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Raffles City Hangzhou Award
New Urban Hub Development in China for CapitaLand, Asia – design by UNStudio / Ben van Berkel
31 May 2019
Raffles City Hangzhou Award News
Design: UNStudio / Ben van Berkel
Raffles City Hangzhou conferred World Gold Winner of Retail Category at 2019 FIABCI World Prix d?Excellence Awards
Designed by world-renowned architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, Raffles City Hangzhou features two gently-rotating towers inspired by the ebb and flow of the iconic Qiantang River nearby. The distinctive curtain wall of the towers is made up of more than 10,000 pieces of glass panels of varying dimensions and more than 100,000 aluminium panels, which contribute to the unique visual effect of the building changing appearance under various light conditions and at different angles:
photo courtesy of architects
Singapore, 31 May 2019 ? Raffles City Hangzhou, CapitaLand?s largest operational Raffles City development, has been named the World Gold Winner in the Retail Category at the prestigious 2019 FIABCI World Prix d?Excellence Awards held in Moscow, Russia on 30 May 2019. This follows the footsteps of ION Orchard in Singapore and Raffles City Chengdu in China, which won in the same Retail Category in 2013 and 2015 respectively. Raffles City Hangzhou is the only commercial development from China feted at this year?s Awards.
Mr Lucas Loh, President & CEO of China, CapitaLand Gr...