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SHENZHEN GATE
The site is located within a key transitional zone between the Shenzhen North Railway Station and key business districts to the east. Regional high-speed rail, local rail, intercity rail and international checkpoints are to eventually be incorporated within the station. Such intensity of use will tremendously benefit the proposed office, service apartment, hotel and retail uses. After examining both the existing and proposed conditions, it quickly became clear that in order to maximize the success of this project, both sites would need to be designed to provide a level of cross-connectivity through the east plaza that would not be overshadowed by the strong axial relationship that the park, the east plaza, and the north station have already established. The
sites must work to dissipate and diffuse that intensity across the site in order to capture the energy of the surrounding context. From an urban planning perspective the NE-SW axis becomes the gateway, which is naturally created by the towers zoning requirements and their spatial relationship to both the station and the park across from Mintang Street. The physical difference in the plot’s geometry, not only between them but also in relationship to the station’s axis, provides an asymmetry within the composition that translates into a unique architectural vocabulary for each site. The gateway provides the urban framework, but each complex has its own image. IMAGES BY QINGYAN ZHU
YEAR
SIZE
TYPE
STATUS
LOCATION
CLIENT
COLLABORATION
2021
140.000 M2
MIX-USE
COMPLETED
SHENZHEN, CHINA
SHENZHEN METRO GROUP AND VANKE
CNADRI - CHINA NORTHEAST ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN & RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO LTD. ALT. LOCUS ASSOCIATES. PHOTOGRAPHY BY QINGYAN ZHU