Parc Central Mixed-Use Complex, China
Parc Central is an urban park located in the heart of the Guangzhou’s Central Business District, China. Benoy, in collaboration with Ronald Lu and Partners, was tasked with this large-scale project of developing a unique destination where business and community come together.
The result is a distinctive 110,000m2 complex which comprises shopping, entertainment and dining facilities with multi-level parkland. The complex landscape with its varying levels, gardens, planted walkways and living walls has created a place to communication, rest and relax.
Parc Central is a low-rise building, standing 24m in height with two levels above ground and three levels underground. Being lower than the surrounding buildings, the design called for an eye-catching and powerful visual statement.
Drawing on the symbol for peace, harmony, and fortune in the Chinese culture, the architecture references the ‘Double fish’ in the form of a steel monocoque with the roof structure. The two buildings curve around the central gardens and are joined by a pedestrian bridge at one end.
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