![]() ![]() ![]() The offices for Shenzhen Energy Company are placed on the highest floors for employees to enjoy views to the city, while the remaining floors are rentable office space. Once inside, the linearity of the building façade continues horizontally: the pixel landscape of the stone planter boxes is in the same dimensions and arranged in the same pattern as the ripples of the building envelope. This sustainable facade system reduces the overall energy consumption of the building without any moving parts or complicated technology.įrom the street level, a series of walls are pulled open for visitors to enter the commercial spaces from the north and south end of the buildings, while professionals enter from the front plaza into the daylight-filled lobby. The sinuous direction of the façade corresponds to the solar orientation: it maximizes north-facing opening for natural light and views, while minimizing exposure on the sunny sides. As a result, the towers appear as a classical shape with an organic pattern from a distance and as an elegant pleated structure from close-up. The closed parts provide high-insulation while blocking direct sunlight and providing views out. Together with the neighboring towers, the new towers form a continuous curved skyline marking the center of Shenzhen.īIG developed an undulating building envelope which creates a rippled skin around both towers and breaks away from the traditional glass curtain wall.īy folding parts of the envelope that would reduce solar loads and glare, a façade with closed and open parts oscillate between transparency to one side and opacity to the other. The development consists of two towers rising 220m to the north and 120m to the south, linked together at the feet by a 34m podium housing the main lobbies, a conference center, cafeteria and exhibition space. ![]() The volume and height of the new headquarters for Shenzhen Energy Company was predetermined by the urban masterplan for the central area. A natural evolution that looks different because it performs differently.” Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG. Shenzhen Energy Mansion appears as a subtle mutation of the classic skyscraper and exploits the building’s interface with the external elements: sun, daylight, humidity and wind to create maximum comfort and quality inside. “Shenzhen Energy Mansion is our first realized example of ‘engineering without engines’ – the idea that we can engineer the dependence on machinery out of our buildings and let architecture fulfill the performance. BIG won the international design competition in the city known as China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ with ARUP and Transsolar in 2009 and started construction in 2012. The 96,000m2 office development for the state-owned Shenzhen Energy Company is designed to look and feel at home in the cultural, political and business center of Shenzhen, while standing out as a new social and sustainable landmark at the main axis of the city. Shenzhen Energy Company Office Skyscraper NewsīIG’S PLEATED SKYSCRAPER COMPLETES IN SHENZHENĪugust 7th, 2018 – The new home for Shenzhen Energy Company looks different because it performs differently: the building skin is developed to maximize the sustainable performance and workplace comfort in the local subtropical climate of China’s tech and innovation hub in Shenzhen. Shenzhen Energy Company Office Skyscraper Building The tallest of them, Ping An Finance Center with height of 599 meters, is also in Shenzhen.Shenzhen Energy Company Office Skyscraper Building, Chinese Architecture Images Shenzhen Energy Company Office Skyscraper ChinaĬontemporary Building in China – design by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group Architects, Denmark According to a list of top 10 skyscrapers to be completed this year reviewed by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat of the US, six will rise in China. The planned skyscraper will have 169 floors and called H700 Shenzhen Tower, according its builder's proposal.Ĭhina has several skyscrapers in the pipeline. With 74 percent of banking institutions, 80 percent insurance companies, 40 percent securities institutions as well as 90 percent foreign banks of the city located in Caiwuwei, it’s the Wall Street of Shenzhen. (Read also: Jakarta's tallest hotel set to attract business travelers)Īn undated design sketch of H700 Shenzhen Tower. If the plan goes through it means the new skyscraper over overtake 632-meter-tall Shanghai Tower to become the tallest building in China and the second-tallest in the world, according to the website of Luohu district of Shenzhen on Aug 9. Shenzhen, China's southern city neighboring Hong Kong, has announced a plan to build a skyscraper as high as 739 meters on the old site of Huanyu Tower in the newly designed Caiwuwei central financial district. Move aside Shanghai Tower, there's a new big boy in the town. ![]()
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