, solution-oriented design that adds value to land, buildings, cities, regions, and people’s lives.

Fields of Expertise

Landscape Architecture; Urban Design

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Jeddah Tower

1,000 m / 3,281 ft
2 Burj Khalifa

828 m / 2,717 ft
4 Shanghai Tower

632 m / 2,073 ft
5 Wuhan Greenland Center

476 m / 1,560 ft
6 Chengdu Greenland Tower

468 m / 1,535 ft
8 The Exchange 106

454 m / 1,488 ft
9 Zifeng Tower

450 m / 1,476 ft
10 Wuhan Center Tower

443 m / 1,454 ft
11 Greenland Shandong International Financial Center

428 m / 1,404 ft
12 Minying International Trade Center T2

423 m / 1,386 ft

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Jeddah Tower

1,000 m / 3,281 ft
2 Burj Khalifa

828 m / 2,717 ft
3 Wuhan Greenland Center

636 m / 2,087 ft
4 Shanghai Tower

632 m / 2,073 ft
5 Wuhan Greenland Center

476 m / 1,560 ft
6 Chengdu Greenland Tower

468 m / 1,535 ft
7 R&F Guangdong Building

468 m / 1,535 ft
8 The Exchange 106

454 m / 1,488 ft
9 Zifeng Tower

450 m / 1,476 ft
10 Wuhan Center Tower

443 m / 1,454 ft
11 Greenland Shandong International Financial Center

428 m / 1,404 ft
12 Minying International Trade Center T2

423 m / 1,386 ft
13 Dabaihui Plaza

376 m / 1,232 ft
14 China Merchants Prince Bay Tower

374 m / 1,227 ft
15 Qingdao Hai Tian Center

369 m / 1,210 ft
16 Greenland Group Suzhou Center

358 m / 1,175 ft
17 OKO - Residential Tower

354 m / 1,162 ft
18 China World Tower

330 m / 1,083 ft
19 Poly Pazhou C2

311 m / 1,020 ft
20 Pearl River Tower

309 m / 1,015 ft
21 Cayan Tower

306 m / 1,005 ft
22 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, Parcel A

303 m / 994 ft
22 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, Parcel B

303 m / 994 ft
24 Shenzhen Zhongzhou Holdings Financial Center

301 m / 987 ft
25 Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Zifeng Tower

268 m / 879 ft
26 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 2

260 m / 853 ft
27 Beijing Greenland Center

260 m / 853 ft
28 FKI Tower

245 m / 805 ft
29 Haitian Center Tower 3

245 m / 804 ft
30 Kingtown International Center

231 m / 759 ft
31 Emaar Square The Address Hotel & Residences

229 m / 753 ft
32 Kingold Century

228 m / 748 ft
33 OKO - Office Tower

224 m / 736 ft
34 Taikang Headquarters Building

223 m / 733 ft
35 Haitian Center Tower 1

210 m / 689 ft
36 Sequis Tower

206 m / 677 ft
37 Sichuan Airlines Center

204 m / 669 ft
38 Beijing Lize Ping An Finance Centre

200 m / 656 ft
39 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 3

198 m / 649 ft
40 Intercontinental Guangzhou Exhibition Center

198 m / 648 ft
41 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 1

194 m / 635 ft
42 Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 2

173 m / 568 ft
43 Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 3

166 m / 545 ft
44 Poly International Plaza – Dawangjing

161 m / 529 ft
45 Sanya Horizons

160 m / 525 ft
46 Shenzhen Zhongzhou Holdings Financial Center Tower B

158 m / 517 ft
47 Emaar Square Heights Residences

157 m / 515 ft
48 3001 John F Kennedy Boulevard

156 m / 512 ft
49 One Palace

146 m / 479 ft
50 Emaar Square Office Tower

142 m / 466 ft
51 Azure

114 m / 375 ft
52 3025 John F Kennedy Boulevard

110 m / 361 ft
53 Landmark Two

106 m / 349 ft
54 Poly Beijing Tongzhou Metropolitan North Tower

105 m / 345 ft
54 Poly Beijing Tongzhou Metropolitan South Tower

105 m / 345 ft
56 One Cardinal Way

102 m / 334 ft
57 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 2

100 m / 328 ft
57 Pudong Financial Plaza Office Tower 3

100 m / 328 ft
59 Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 1

100 m / 328 ft
59 Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 2

100 m / 328 ft
61 Tao Zhu Yin Yuan

93 m / 306 ft
62 1200 Broadway

89 m

292 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 26 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 8,559 other buildings of the same Residential function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
63 Pudong Financial Plaza L+Mall

74 m / 243 ft
64 Emaar Square Residences A

70 m / 230 ft
65 Emaar Square Residences B

70 m / 228 ft
66 Emaar Square Residences D

62 m / 204 ft
67 Emaar Square Residences C

54 m

177 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 15 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 305 other buildings of the same Retail / Residential function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
68 Park Wellstate Nishiazabu

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