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Architects: ZDA - Zoboki Design and Architecture
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Zang Chao
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Acoustics Consultant: Studio DAP, Federico Cruz Barney
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Electrical Consultant: Hungaroproject Engineering Office, Ferenc Rajkai
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Structural Consultant: Földvári Architect Office, System Steel Ltd, András Szabó, Gábor Földvári
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Mechanical Engineering Consultant: G&B Plan Ltd, Kálmán and Partners Mechanical Engineering, Zsolt Kálmán, János Bukovics
Text description provided by the architects. Shenzhen, situated on the border of Mainland China and Hong Kong, was a quiet town inhabited by fishermen and a modest population of 20,000 inhabitants four decades ago. Today it is a huge metropolis with over 15 million residents. Cities of this size tend to lose their human scale, becoming chaotic and spiritless, thus being difficult to live in. In the dynamic development of such cities as Shenzhen, the advances often ignored the cultural needs of the population within an emerging economic environment. It is especially true in cases like Shenzhen, where the cultural development didn’t follow the rhythm of economic growth. In Shenzhen, the places for communal or cultural exchange were limited to karaoke bars and shopping malls leaving a void in the domain of more sophisticated cultural venues.
