Global Headquaters of Tencent; WeChat Social Media
Architecture firm NBBJ designed the global headquaters of Tencent, the company behind Chinese social media platform WeChat. Tencent is ranked the fifth most valuable listed company in the world – worth over $500 billion (£352 billion), making it currently more valuable than Facebook. The complex is made up of two towers, connected by bridges to encourage staff to meet. Two glass and aluminum towers rise to 50 and 39 stories…
Phoenix International Media Center, China
A skewed annular form shapes the irregular volume of the Phoenix International Media Center, the headquarters of China’s largest private broadcaster. Completed by BIAD-UFO, this remarkable building adds value to its location as an engineering tourist attraction. The structural system does not only stand for the engineering genius but also improves environmentally beneficial concepts by integrating water collection that naturally falls through these steel channels into the underground tanks for later use of landscaping elements.…
China Hangzhou E-sports Center, China
Designed by CSADI, Hangzhou E-sports Center is located in the Beijingyuan Ecological Park at the southern foot of Gaoting Mountain. It was the first standard stadium for Asian Games E-sports competitions in China after E-sports is confirmed as an official competition event of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. This is a public place integrating a sports venue and ecological park. The sunken plazas and courtyards around the building bring sunlight and air to the underground…
Tencent Beijing Headquarters, China
Tencent’s new headquarters in Beijing will accommodate thousands of employees. Instead of seeking soaring heights to host the expansion of the digital workforce, OMA designed a square-shaped floating volume of merely 7 floors that stretches out horizontally, with the exceptionally large floorplan of 180 x 180m. Tencent Headquarters is a city in a singular building – the campus allows for unique manipulations not possible within the limits of typical traditional offices. …
Selene Tower by Norman Foster, NY
Foster + Partners takes to Midtown Manhattan with the design of ‘Selene,’ a luxury condominium tower. The neighborhood marks the epicenter for luxury living in New York. Formally, it responds to the precedent set by two neighboring twentieth-century Modernist icons – SOM’s 21-storey Lever House of 1952 and Mies van der Rohe’s 38-story Seagram Building of 1958. Within the tower, apartments range from one-bedrooms to a duplex full-floor penthouse. Each opens up with lofty, eleven-foot-high…
