Oasis Towers, Nanjing China, Jiangsu Province Development, Competition Winners, New Chinese Architecture Photos
Oasis Towers in Nanjing
15 Aug 2022
Architects: MVRDV
Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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Oasis Towers, China
A green haven among skyscrapers: MVRDV wins competition to design nature-inspired Oasis Towers in Nanjing The Chinese metropolis of Nanjing is growing rapidly. To enable this growth, in 2015 the government formed the Jiangbei New Area, expanding Nanjing to the west across the Yangtze River. MVRDV has now won a competition to design a mixed-use residential and commercial complex on the edge of the Jiangbei New Area?s Financial District. With a green landscape nestled between two 150-metre-tall towers, Oasis Towers will provide a haven for residents in a dense and rapidly developing part of the city.
The project spans two adjacent blocks on the edge of the Jiangbei Financial District masterplan. The project?s two L-shaped towers, each 40 storeys in height, face each other from the north and south corners, while the podium of 3?4 storeys forms a perimeter that encloses almost the entire site to create the protective environment at its heart. This perimeter building bridges over pedestrian access routes and even the street between the two plots, creating a clear separation between the surrounding neighbourhood and the oasis at the centre of the design.

Peppered with trees and other greenery, the oasis forms a green landscape on the build...