CTF Finance Centre

This guide to the CTF Finance Centre in Guangzhou starts with a planned matched pair of towers meant to mirror the older International Finance Center across the plaza, a symmetry that fell apart sometime in the 2000s when the developer wanted something bigger instead. It follows what replaced that plan, a single asymmetric tower, and the elevator installed to compensate, a lift that shoots from the ground floor toward the 95th-floor hotel lobby at seventy five kilometers an hour. Listen for how that speed measures against the tower's full height, and what still lies beyond where that elevator stops.