Beijing: Anchoring Beijing?s Dawangjing business district, the mixed-use Beijing Greenland Center is a highly sustainable landmark building equidistant from Beijing?s bustling core and the airport. The 260-meter-tall, 55-story tower prioritizes sustainability and efciency and is clad in a prismatic trapezoidal glass fac?ade that generates self- shading to enhance the building?s environmental performance. 

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Architects: SOM

Location: Beijing, Beijing, China

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Lv Hengzhong

Owner And Developer: Greenland Group

Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Structural Engineers: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Mep Engineers: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Project Managers: Michael Pfeffer

Main Contractors: Beijing Liujian Construction Group Co., Ltd.

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From the architect. Beijing: Anchoring Beijing?s Dawangjing business district, the mixed-use Beijing Greenland Center is a highly sustainable landmark building equidistant from Beijing?s bustling core and the airport. The 260-meter-tall, 55-story tower prioritizes sustainability and efciency and is clad in a prismatic trapezoidal glass fac?ade that generates self- shading to enhance the building?s environmental performance. 

© Lv Hen...