The Poetics of Slow Office Space in Shanghai

The Poetics of Slow Office Space

Architects: Muxin Studio. The politics of space, as advocated tirelessly by Lefebvre, is materialized as ubiquitous nets of power relations, rending all the office spaces a colosseum of power.

Shanghai Library, China Building

Shanghai Library China

Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. The main part of the library will float above two pavilions that will house a 1200 seat performance venue, exhibition and events space and a children’s library, that will all open up towards a series of landscaped courtyards and gardens.

Cross Tower in Shanghai

Cross Tower

Architects: Lead 8. Located in the Huangpu district of Shanghai, the reorientation and renovation of Cross Tower adopts a sophisticated industrial character, complementing the original art-deco style architecture of the tower.

Shanghai Planetarium Building, Lingang, China

Shanghai Planetarium Building

Design: Thomas Wong / Ennead Architects. Start on site for the new 38,000 sqm / 409,000 sqft planetarium that will define a new identity for the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (SSTM) and the Lingang district.

Cloud on Terrace, Gemdale Changshou Road

Cloud on Terrace Shanghai

Design: Andrew Bromberg at Aedas, Architects. Gemdale Changshou Road is located within the inner ring of Shanghai urban city, near the historic Changde Road with close proximity to two metro stations and a planned future green area in the residential zone on the south.

Shanghai Tower: Skyscraper China

Shanghai Tower skyscraper building

Design: Gensler ; 2DEFINE Architecture. World’s Second Tallest Building: Chief Architect Marshall Strabala updates on construction and design; how tower was built to withstand 114-mph winds and its ‘green’ building design

3Cubes Office Building in Shanghai

3Cubes Office Building

Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners · Architects. Office building for the Caohejing Business Park in western Shanghai. The office building complex has a gross floor area of 60,000m² and consists of three cubic building volumes with different heights of between 35 m and 60 m.

Data Center of China Life Insurance in Shanghai

Data Center of China Life Insurance

Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners · Architects. The design tried to convey, through the architecture, two important qualities which should be associated with a large insurance company: trustworthiness, reliability, longevity but also that it is equipped for the future.

Shanghai Garden Villa, China

Shanghai Garden Villa Building

Design: Studio Twist, architects. This house is about the balance of these dualities, of family life and social life. The villa is organized into 2 rectilinear blocks sitting on an arrangement of walls that extend into the surrounding garden.

Global Harbor Shopping Centre in Shanghai

Global Harbor Shopping Centre in Shanghai

Design: Chapman Taylor, architects. This 480,000 sqm commercial complex comprises a 270,000 sqm shopping centre, two 245m-high office, hotel and apartment towers above a 4-storey podium. The architectural façade designed uses a neoclassical approach.

Gala Avenue Westside in Shanghai

Gala Avenue Westside

Design: Benoy, Architects. Future mixed-use development within the major Lujiazui Harbour City area. The 250,000 sqm of former shipyard land since the 1800s to be redeveloped into a major destination for the city.

Shanghai Centre Building, China

Shanghai Centre Building

Design: John Portman & Associates, architects. Shanghai Center, a project designed more than 30 years ago, has received the “China Tall Building Legacy” award of the inaugural China Tall Building Award. This award recognizes proven value and performance during the period of time from China’s economic opening in 1978.

Hi-Tech Start-Up Incubator Shanghai

Hi-Tech Start-Up Incubator

Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen. The building is overclad, unifying existing rendered concrete facade with a corrugated and perforated PPC aluminium skin. Shading is provided to every workspace whilst optimising both view and daylight via the perforated aluminium facade.