Wuhan Greenland Center

Wuhan Greenland Center is a 476 m tall skyscraper in Wuhan, China. The tower was originally planned to be 636 m, but it was redesigned mid-construction due to airspace regulations so its height does not exceed 500 m above ground level.

The building was designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in conjunction with Thornton Tomasetti Engineers won the design competition to build the tower for Greenland Group, a real estate developer owned by the Shanghai city government. Construction started in 2012 and had been put on-hold numerous times following the redesign in mid-2017 ranging from financial problems, to the COVID-19 pandemic. The building finally topped-out in late 2020 and was completed in 2022. The Wuhan Greenland Center is Central China's tallest building with a cost of US$ 4.5 billion, mostly due to the number of times it had been put on-hold.

Original design
The original plan for the building was to have it rise 636 m, surpassing the Shanghai Tower by only 14 feet and the Tokyo Skytree by 7 feet, making it the second tallest man-made structure in the world. The tower was also supposed to have 126 floors, the second most of any building in the world, as well. When the Wuhan Greenland Center reached its 96th floor, construction was halted due to airspace restrictions which led to its subsequent redesign to a 476 m building instead of a 636 m building. The Wuhan Greenland Center is currently the 14th tallest building in the world.

Timeline

 * 8 December 2010: Ceremony for construction held.
 * 1 July 2011: Overall construction started.
 * 28 June 2012: Started building underground reinforcement structure.
 * 12 September 2012: Started digging the base.
 * 26 June 2013: Base completed.
 * 4 January 2014: First steel beams installed.
 * 28 July 2014: Basement finished, above-ground construction started.
 * 30 December 2015: The building reached 200 m above ground.
 * April 2016: The building reached 245 m above ground and cladding has become visible.
 * June 2016: The building reached 300 m above ground.
 * 27 December 2016: The building reached 400 m above ground.
 * Mid 2017: Construction stalled at 101 floors and the subsequent redesign of the building
 * Late 2020: Wuhan Greenland Center tops out
 * Mid 2022: Wuhan Greenland Center is completed