American architects are exporting a luxury product of a dimension and scale few clients in the United States can afford at home: the supertall skyscraper—that is, a skyscraper over 1,250 feet tall (page 160). Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the architect for the 1,588-foot-high International Commerce Centre (ICC) in Hong Kong, opened in 2011, ventured into Asia in the 1990s, and soon made its mark with towers in Shanghai and Tokyo. By the time the firm completed the tallest building in China in 2008—the 1,614-foot-tall Shanghai World Financial Center—it was at the center of an inner circle of (mostly American) architects designing supertall skyscrapers. Now KPF's roster of higher-than-high-rises in the works include five in China—in Shenzhen, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenyang, and Suzhou—one in Seoul, and another in Doha, Qatar.
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