Bao?An Bay Industrial Investment Tower, Shenzhen Commercial Design, Architecture Images
Bao?An Bay Industrial Investment Tower in Shenzhen
Contemporary Commercial Building Project in China ? design by Jaeger Kahlen Partner
9 Jan 2020
Bao?An Bay Industrial Investment Tower
Architects: Jaeger Kahlen Partner
Location: Shenzhen, China

Jaeger Kahlen Partner is one of the joint winners at the international competition for Bao?An Bay Industrial Investment Tower in Shenzhen, China. The office building is a set of shifting volumes that break the tower into a series of terraced stacked urban blocks. The design offers a distinctive landmark office experience in Shenzhen that provides state-of-the-art work environments and enhances the surrounding urban fabric with pedestrian green spaces and a new bus terminal.
The tower is located in a quickly developing neighborhood that boasts quick access to Shenzhen Bao?An International Airport and the cities along the Pearl River Delta. Because of its convenient location, there was ample demand for new office space but an airport-imposed height restriction of 150 meters. Responding to this unique constraint, the design breaks the monolithic building mass into a series of several smaller volumes that shift in and out to integrate better the tower into the scale of the site surroundings. These shifting volumes lend the tower a visual lightness?the building unfolds in a cascade of terraces and cantilevers that create a rich dialogue with the n...