Hong Leong City Center, Suzhou Building, Chinese Mixed-Use Complex, Jiangsu Province, Images
Hong Leong City Center in Suzhou
Mixed-Use Complex Towers Development, China ? design by Aedas
6 Nov 2018
Hong Leong City Center
Architects: Aedas
Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Aedas-designed urban complex Hong Leong City Center opens
Aedas-designed Hong Leong City Center in Suzhou, China, recently opened its doors.

As the first commercial project developed in China by Singapore-listed City Developments Limited, this mixed-use urban development in Suzhou Industrial Park offers hotel, office, retail, and serviced apartments programmes with a 150-metre hotel and office tower, a 150-metre SOHO tower, two 100-metre residential towers and a central commercial podium HLCC Mall.
While facing planning conditions that limit building heights and massing, the four towers are allocated at the four corners of the site to maximise views towards the nearby Jinji Lake. The façade of the two taller towers are also designed in a unified coordination to produce a twin-tower effect.

Suzhou is famously known as ?the paradise on earth?. The architectural design produces a unique organic form which melds seamlessly into the city?s breathtaking landscape.

Horizontal lines dominate the façades and the differences in building heights create a three-dimensional terraced form, reminding people of the terraced tea plantations in the region. The development is also porous and highly accessi...