Shenzhen Stock Exchange HQ / OMA

Architects: OMA
Area: 180000 m²
Year: 2013
Photographs:Philippe Ruault
Level Acoustic: DHV Building and Industry, Bertie van de Braak, Caroline Kaas, Renz van Luxemburg, Theo Rijmakers
Landscape: Inside Outside, Petra Blaise, Jana Crepon, Rosetta Elkin, Aura Melis

Curated by ArchDaily

Category: Institutional Buildings
Partners In Charge: Rem Koolhaas, David Gianotten
Collaborators: Ellen van Loon, Shohei Shigematsu
Associate In Charge: Michael Kokora
Team: Yang Yang, Wanyu He, Daan Ooievaar, Joanna Gu, Vincent Kersten, Yun Zhang, Kunle Adeyemi, Ryann Aoukar, Sebastian Appl, Waichuen Chan, Jan Dechow, Matthew Engele, Leo Ferretto, Clarisa Garcia Fresco, Alasdair Graham, Leonie Wenz, Richard Sharam, Laura Baird, Matthew Jull, Franscesca Portesine, Lukasz Skalec, Lukasz Szlachcic, Lukas Drasnar, Christine Svensson, Matthew Haseltine, Jaitian Gu, João Ferreira Marques Jesus, Alex de Jong, Santiago Hierro Kennedy, Klaas Kresse, Miranda Lee, Anna Little, Luxiang Liu, David Eugin Moon, Cristina Murphy, Idrees Rasouli, Korbinian Schneider, Wolfgang Schwarzwalder, Felix Schwimmer, Michela Tonus, Miroslav Vavrina, Ferdjan Van der Pijl, Se Yoon Park, Na Wei, Xinyuan Wang, Ken Yang Tan, Su Xia, Yunchao Xu
Competition Team: Rotterdam: Rem Koolhaas, Shohei Shigematsu, Anna Little, Christin Svensson, Jason Long, Carlos Garcia Gonzalez, Joao Bravo da Costa, Mauro Paraviccini, Mariano Sagasta, Bart Schoonderbeek, Konstantin August, Klaas Kresse, Kengo Skorick, Katharina Gerlach, Mendel Robbers, Hong Yong Sook, Beatriz MInguez de Molina, Martti Kalliala, Andrea Bertassi, Daniel Ostrowski, Yuanzhen Ou
AMO: Todd Reisz, Brendan McGetrick
Beijing: Ole Scheeren, Dongmei Yao, Hiromasa Shirai, Anu Leinonen, Tieying Fang, Pei Feng, Xinyuan Wang
L&B Quantity Surveyors: Law Hing Wai, Melody Huang
ARUP: Michael Kwok, Rory McGowan, Nancy Huang, Chas Pope, Kai-Sing Yung, Oliver Kwong
Structural: Chas Pope, Goman Ho, Xiaonian Duan, Chris Carroll, Robin Ching, Guo-Yi Cui, Andrew Grant, Yue Hao, Jonathan Kerry, Di Liu, Peng Liu, Hui-yuan Long, Alex To, Fei Tong, Matthew Tsang, Yu-Bai Zhong, FX Xie, Liang Xu, Ling Zhou, Façade Engineering - Gerald Hobday, Andy Lee
Project Management: Nancy Huang, Wei Gao, Penny Liu, Jerry Zhang
Vertical Transportation: Matthew Tang, Julian Olley
Lighting/Led: Steve Walker, Francesco Anselmo, Katie Hardstone, David Lakin, Florence Lam, Melissa Mak, Siegrid Siderius, Junko Umemoto
SADI: Meng Jianmin, Shen Xiaoheng, James Hong, Lin Zhenhai, Wu Chao, Wang Qiwen, Liu Chen, Li Hanguo, Luo Xin, Zhen Wenxing, Yang Baozhen, Zeng Zumin
Building Physics: Vincent Cheng, Isaac Tang, Raymond Yau, Rumin Yin
Building Intelligence: Patrick Leung, Michael Tomordy, Sam Tsoi, Henry Chan, Mark Chen, Jacky Lo , Wing-Shan Mak, Edwin Wong
Geotechnical Engineering: Mark Choi, Maggie Qing-Min Meng, Jason Ng, Wei-Guang Ruan
City: Shenzhen Shi
Country: China

Shenzhen Stock Exchange HQ / OMA - Windows, Facade, Cityscape — © Philippe Ruault

The essence of the stock market is speculation: it is based on capital, not material. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is conceived as a physical materialization of the virtual stock market: it is a building with a floating base, representing the stock market – more than physically accommodating it. Typically, the base of a building anchors a structure and connects it emphatically to the ground. In the case of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the base, as if lifted by the same speculative euphoria that drives the market, has crept up the tower to become a raised podium, defying an architectural convention that has survived millennia into modernity: a solid building standing on a solid base.