Moganshan Road Office Building

The ten-storey office building stands in a mixed district near a quiet park. In this dense setting, the British design team gave it a clear geometric form and placed the slim volume in the middle of the site, keeping a distance from its neighbours.

Raised above street level, the building sits as if on a stage, and the shaped ground around it creates several transitions from the city into the building. All the exterior stone surfaces are of the same matt grey basalt.

The reinforced concrete frame is expressed on the façade by large copper cassettes, while smaller hand-seamed copper sheets clad the areas around the windows, adding refinement. Rectangular columns on the narrow sides make the building look slender. Inside, the structure at the perimeter allows column-free floors arranged as a ring around a central core, each divisible into two units.