Tomorrow Square

Tomorrow Square
Tomorrow Square
明天广场
	Tomorrow Square in April 2026
	Interactive map of the Tomorrow Square area
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office, hotel, restaurant, apartments
Location	Huangpu District,; Shanghai, China
Coordinates	31°13′55″N 121°27′54″E / 31.232°N 121.465°E
Construction started	1997
Completed	2003
Height
Antenna spire	285 m (935 ft)
Roof	238 m (781 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	63
Floor area	130,063 m2 (1,399,990 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	15
Design and construction
Architects	John Portman & Associates
Website
	JW Marriott Shanghai

Tomorrow Square (simplified Chinese: 明天广场; traditional Chinese: 明天廣場; pinyin: Míngtiān Guǎngchǎng) is the twelfth-tallest building in Shanghai, China. It is located in Huangpu District, Puxi,^[2] close to People's Square. It is about 285 m (934 ft) tall and has 55 floors.^[1]

This multi-purpose building contains a 342-room JW Marriott hotel,^[2] and 255 executive apartment units. The base includes a conference center, shopping center, and subway access.^[1] It was completed on 1 October 2003. The hotel's foyer is on the 38th floor.^[3] The building holds the record for the highest library in a building in the world, located on the 60th floor.^[4]

Architecturally, Tomorrow Square is made up of two prisms, the second which is offset diagonally from the first, marking the transition from the apartment section to the hotel.^[2]^[1] The top terminates in a peak composed of four triangles.^[1] To make the exterior vertical support system work, engineers chose flat slabs for the hotel floors and beam and slab construction for the office floors. A combination of shear walls and frame action stabilizes the slender tower laterally against wind and earthquake forces. The foundations are 80-meter (260 ft)-long bored piles supporting a column mat.

References

1 2 3 4 5 Al-Kodmany, Kheir (17 February 2017). "Tall Buildings and Imageability". Understanding Tall Buildings: A Theory of Placemaking. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-60865-3.
1 2 3 Binder, Georges (2006). "Tomorrow Square". 101 of the World's Tallest Buildings. Images Publishing. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-86470-173-9.
↑ "Tomorrow Square". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
↑ "Highest library in a building". Guinnessworldrecords. Retrieved 28 August 2026.

External links

JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai
Marriott Executive Apartments
"Tomorrow Square". CVU Skyscraper Center.
"Emporis building ID 131104". Emporis. Archived from the original on November 16, 2021.
"Tomorrow Square". SkyscraperPage.

[alkodmany-1] 1 2 3 4 5 Al-Kodmany, Kheir (17 February 2017). "Tall Buildings and Imageability". Understanding Tall Buildings: A Theory of Placemaking. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-60865-3.

[binder-2] 1 2 3 Binder, Georges (2006). "Tomorrow Square". 101 of the World's Tallest Buildings. Images Publishing. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-86470-173-9.

[3] "Tomorrow Square". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 28 August 2026.

[4] "Highest library in a building". Guinnessworldrecords. Retrieved 28 August 2026.

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