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Essence Financial Securities / Rocco Design Architects Associates

Andreas Luco — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Essence Financial Securities is a 193.5-meter-tall headquarters building for featuring triple- and septuple-height courtyards that rise through the floors. Located in Futian, the central business district of Shenzhen, the tower combines two separate headquarters offices, financial trading halls, and commercial office space into a vertical neighborhood. The headquarters offices occupy three stacks of floors at the upper reaches of the tower. All are defined by voids at the center of the floorplates—rising six floors in the lower headquarters and three in the upper—that act as communal courtyards and visually interconnect the floors into cohesive office clusters.

Hong Kong Palace Museum / Rocco Design Architects Associates

Collin Chen — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

RDA’s Hong Kong Palace Museum, a flagship project of the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) development, has officially opened. As a new center for Chinese art and antiquities in Hong Kong, the building will be home to more than 900 objects from the Beijing Palace Museum in the Forbidden City, including 160 Class A artifacts considered national treasures. The building is conceived as a civic hub and new landmark for Hong Kong, as well as a platform to connect new generations with China's cultural history. It will host interactive and experiential exhibitions, casting new light on antiquities.

iADC Design Museum / Rocco Design Architects Associates

Collin Chen — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 23:00:00 +0000

iADC Design Museum is situated at the heart of the Shapu Art District in Baoan, Shenzhen. The art district took an experimental urban planning approach to utilize art and culture as the main driver of the development of the city. The museum positions itself as one of the major cultural establishments in attempt to weave layers of identities into a new man-made district.

Chinese University of Hong Kong / Wang Weijen Architecture + Rocco Design Architects Associates + Gravity Partnership

Andreas Luco — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK SZ) brings the global perspective and academic excellence to the city Shenzhen – China’s rapidly-growing innovation and tech hub. Situated in the natural reserve area of Tong Gu Hill, the campus houses multiple teaching and research facilities, student residences, administrative offices, and recreation facilities that serve 7000 students. Rocco Design Architects Associates developed a masterplan and comprehensive design that not only serves the needs of faculty, students, and staff, but also creates a sustainable, community-oriented learning environment that reflects the dynamic and collaborative spirit of Shenzhen.

Bao’an Cultural Complex / Rocco Design Architects Associates

Collin Chen — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Overlooking Quanhai Bay and the South China Sea, Bao’an Cultural Complex is a masterplan of buildings that create a new public campus for the city while mediating between the coastal landscape and the more densely developed commercial areas further inland. The 110,000-square-meter scheme—which includes a library, cultural centre, as well as a performing arts venue—won an invited international competition. The Library and the Youth Palace and Cultural Centre were completed as part of the first phase. An additional performing arts centre is currently under construction and will complete in 2020, finishing the development.

Chu Hai College Campus / Rocco Design Architects Associates

舒岳康 — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:00:00 +0000

The new campus design signifies a highly linked & connected institution. It looks into the compact urban condition of Hong Kong itself for direct inspiration and epitomizes a miniature city, dense and connected. The spatial organization maximizes density by stacking multiple slab blocks of different programs vertically on top of each other over a podium of communal activities, including a number of lecture theatres and a gymnasium. A folded vertical Student Boulevard rises to form a 3-dimensional street network in the air that weaves and binds the different blocks and levels into a connected whole. From the Boulevard, students can gain free access to a series of sky gardens and roof decks of various scales on different levels: turfed green lawn sloping towards the sea, student plaza & mini café etc., all afforded with magnificent sea views and lively atmosphere.

Yunnan Museum / Rocco Design Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:00:00 +0000

The generative concept of the museum is derived from the potent imagery of Yunnan’s famed local "stone forests", the dramatic geography of raw, powerful beauty of the geological landscapes sculpted by nature over millennia, and the idea of stacked boxes holding fragile treasures, giving the architecture its defining metaphor as an assembled container of artifacts - a group of spatial volumes that congregates to form a larger mass, where individual pieces are still evident.

Chu Hai College of Higher Education / Rocco Design Architects Limited

Connor Walker — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Modeled after its dense urban surroundings, Chu Hai College of Higher Education’s new campus in Hong Kong meets a complex program while giving students a fantastic view of the ocean. Designed by Rocco Design Architects Limited, the building's geometry stacks different programmatic uses on top of each other and connects them with a vertical boulevard. The result is a sculptural entity, partially inspired by Chinese calligraphy, that seeks a balance between solid and void.

HKSAR Government Headquarters / Rocco Design Architects Associates

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 01:00:00 +0000

HKSAR Government Headquarters is located at the historical site of Tamar, a former naval dockyard. It is an intricately composed Government Complex, integrating three principal facilities: the HKSAR Government Offices, the Chief Executive’s Office and the Legislative Council Complex. The design projects a unifying composition, while each facility maintains its identity and expression befitting to its function. The two wings of Government Offices are joined together at the upper level, creating the visual metaphor of an opening door. The Legislative Council Complex and the Chief Executive’s Office flanking the Civic Park project forward on either side, signifying their independence as well as their dialogue across the landscape. The landscaped Civic Park, or “Green Carpet”, penetrates the heart of the project linking the city with the waterfront, gives Tamar back to the citizens and brings them right through the heart of Government.

Hotel ICON / Rocco Design Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen Campus) Master Plan Winning Proposal / Rocco Design Architects

Alison Furuto — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Rocco Design Architects Ltd., in collaboration with Gravity Partnership Ltd. and Wang Weijen Architecture, recently won the international competition for the new campus for the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen. Currently in construction, the planning concept for the new campus is “Academic Clusters, Campus Green and Natural Terrain”. Phase one of the campus is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2015. More images and architects’ description after the break.

LHT Tower / Rocco Design Architects Associates

Victoria King — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

LHT Tower re-development comprises 29 storeys, with 11,000 sqm of Grade A office space and 3000 sqm of podium retail and restaurant. Situated at a prominent corner of the Queen’s Road Central and the pedestrianised Theatre Lane, the inspiration for the design was drawn from the site and its special theatrical history.

The Teaching Complex / Rocco Design Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:00:00 +0000

The Teaching Complex marks a new phase of the CUHK Campus Redevelopment. Located near the University’s Central Campus main entrance, this new 12,000-square-metre building aims to establish a new urban dialogue with the existing Tin Ka Ping Building to the east to redefine the gateway to the existing Campus. As the new architecture replaces the original Li Dak Sum Building of the old cluster, an opportunity for re-organization of the campus spaces has become possible.

Guangdong Museum / Rocco Design Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Guangdong Museum is one of four major cultural landmark buildings for the new financial hub in Zhujiang Xincheng (Pearl River New Town) of Guangzhou. Rocco Design Architects Ltd. was announced winner of an international invited competition in May 2004 and was subsequently appointed as design architect of the project. The five-storey museum has a total floor area of approximately 67,000 square metres.