Sunshine Insurance Financial Center Beijing Building, China Tower Images, Chinese Architecture Design
Sunshine Insurance Financial Center Beijing
28 Feb 2020
Sunshine Insurance Financial Center in Beijing
Design: Woods Bagot, Architects
Location: Beijing, China
Award-Winning Sunshine Insurance Financial Center Tops Out in Beijing

Sunshine Insurance Financial Center pictured above at center, foreground
Woods Bagot?s Beijing studio and Sunshine Insurance celebrated the topping out of the new Sunshine Insurance Financial Center on January 21, 2020. The 205-meter tall building is located on the East Third Ring Road and Guanghua Road adjacent to the iconic China Media Group headquarters and China World Trade Center.
Challenging the conventional square footprint common to most towers in the CBD, Sunshine Insurance?s ground-level podium takes inspiration from a lotus flower with a bulbous form and an open ceiling that highlights plantings in the garden. The tower reaches skyward from a regular square base on the ground level and gradually ascends to an oval shape on top. The shape of the building rotates upward to create maximum long-distance view for the upper level offices and a 360-degree response to its surroundings. The tower?s façade follows the route of the sun, on which the sunbeam is cast and reflected throughout the day.
?The unique design strategy resolves the site?s limitation as we attempt to maximize the project?s value given a compact site area with other office...