Via ArchDaily: “The Four Towers in One Competition asked participants to design an office tower complex for the new Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters in the Futian business district. The area was in need of a unified urban plan that would include the Headquarters for the new office towers of Shenzhen Media Group, China Construction Bank, China Insurance Group, and Southern & Bosera Funds. For Morphosis’ proposal, rather than creating various disconnected vertical skyscrapers, the project aims to create one cohesive, interwoven district. By conceiving the sites as 3-dimensional envelopes rather than flat 2-dimensional footprints, the buildings can be interwoven to facilitate a network of interlocking forms reminiscent of the venerated Chinese puzzle.”
“The tower is designed to become rooted in a new urban fabric that fluidly connects other built forms and civic spaces. Each tower does not have its own identity but rather together, the towers create a scheme that includes the entire Financial District as a new type of icon, a district with its own unique character amidst the greater city of Shenzhen. The result of this strategy is a holistic scheme that is greater than the sum of its parts-where integration and collaboration create enormous pragmatic and symbolic potential for all stakeholders.”
