New model, with updated second tower.
http://ww2.sinaimg.cn/large/4e4d8b53...20xc18gna8.jpg
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...postcount=1162

i am sure that ping an will be without doubt, the most beautifully executed and by far the most celebrated skyscraper in the world upon completion. it is sure to be a tower without equal. a rare and very special gem of a tower. if this tower is even one fifth as exquisite as that tower, well then it will be wonderful then wont it.

Any news on this one?

I like the model! :)

ON HOLD:

from SSC translated

China to build the tallest building in the center transferred SOUTH stoppage or a case of financial problems
At 7:14 on July 4, 2015 China Business News article Favorites

Quartz Jing

Recently, the first high-rise under construction in China, Suzhou 729 m high-rise - CENTRAL center project is transferred due to funding chain problems caused downtime.

Since the shutdown of the message conveyed SOUTH center out, "China Business" reporter in late June visit Su Hui Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, located on the north side of the construction site and found that the project site is surrounded by a plastic fence up, and other projects around the bustling construction different scene on the builder's rare to workers on the scene. As of press time, the reporter on the afternoon of July 2 came again SOUTH Center project, see the project through the narrow side of the door reporters, after several days of heavy rain baptism, the project site muddy, next to the reporter and the site After the security conversation learned that the project has been a long time in this state, after the foundations, virtually no mass start over.

Broad Sustainable Buildings, the company behind the Sky City proposal, released a design for a Zhongnan Center tower. Not sure if vision or actual proposal for the site.

http://www.broad.com/Storage/uploads...54218_9343.jpg

http://www.broad.com/Storage/uploads...54332_6444.jpg
http://www.broad.com/ProductShow-86.aspx

From Wikipedia, I see this thing still hasn't started above ground construction. Maybe it is stuck with something.
Anyhow, I think the project is more likely to be cancelled, and I'm a fan of this building, so I am pretty worried about it.
On the other hand, I like the new design of this project, but at the same time, I think the old design is much better. MUCH MUCH better. It also makes some resemblance to the Sky City to me.
I have great hope that this building can get rid of the things making it on hold, and continue to rise among the Suzhou skyline.

What is that building east of Suzhou Zhongnan Center and behind The Pants?

There was always proposed to be some sort of twin building to this tower on that lot.
Here's an earlier version of the site plan. I think it's still a place holder for now.

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/g...1335954122.jpg

729m is almost as tall as Burj Khalifa. And I'm sure most westeners haven't even heard about Suzhou. This tower will make the arch building looks like a dwarf!

Most people haven't heard of it because it is an adjacent city like Wuxi to the huge metropolis of Shanghai. Most westerners just consider it part of the greater Shanghai city since there is no real division between these huge cities.

A beautiful building, and yes it will most definitely overshadow the much smaller 302M/990ft Gate of the Orient.

I just visited Wuxi, Suzhou and Shanghai. Great cities, all of them (I had visited Shanghai before). Wuxi was an unexpected pleasant surprise. Suzhou has fantastic gardens (I liked the Lion Forest/Grove Garden best of all).

Is This still on hold, or is it dead? This one was exciting.

this is now the at the nationally permitted height limit of 499m and is Under constrcution.

source:

mkw1234 on Gaoloumi, via SSC

https://i.imgur.com/Dsq80IG.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/N23m6vs.jpg

Thanks. Would like some new renderings.

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https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/bui...n-center/38347

https://images.skyscrapercenter.com/...819-030851.jpg

https://images.skyscrapercenter.com/...6942460617.jpg

https://images.skyscrapercenter.com/...819-030852.jpg

^ Still a great height, but I like the pointy version better. It looks like they gave up at the top.

Time to change the thread title.

Any new images on this?

According to Wikipedia's List of tallest residential buildings, this will surpass NYC's Central Park Tower to become the tallest residential building in the world, using CTBUH's definition of "a residential building as one where 85 percent or more of its total floor area is dedicated to residential usage".