Asia Financial Center & AIIB HQ, Beijing Building, Chinese Modern Architecture Photos
Asia Financial Center & AIIB HQ in Beijing
19 Jan 2021
Asia Financial Center & AIIB HQ
Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects
Location: Beijing, China

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB, is the first multilateral development bank with head office in China. This financial institution, with its 103 member states, has now moved into its new head office at a prominent location in Beijing.

After winning the international competition in September 2015, the architects gmp von Gerkan, Marg and Partners and their partner practice Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University Co. Ltd. (THAD) have completed the 83-meter-high symmetrical building with its stacked meandering building volumes. It marks the end of the north-south axis through Beijing?s Olympic Park and is located in the direct vicinity of iconic buildings such as the National Stadium and the National Convention Center. All offices are grouped around a total of nine open courtyards that allow light into the building. Its center features a building-high atrium around which open spaces are arranged in a continuous manner offering many interconnecting views.
In its exterior shape, the building adopts principles of the typical Beijing courtyard house, while its construction has elements that are reminiscent of traditional Chinese timber buildings. The stacked meandering three-s...