Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) was announced as the winner of the design competition to build Tower C at Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base.
The Shenzhen Bay Headquarters Base will be a business and financial center in Shenzhen serving the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau. ZHA designed Tower C as two towers that sit at the intersection of the city's planned north-south green axis and Shenzhen's east-west urban corridor.
Terraced landscapes extend upwards into the two towers, inviting the public into the heart of the building where cultural and pleasure activities will take place. Bridges extend and sweep throughout connecting the two towers whilst offering panoramic views of the city.
Dubbed a "vertical city," the two towers rise to nearly 400m, providing column-free naturally-lit office space, shopping, entertainment, and dining amenities, together with a hotel, convention center, and cultural facilities with exhibition galleries.
The design incorporates many sustainable design features, including a double-insulated, unitized glass curtain wall that will incorporate vertical channels for self-shading, and ventilating registers will be housed within the channels to draw outside air through operable cavities, providing a natural/hybrid ventilation through the space.
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It's a little bulky, and looks terrible so close to the neighboring highrise, but I like the central atrium and stepped podium. Wouldn't mind working on the CDs and construction for this building...
Ok, I will put you on the stair and railing details for the next 6 month while paying you McDonalds salary working 60-80 Hrs per week without overtime pay. Hooray.
You ever actually work a minimum wage job Jay?
The specialized stuff probably gets outsourced to consultants anyway. The way these projects work, the architect sometimes really just maintains a coordination role after DD is done.
Here’s how it’ll most likely happen: the facade consultant is probably signed on with ZHA, and they’ll work together to rationalize the facade, especially those corner areas around and above the atrium, which will most likely be the areas that the large Chinese LDI will value engineer out. The jagged paneling of the upper levels will be rationalized. The planting will undergo numerous rounds of cost cutting by the LDI, especially those sloped areas. ZHA will bring the facade panelization from the facade consultant to the LDI’s BIM group, but because of lack of construction and fabrication expertise, the seams and edges will look shoddy.
You're probably underestimating the expertise of the LDI, engineers, and consultants - the latter two are staffed internationally anyway. The high end stuff in Asia Pacific and Middle East is comparable, if not superior, to construction in the US. Guangzhou was a long time ago.
Don't get me wrong, I have faith in the coordination by ZHA especially with their latest experiences with Leeza SOHO and Macau, but the LDI is a large variable here. They have the upper hand in these types of projects, and I'm uncomfortable with 1) the expansive Shenzhen Bay projects that are underway, which will stretch the manpower and expertise more than usual, 2) the approaching Beijing Winter Olympics, which feels like a looming deadline especially with COVID vaccines currently being shipped, which will probably make this Olympics the first after the worldwide pandemic (with Japan still a mess), so the head officials will probably want these projects done or close to substantial completion ahead of the opening for those big news events, and 3) many people were let go last year, with new and cheaper graduates taking their place, which does not lead to good design or details.
Looks like the shorter tower is removing the pants off of the taller one...
it's nice. except the top, which looks like some generic corporate building, and beige.... why beige???????????????????????????
Urbanism is dead. Who wants to live or work in these awful cities?
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