China Unicom IT Industrial Operation Center, Guangzhou Building
China Unicom IT Industrial Operation Center
Chinese Tower Building: New Skyscraper in China ? design by gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
28 Dec 2016
China Unicom IT Industrial Operation Center in Guangzhou
Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
Location: Guangzhou, China
Competition win, project commissioned

The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) won the international competition for the new construction of an IT industrial operation center with adjacent high-rise office block in Guangzhou for China Unicom back in June 2015. The Client is one of the leading Chinese telecommunications companies and the German architects have been commissioned to carry out the design.
In the center of the new Tianhe District business quarter near the city university and administration, two high-rise buildings, which are linked by a five-story plinth, will be constructed to the design of the architects.

The landscape reference focuses on an existing wooded hill around which all the buildings are grouped, and which is linked to the urban area via an arcade which is open to the main road. In line with Chinese landscape tradition, the hills are located to the north and terraced water features to the south ? thus defining the separation from the public space.

The buildings have been placed such that they do not overshadow the existing residential buildings to the north-west. The western tower, which houses th...