Twin towers like dark peaks

Beijing, China

Chaoyang Park Plaza

On the southern edge of the largest remaining park in a central business district, this 220,000 square metre complex of ten buildings unfolds like a classical shanshui painting at the scale of the city, an ink landscape on the skyline.

Two office towers rise like mountain peaks, pulled together by a bright, transparent atrium beneath a connecting glass roof. Lower buildings around them read as rocks and hills among water and trees, and two residential buildings to the southwest continue the idea of open-air living with staggered balconies that give every apartment sunlight and a closeness to nature.

The project received LEED Gold certification, with the idea of nature carried into its green technology as much as its form.

Project Information

Design studio
MAD Architects
Area
220,000 m²
Time
2017
Primary materials
Glass, Natural stone, Steel
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