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Gerkan, Marg and Partners (GMP) has won an international competition for the design of a new tower complex in Shenzhen’s “Super Bay City” business district. Consisting of three distinct blocks linked at the base, the primary tower of the Hengli International Building rises 250 meters to become an impressive landmark and a cultural destination for the new business district.

Located in Shenzhen Bay, to the west of the Chinese megacity, the urban masterplan containing the GMP scheme seeks to become a “high-density urban development with high-rise buildings of up to 600 meters.” Contributing significantly to the area’s skyline, the GMP proposal features three distinct volumes: a 250-meter-high office tower, a 36-meter-high conference center, and an 80-meter-high “culture tower.” Providing a rhythm to the tower’s verticality, “sky gardens” have been designed at various levels to be used as public amenity areas on the main tower, and the adjacent conference center and “culture tower.”

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• Architects

  gmp Architects

• Location

  Workers' Stadium E Rd, Chaoyang, Beijing, China

• Category

  Hotels

• Architect in Charge

  Meinhard von Gerkan, Stephan Schütz, Stephan Rewolle

• Project leader

  Jun Su

• Design Team

  Andreas Götze, Xiao Liu, Wenda Xiao, Matthias Wiegelmann, Ying Yang, Da Lin, Qiao Ding, Ye Yuan, Yihan Zhou

• Project management China

  Ling Li, Fang Xie

• Area

  31372.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Christian Gahl

By 2020, an innovation campus with offices and laboratories for young companies in the high-tech field will be developed in Suzhou, the eastern Chinese metropolis. The total of 330,000 square meters of gross floor area is provided in five building clusters of different sizes, which are arranged offset from each other around a park and lake landscape. In the spring of 2018, the design by Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) and WES landscape architects won first prize in the competition for the project.

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• Architects

  gmp Architects

• Location

  Beijing, China

• Category

  Office buildings

• Design

  Meinhard von Gerkan, Stephan Schütz with Nicolas Pomränke, Stephan Rewolle

• Project Management

  Patrick Pfleiderer, Helga Reimund, Zheng Fei

• Area

  139355.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Christian Gahl

The much anticipated Time Space Existence collateral event at Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale brought together a diverse group of 100 architects from six continents in an "extraordinary combination." Summoned by the Dutch non-profit Global Arts Affairs Foundation, the exhibitions the architects were asked to produce documents current developments and thoughts in architecture, highlighting fundamental questions by discussing the philosophical concepts of Time, Space and Existence. Featuring well established architects next to lesser known practices, they all share a "dedication to architecture in the broadest sense of their profession."