|  | Oriental Pearl Tower
东方明珠电视塔
| Status: | | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1990 | | Finished | 1994 | | Floor Count | 14 | | Basement Floors | 2 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - communication | | - conference | | - hotel | | - observation | | - restaurant | | - retail | | Structural Types | | - tower | | - pod | | - revolving floor | | - sphere | | - stilts | | Architectural Style | | - futurism | | Materials | | - glass | | - steel | | - concrete, reinforced | | - concrete |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Antenna | | 1535 ft | | | | | | | | | | Top floor | | 1148 ft | | | | | floor of indoor space module | | | | | Restaurant | | 876 ft | | | | | | | | | | Sightseeing | | 863 ft | | | | | | | | | | Lowest observation | | 295 ft | | | | | Space City | | | | | Foundation | | -59 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
• Architect: Shanghai Modern Architectural Design Co. Ltd.
• Owner: Shanghai Oriental Group Co. Ltd., C & K
• Incorporation: Shanghai Xinhua Fire Inhibitor Factory
• Elevators: Otis Elevator (China) Investment Co. Ltd.
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• Its design is based on a Tan dynasty poem about the haunting sound made by a lute.
• The three columns between the two largest spheres are 9 meters in diameter, and the big spheres are 45 meters (upper) and 50 meters (lower) in diameter. The smallest sphere at the top is 14m in diameter.
• The tower has three observatory levels:
1. Space Module: The highest is at 350 metres.
2. Sightseeing Floor between 263 and 259 metres.
3. Space City: The lowest at 90 metres.
• Pearl Oriental TV Tower operates a 20-room hotel called the Space Hotel, located in the five smaller spheres between the two biggest ones up the center of the tower.
• Asia's tallest TV tower, and the third tallest in the world.
• Member of "World Federation of Great Towers".
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