Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) architecture firm, 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. Integrating clusters of corporate headquarters within a global technology hub accommodating 300,000 employees each day, the development will include venues for international conferences, exhibitions, and other cultural programming. The headquarters Base will incorporate residential developments, a transportation center, botanical grasslands, and even a coastal zone with wetlands.

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.

The tower will connect directly with its adjacent park and plazas, which transform into a terraced landscape extending upwards within its two towers, the design invites the public go into the heart of the building where cultural and leisure attractions are housed in sweeping bridges that tie the towers whilst offering panoramic views of the city.

Dubbed as “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.

Via ZHA