Designed by HCD, The total construction scale of the Canal Vanke Centre is about 360,000 square meters, which is the third Vanke Center of Vanke Hangzhou. With five towers behind, this small building of less than 2,000 sq.ms is the most important activator along the 600-meter long axis of the public space. As innovation and experience center, it revolves Automobile-Internet industries. With unique space and diverse contents, it builds a new scenery of experience and drives the future of the auto industry. It can be described as Small Building with Great Capacities.

This is a building that cars can drive along a continuous ramp till to the roofs and will become a super show in Hangzhou. We found a key which opens endless imaginations of everyone involved! Photography: Yong Zhang
With circling ramps, roof show, grand stairs, continuous stair system etc., two paths outside and inside of the building, we re-explain the classic time and space idea of modernism architecture, Promenade Architecture.

The building is located at the southeast corner of the site along the street. Its east side and north side are respectively supported by the planned road (the main motorized traffic path of the first phase project) and the underground parking entrance. Its west side and a south side face the central square and the central axis. The ramp spirals counterclockwise along the eastern side of the north circle and winds up to the north roof, which is the first outdoor show space. It continu...