Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed Scenic City, its design for the headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com, which will feature facades designed to resemble waterfalls.
The project is located in Nanshan District in Shenzhen, China, a newly established business and financial hub where several Chinese tech giants will reside.
The project comprises two towers and a shared podium
The site will comprise two million square feet (186,000 square metres) of office, hotel, retail and cultural spaces across two towers and an adjacent podium with a 150-seat theatre and an exhibition space placed on top.
The 188-metre tall east tower will house the headquarters of JD.com, while the lower levels of the tower will be used for cultural events. The facades of both towers feature a waterfall-like visual effect created by vertical louvres
A hotel and leasing office spaces will occupy the 131-metre-tall west tower.
The concept of "in-between spaces" motivated Büro Ole Scheeren to try to strike a dialogue between the building volumes and the surrounding nature.
"In-between spaces are deeply rooted in the oriental concept of nature, bringing focus to the moments that occurred not only within the built volumes, but also around and amongst them," the studio said.
Green terraces are inserted at different levels of the towers
"The 'in-between spaces' are sometimes more important than the physical structures," the studio added. "The life o...