The site is located in a former agricultural area about 30 km West of Shanghai City Centre and is to be connected by the future Metro Line 17. The new city district therefore benefits from ideal transport connections.
According to the urban masterplan, the tower designed by HPP will be the highest building in the district, its height and defining presence will ensure its visibility from near and far and its landmark status. The design has a total footprint of 29,733 m², and is a mixed use city complex housing offices, conference facilities, a hotel, serviced apartments, and retail units on a total GFA of 116,100 m².
The main 170 m high tower is composed of a 5 star Hotel with 400 rooms in the upper levels, public restaurants with a ballroom in the podium and in-between high-end international offices. Being a so-called Vertical Garden, it has been designed as a z-shape, with two green platforms on podium and topmost floors and two further green balconies in the communication zone of each floor. The tower acts as a city beacon facing Shanghai’s largest lake Dianshan and all of western Shanghai.
Together with the two L-shaped serviced apartment buildings placed opposite one another in the north, and two detached small office buildings in the east, it defines two clear urban corridors involving water elements in both directions and automatically creates two protected open zones. These open areas are surrounded by retail units on the 1st to 4th floors. A wide-open sunken plaza in the middle of the spaces connects the underground shops and the subway station attracting shoppers and visitors from the whole of the surrounding area.
A specially constructed canal of varying widths begins on the southeast edge of the site and meanders through open spaces, past the tower entrance, past the retail units in the north and finally ends in a plaza.
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