Introduction to Canton Tower

Introduction to Canton Tower

Canton Tower is located at the intersection of the new central axis of Guangzhou city and the Pearl River landscape axis. As the first sightseeing tower in China and the third in the world, Canton Tower shows the world its rapid development. Guangzhou, challenge yourself and face the world with vision and courage. The following is an introduction to Canton Tower that I compiled for you. You are welcome to share it.

Introduction:

Canton Tower is the landmark of Guangzhou. It is 600 meters high and is the tallest tower in China. It can overlook the panoramic view of Guangzhou.

Its head and tail are equal, and its waist is slim and slender. It is also known as the "small waist". The lights will be on at night. Even if you are not visiting the tower, you can still come here to take pictures of its appearance.

Including the Ferris Wheel, Pearl River Photography Observation Platform, Spider-Man Plank Road and other attractions, most of which focus on scenic photography.

Generally, you can reach the top of the TV tower between 4:30 and 5:00 to watch the sunset and night view.

Telephone

4006-051-222

Website

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Transportation

Subway: Take APM Line or Line 3 to Canton Tower Metro Station, which is within walking distance;

Bus: Take Line 11, 262, 468, or Tourism Line 1 to Guangzhou Tower West Station , it can be reached on foot;

Tram: Take the Haizhu tram to Canton Tower Station, and it can be reached on foot.

Tickets

433-meter white cloud starry sky sightseeing ticket: adult ticket 150 RMB; discount ticket 75 RMB; child ticket 75 RMB.

450-meter tower top amusement package: adult ticket 228 RMB; discount ticket 175 RMB; child ticket 114 RMB.

460-meter Ferris wheel amusement package: adult ticket 298 RMB; discount ticket 255 RMB; child ticket 149 RMB.

488-meter One Tower Alluring Entertainment Package: Adult ticket is RMB 398; discount ticket is RMB 355; child ticket is RMB 199.

480-meter speedy cloud ride package: adult ticket 268 RMB; discount ticket 225 RMB; child ticket 134 RMB

Half-ticket: half-ticket discount for children between 1.2 meters and 1.5 meters;

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Free tickets: Children 6 years old and below or 1.2 meters and below are free of charge (each non-free ticket adult is limited to one free child).

Opening hours

09:30-22:30

(Stop ticket sales time: 22:00; Stop admission time: 22:00 (January 1st - December 31st (Monday to Sunday)

Ferris wheel: 10:00-22:30; every Monday: 15:00-22:30; the last Monday of each month: 17:00 -22:30.

Speedy Sky: 10:00-22:30; every Monday: 12:00-22:30; the last Monday of each month: 17:00-22:30. p>

Canton Tower implements time-scheduled sightseeing tours, and tickets are divided into two hours. The entry times are: 09:30, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, and 20:00

Canton Tower is located in the center of Guangzhou, at the intersection of the city’s new central axis and the Pearl River Landscape Axis, across the river from Haixinsha Island and Guangzhou’s 21st Century CBD District Zhujiang New Town. The tallest tower in China and the third tallest tower in the world. It is built on Yuejiang West Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, 125 meters away from the south bank of the Pearl River, across the river from Haixinsha Island and Zhujiang New Town. It is a tourist-oriented, cultural and entertainment tower. A large-scale urban infrastructure with the function of a city window

1. Spider-Man Plank Road

Walk among the white clouds along the 1024-level ladder that rises into the sky, allowing you to walk high in the sky like Spider-Man. A magical experience. The fully transparent hollow glass floor brings you an extraordinary and exciting experience, giving you the magical experience of walking high in the sky like a spider.

2. Ferris wheel

Global. The tallest horizontal Ferris wheel, enjoy the 360-degree ultimate view of the pearly water, and invite you to witness the romantic urban fairy tale of the Ferris wheel.

The Ferris wheel has 16 "crystal" sightseeing capsules that slowly rotate around the top of the inclined oval tower. The panoramic view of Guangzhou and the bright night are at your fingertips.

3. Downhill experience

The Canton Tower downhill seat is 150 meters higher than the previous world’s tallest jumping machine in the Las Vegas amusement park, which is more than 300 meters high. Mi is the heart-beating choice for real super braves to challenge the extreme heights and experience exciting amusement rides! Free fall for 30 meters at an altitude of 484 meters, bringing the ultimate crazy fun experience and challenging your psychological limits!

4.488-meter photography viewing platform

The viewing platform at the top of the tower is enough Half a football field is spacious, looking to the sky and south to Nansha Development Zone, Hong Kong and Macau. Looking north to Baiyun Mountain, you can have a panoramic view of the world and feel proud. The well-proportioned platform design can also be used for wedding celebrations or corporate cocktail parties.

5. Telescopes

Five new telescopes with interactive functions are installed on the 107th and 108th floors of the Canton Tower, bringing visitors a real-time interactive viewing experience. Visitors can choose the preset mode or real-time mode according to their preferences, control the zoom in and out buttons, and watch the beautiful scenery of Guangzhou City through the telescope screen. Dynamic data will display relevant information about the location instantly upon touching the screen, which is convenient and fast.

Architectural design

Layout

Canton Tower The overall layout of Canton Tower fully considers the surrounding environment of the site. Since the east side of the site is a residential area, the main tower is arranged on the north side of the site, close to the Pearl River and Binjiang Road, which reduces the interaction between its tall volume and surrounding buildings and forms a complete green square and underground space in the south. A large irregular elevated platform is used around the main tower. The gentle slope extends to the green square in the south and crosses Binjiang Road in the north. It forms a water-friendly platform with the Pearl River through the transition of green steps, seamlessly connecting the riverside landscape belt and expanding the green area of ??the square. Along the steel structure grid outer frame tube ring beam at the top of the tower, there are also 16 sightseeing pods, the highest in the world, which can provide a 360° high-altitude bird's-eye view of Guangzhou and even the Pearl River Delta.

Area

The construction land area of ??Canton Tower is 175,460 square meters, the road area is 42,160 square meters, the total construction area is 114,054 square meters, the tower construction area is 44,276 square meters, and the basement building is 69,779 square meters.

Tower height

Canton Tower is composed of a reinforced concrete inner core tube and a steel structure outer frame tube, as well as the combined floors connecting the two. The core tube height is 454m, ***112 Floor [30], the standard floor height is 5.2m; there are 37 floors, the rest are hollow floors, and there are 2 underground floors. The 37th floor is divided into five functional sections A to E along the entire height of the tower according to functional levels. The total construction area is 121,788 square meters. The steel structure grid outer frame tube is composed of 24 steel tube concrete diagonal columns and 46 sets of ring beams and steel tube diagonal braces. The highest elevation is 462.70m. The antenna mast composed of steel lattice structure and box section is 146 meters high, with the highest elevation reaching 600 meters. The outer frame tube uses more than 40,000 tons of steel, and the total steel consumption is about 60,000 tons. As a landmark building in Guangzhou, it stands on the south bank of the Pearl River on the central axis. It is the tallest tower-masted building in China and the tallest built in the world.

Body shape

Canton Tower has a single body shape. The main tower body is a towering structure. The appearance of all sides is basically the same height and the plane is oval. Its shape is simple, unified and clear-cut, with the entire tower spiraling upward. The tower body is small on the whole and large on the bottom. The denser sections in the waist of the building can provide a relatively private experience. The more open structure on the top creates a transparent effect for observation.

The two elliptical twists of the upper and lower parts of the Canton Tower shrink and become thinner at the waist. The contrast between the area of ??the thinnest part in the middle and the base and top is prominent. The lattice structure is relatively loose at the bottom and denser up to the waist. The waist is tightened and fixed, and then the lattice structure is released upwards and is supported by gradually tapering tubular structural columns. Planar dimensions and structural density are controlled by two ovals that control the structural design, which simultaneously generate a range of different effects. The entire tower body will not have the same shape when viewed from different directions.

Tower body

Tower body The final design of the Guangzhou Tower tower body is an oval gradient grid structure. Its shape, space and structure are composed of two upward rotating oval steel plates. The shell changes are generated, one on the base plane and one on the imaginary 450-meter-high plane, two ellipses twisted 135 degrees to each other, and the two ellipses twist and shrink at the waist. The overall network of air leakage holes in the tower body can effectively reduce the bulkiness of the tower body and wind load. The tower body adopts a special first-class earthquake-resistant design, which can withstand earthquakes with an intensity of 7.8 and typhoons with a magnitude of 12. The designed service life is more than 100 years.

The external steel structure system of Canton Tower is composed of 24 upright columns, diagonal braces and circular rings. The columns are equally spaced and arranged in a ring.

The body of the Canton Tower changes in size from bottom to top. Among them, the diameter of the ellipse at the bottom is about 60 meters × 80 meters, and the aspect ratio is 7.5; the diameter of the ellipse at the thinnest part in the middle is about 30 meters, and the aspect ratio is 7.3. The diameter of the upper ellipse is approximately 40.5 meters x 54 meters. The 24 columns are spaced at equal intervals and are coordinated and unified.

The whole body of the Canton Tower adopts a large number of mesh air leakage holes and is equipped with special transparent glass leakage windows. The scenery is formed by twisting two ellipsoids with a small top and a large bottom. The external steel structure system consists of 24 columns. , diagonal braces and rings intersect. [12]

The whole facade of Guangzhou Tower is contrasted with different proportions to enhance the overall image of the facade. Detail processing must be based on the overall view. Since the middle part of the tower is high, it is inconvenient to observe details with the naked eye, but the most detailed part in the middle of the appearance gives people a prominent feeling. In addition, since the Guangzhou New TV Tower is located in the aircraft turning area, according to regulations, aircraft there cannot have obstacles within 300 meters of the route location. The flight altitude of the aircraft above the new TV Tower is 900 meters above sea level. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of aircraft flight , the tower top antenna has also been detailed. It has now been withdrawn 10 meters from the tower top antenna, and the final height is 600 meters.

Architectural Features

Canton Tower The entire tower body of Canton Tower is a hollow steel structure frame. The 24 steel columns twist counterclockwise from bottom to top, and the cross-section of each component is changing. . The columns, beams and diagonal braces of the steel structure outer frame tube are all in a three-dimensional tilt state. In addition, the twisted steel structure outer frame tube is thick at the top and bottom and thin in the middle. This is very important for the processing, production, installation, construction measurement and deformation control of steel structure parts. All bring challenges. The outer frame tube of the steel structure alone has 24 steel columns, 46 sets of ring beams, and 1104 different diagonal braces. Due to the material difference between the concrete core tube in the middle of the Canton Tower and the outer frame tube of the steel structure, the settlements of the floor beams and the outer frame tube are inconsistent. In order to adjust the correctness of the relative position of the steel components and the main structure, many nodes control the accuracy of the relative position of the steel column body through three-dimensional coordinates.

Energy saving and environmental protection

Through the application and implementation of durable and sustainable building technologies, Canton Tower has achieved good results in energy saving, land saving, material saving, water saving and other aspects. The ratio of the construction area in the underground space to the building floor area is 69%, saving land resources. The estimated annual power generation capacity of the photovoltaic system is 12,660 kWh. The annual power generation of wind turbines is approximately 41,472 kWh. Recycling water can save approximately 12,000 tons of water per year. The proportion of recyclable building materials reaches 18%.

Innovative Technology

Three-dimensional Space Measurement Technology

Due to its special shape and ultra-high structure, Canton Tower requires high measurement accuracy. In view of this situation, it was determined to use the GPS positioning system to design the measurement reference network and position the three-dimensional coordinates of the components in the air. In order to meet the installation and positioning needs of steel structures, a spatial measurement reference network was constructed. The spatial measurement reference network consists of five spatial points and one ground point.

Comprehensive safety protection and isolation technology

The steel structure of Canton Tower is installed for ultra-high-altitude operations. Due to the discontinuity of floors, ultra-high-altitude suspension operations must be performed. The risk of injury from falling objects also increases with height. A safety operating system consisting of vertical ladders, horizontal passages, edge fences, operating platforms and anti-fall isolation facilities has been developed.

Special-shaped steel structure pre-deformation technology

Since the Canton Tower has the structural characteristics of deflection and torsion, during the construction process, the structure will not only produce compression deformation and uneven settlement, but also Large horizontal deformation occurs, so pre-deformation control must be carried out. Otherwise, even if the initial installation position is accurate, large cumulative deformation will occur under the action of subsequent loads, causing the node to deviate from the original design position. A pre-deformation plan featuring staged adjustment and ring-by-ring reset was formulated to compensate for the deformation of the steel structure under constant load operations.

Landscape facilities

The Canton Tower Restaurant is located on the 106th floor of the Canton Tower. The 423-meter-high Xuanji Mediterranean Buffet Restaurant is the world’s highest revolving restaurant and can accommodate 130 to 150 people. It was verified by Guinness World Records in 2014 and rated as "the tallest revolving restaurant in a building. The restaurant is designed in an oval ring and rotates once every 100 minutes. It happens to be a dining time period as the rotation cycle, ensuring that all Guests in this location can fully enjoy the gorgeous scenery of Guangzhou, including four restaurants, namely 106/F Xuanji Mediterranean Buffet Restaurant in Area E (the highest revolving restaurant in the world), 105/F Lutees French Revolving Restaurant, and 103~ 103A Yue Jiao Xuan Chinese Restaurant and -1/F Chopsticks Restaurant

488 Outdoor Photography Viewing Platform

"Yunxiao 488" outdoor photography viewing platform won the World Honor in 2013. Nice records the honor of "World's Highest Outdoor Viewing Platform". The "Yunxiao 488" outdoor photography viewing platform is the highest point that tourists can reach when climbing the tower. It is located at 488 meters at the antenna mast of the Canton Tower, surpassing the Dubai Khalifa. The tower's 442-meter outdoor viewing platform and the height of the CN Tower's "Sky Cover" are 177 square meters and can accommodate more than 20 people at a time.

Ferris wheel.

The Canton Tower Ferris Wheel is located at 450~454 meters on the top of the Canton Tower. It is the tallest Ferris wheel in the world. Unlike ordinary erected Ferris wheels, the Canton Tower Ferris Wheel is not suspended on the track, but along the track. It runs on an inclined track for about 20 minutes. Visitors can view the city of Guangzhou from all angles. The Ferris wheel consists of 16 sightseeing spherical cabins, which rotate in conjunction and are placed next to each other. Each sightseeing spherical cabin has a diameter of 3.2. meters, can accommodate 4 to 6 passengers

Spider-Man Plank Road

The Canton Tower Spider-Man Plank Road is located at 168 meters to 334.4 meters in Canton Tower. It is the highest and longest air walk in the world. Cloud ladder. 1,088 steps spiral upward around the core of the tower, with a total length of about 1,000 meters and a total height of 166.4 meters. There are 3 fully transparent hollow glass floors on each floor. The plank road starts on the 33rd floor and ends on the 62nd floor. , it usually takes 40 minutes to 1 hour to complete the climb, and the fastest person can take 25 minutes[16] The world's highest vertical descent amusement project is located at the ultra-high altitude of the 455-485-meter antenna mast of the Canton Tower. It is 150 meters higher than the previous world's highest jumping machine in the Las Vegas amusement park, which was more than 300 meters high. There are two sets of downhill seats on the tower. Not only the traditional "sitting jump", but also the "standing jump" that simulates free fall. You can experience a 30-meter plunge in just over 1 second, and you can overlook the beautiful scenery of Guangzhou. You can also experience high-altitude rappelling. The Guinness World Records Committee has launched a new "World's Highest Thrilling Tour" project for the "rapid descent experience" of the Canton Tower, and the "rapid descent experience" of the Canton Tower has become the first and only winner.

Popular Science Tourist Hall

The Popular Science Tourist Hall is located on the 109th and 110th floors. It is the world’s first active and passive hybrid control vibration reduction control system. The tour hall displays the six major environmental protection features of Canton Tower. Technology systems: vibration reduction control system, rainwater recycling system, wind power generation system, solar photovoltaic curtain wall system, structural health detection system and super double-deck high-speed elevator.

XR Amusement Experience Hall

Canton Tower XR Amusement Experience Hall is located in the East Square of Guangzhou Tower. It is a newly opened 5G+XR experience project. Ride on the multi-latitude dynamic platform simulator in the experience hall, put on 4K high-definition VR glasses, and you will be able to travel along the starry sky with a space warship or dive into the seabed to explore the deep sea.

There is also an ultra-high-definition display screen outside the experience hall. Standing opposite the display screen and waving your hands, you can experience AR lion awakening and prehistoric dinosaurs for free... leaving you with a different interactive experience of checking in and taking photos.

TaxiWay Flight Center

TaxiWay Flight Center Guangzhou Tower store is located in the Huilixuan shopping mall on the first floor of Canton Tower. The store has two Boeing-authorized 737NG simulation cabins and the most professional ones on the market. Flight simulation trainer, its independently developed and produced Boeing 737 Level 4 trainer has passed the CCAR-60 certification of the Civil Aviation Department of China.

Canton Tower Alpha Discovery Park

Canton Tower Alpha Discovery Park includes three major projects: Sky Eye Trail, Headwind Crossing, and Exploration Alpha. It integrates exploration, team building, and study. In the past, projects that could only be experienced at internationally renowned landmarks such as the Toronto Tower, Burj Khalifa, and Sydney Bridge can now be experienced up close and in depth at the Canton Tower. At the opening ceremony on January 22, the two major projects of Headwind Crossing and Discovery Alpha were opened to the public for the first time. Headwind Crossing is located between the 33rd and 58th floors. It is the most challenging, thrilling and exciting in Canton Tower Alpha Discovery Park. Exciting blockbuster project. ;