Bao?an Cultural Complex, Shenzhen Library and Cultural Centre Buildings, Architecture Images
Bao?an Cultural Complex in Shenzhen
Contemporary Mixed-Use Building Project, China ? design by Rocco Design Architects Associates Design
5 Dec 2019
Bao?an Cultural Complex
Architects: Rocco Design Architects Associates
Location: Shenzhen, China

Baoan Cultural Complex – Library night view ? photo © Wade Zimmerman
Overlooking Quanhai Bay and the South China Sea, Bao?an Cultural Complex is a masterplan of buildings that create a new public campus for the city while mediating between the coastal landscape and the more densely developed commercial areas further inland. The 110,000-square-meter scheme?which includes a library, cultural centre, as well as a performing arts venue?won an invited international competition. The Library and the Youth Palace and Cultural Centre were completed as part of the first phase. An additional performing arts centre is currently under construction and will complete in 2020, finishing the development.
Baoan Cultural Complex – Library day view 02 ? photo © Wade Zimmerman
The masterplan places the three buildings aligned on a central axis that extends from the inner city to the coastline. A series of public plazas interwoven in between join the structures into a cohesive cultural campus, offer new public gathering spaces overlooking the water and link the city and the coastline with a sequence of indoor and outdoor spaces.

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