HEFEI | Evergrande IFC | 518 M | 1699 FT | 112 FLOORS | ON HOLD

illegal · #1 Posted **Oct 5, 2016, 10:34 AM**

Skyscraper Center

SkyscraperPage Database

Architect: Atkins
Developer: Hengda Group

Rendering:

1X518 M | 1699 FT | 1X290 M | 951 FT | 1X260 M | 853 FT |

Current status:

by Zheng Derong

10.04.2016

The main tower plot:

Urbannizer · #2 Posted **Dec 1, 2017, 5:28 PM**

panjingcai

Zerton · #3 Posted **Dec 4, 2017, 8:07 PM**

Looks like bamboo.

JDRCRASH · #4 Posted **Dec 5, 2017, 2:31 AM**

^if you're referring to the scaffolding, I think it is.

Zerton · #5 Posted **Dec 5, 2017, 6:19 PM**

I meant the overall shape of the towers.

tdawg · #6 Posted **Dec 7, 2017, 9:34 PM**

Wow, just when I thought I'd caught up on all of China's major cities I'd never heard of before, along comes Hefei.

sterlippo1 · #7 Posted **Dec 7, 2017, 11:31 PM**

hideous , I'm sorry for being negative but Jesus, the entire complex is awful

kingkirbythe.... · #8 Posted **Dec 9, 2017, 2:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by tdawg

Wow, just when I thought I'd caught up on all of China's major cities I'd never heard of before, along comes Hefei.

Same here. Hefei?! Now I(we) know.

jd3189 · #9 Posted **Dec 9, 2017, 3:29 AM**

China pop ups a supertall like clockwork. And Heifei is not even in the top ten largest cities in the country.

GWN · #10 Posted **Mar 24, 2018, 1:23 PM**

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

https://i.imgur.com/kMFoem4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yWfgy7h.jpg

emathias · #11 Posted **Mar 30, 2018, 6:12 AM**

I visited Hefei in 2005. I actually really liked the original parts of the City, the part built around the "Fat River." While some of the new stuff then was ok, all this explosive new stuff seems to be pushing a weird sort of growth, even by Chinese standards. In my opinion.

Hefei is the capital of Anhui Province, which has a claim to fame mainly built around either Hefei's technical university, which is something along the lines of a Chinese Carnegie-Melon, or around the Yellow Mountain, aka Huangshan, a famously beautiful mountain and surrounding geological and natural park area.

illegal · #12 Posted **May 15, 2018, 2:42 PM**

ssc post

Quote:

Originally Posted by oscillation

by 吴戴卫 Wu Dawei

antoun · #13 Posted **Jul 13, 2018, 9:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by oscillation

The tower on the left is Baoneng project 588m, the last drawings. The threed here: https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1718641
The last drawings:

Evergrande 518m:

and the last updates:
by 吴戴卫 Wu Dai Wei

518 m main tower:

Dan888 · #14 Posted **Nov 11, 2018, 3:28 PM**

What's happening in China today is very much reminiscent of Dubai in 2006/07. Hope they plant it properly and with some thought for the overall impact these towers will have for the future generations.

BonoboZill4 · #15 Posted **Nov 12, 2018, 12:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dan888

What's happening in China today is very much reminiscent of Dubai in 2006/07. Hope they plant it properly and with some thought for the overall impact these towers will have for the future generations.

Well, China has been doing it sense before Dubai(if we include Hong Kong) and will keep going. It's like every city in China is on Dubai levels of construction craze. I guess that's what happens when you have 1.3 billion people haha

antinimby · #16 Posted **Nov 12, 2018, 1:50 AM**

And unlike Americans, Chinese people aren't bothered by tall buildings or density.

ATLksuGUY · #17 Posted **Nov 16, 2018, 11:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by antinimby

And unlike Americans, Chinese people aren't bothered by tall buildings or density.

But that's the thing, the density is not there in most of these projects.

The Best Forumer · #18 Posted **Mar 9, 2020, 3:59 PM**

so why is it on hold?

Drcastro · #19 Posted **Oct 28, 2020, 4:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by The Best Forumer

so why is it on hold?

Maybe this?
http://www.theb1m.com/video/why-china-banned-skyscrapers

Also, Covid and the general economic slowdown.

Urbannizer · #20 Posted **Sep 1, 2022, 2:04 AM**

July 2022

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-17/china-is-falling-out-of-love-with-skyscrapers

Quote:

Nothing ruins a Chinese neighborhood like a vacant skyscraper owned by a bankrupt real estate developer. But Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, has something worse: the first floors of a building intended to be one of the world's tallest. Its owner, cash-strapped China Evergrande Group, has suspended construction while it tries to avoid a default that would shake China's economy.

Even if Evergrande manages to dig itself out of its financial hole, the physical one will remain. Earlier this week, China's chief economic planning agency announced that it was severely restricting the construction of tall buildings to improve urban environments, while China's housing agency ordered developers to focus on low-rise residences. These are monumental shifts for China, which long prioritized the construction of tall buildings at the expense of safety, livability and affordable housing.

If the government follows through on its promises, the 518-meter (1,669-foot) Hefei tower will never rise. But a more livable urban China will.