Huawei Technological Factory, Building Development in Beijing, China, Architecture Images
Huawei Technological Factory Buildings in Beijing
Contemporary Place of Work in China – design by Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
14 Jun 2017
Huawei Technological Factory Buildings
Design: Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
Location: Beijing, China
Huawei Technological Factory Buildings

In Beijing, gmp · Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners have completed the Huawei Technological Factory Buildings. Following the previous projects in Shenzhen and Chengdu, this is now the third research and development center for the Chinese telecommunications corporation completed to a design by gmp. The development, with its gross floor area of 85,000 sqm and campus-like layout, provides a working environment that benefits from a close relationship with the surrounding landscape ? nearly all workplaces face the park outside.
The outstanding feature of the place to the north-west of the Chinese capital, in the Zhongguancun Environmental Protection Park, is the impressive silhouette of the nearby West Mountains. Designed in the pattern of a campus, three buildings for research and development are grouped around a canteen building at the center of the development within open parkland. The site is accessed via an outer ring road and an inner network of pedestrian pathways.

The four-story research and development buildings are made up of two intersecting square building volume...