SHENZHEN | China Resources Headquarters Main Tower | 525m | 1722ft | Prep

[Eastern37]

Boring? How is it boring? I find it a great design! Very architecturally interesting and as you said it's original!

[patrykus]

I said it's not original since it was proposed for so many projects already. And whats so great about it anyway? Anyone could design an extended snot

[Eastern37]

You also said it hasn't been built So except for the few people who have seen the design proposed before eon here it will be original to the rest of the world! I would love to see your attempt at designing this!

[patrykus]

Its round and tapering to the one point. You can't get more simpler than that And if it wouldn't be so simple it wouldn't be proposed by so many random design studios. But anyways simple shapes can be beautiful too as boxes for instance, but this one seems very pretentious and cheep to me. It look like they were desperate to make it "cool" like: You know what, lets make it round, round is cool and modern eyy.. But that isn't enough when you have really no concept beside this. Because look at shanghai tower for instance, its round and it looks good because designers have some concept. And it's really irritating that wee have this teardrop concept seen so many times and some design studio just came up with it again as it was some masterpiece.

[KillerZavatar]

i agree it's not too original of a design, but i was waiting for a design like this becoming reality for quite a while now. and Shenzhen would be a great place for it to happen

oh and i hated the web-cladding design a lot, i never liked these designs, so i am pretty excited if the new design is for real

[Jay]

What a skyline... I love Chinese cities!

[z0rg]

+500m and +100 floors according to this. Published in March 2012.

深圳湾华润中心项目概况

华润集团总部大厦位于深圳湾体育中心（“春茧”）南侧，楼高超过500米，层数超过100层，预计建成后(2014-2015年)将成为中国十大高楼之一。总部大厦展示华润集团的卓越形象，必将成为华润置地“精细设计准则、毫厘工程标准、情感悉心服务”高品质战略最佳实践的代表作，成为国内最高品质的写字楼和超五星级酒店。

http://special.zhaopin.com/sz/2012/hr021629/index.html

[KillerZavatar]

500m+ and this project just got even more interesting

[z0rg]

By 1788111

[bearb]

nice view

[RobertWalpole]

Cool!

[z0rg]

By crazyboyxzy

[INFERNAL ELF]

Great plot there by the lake and park. and the cladding is cool its about time one of those web designs come to life on a big scale.

[DoubleU]

There is still no final design. It all depends on the wind tunnel testings, approval of the Planning Bureau, etc.
There are more considerations about the shape, either triangular, circular or a square one. We simply have to wait. But it seems like it will not be a +500m tower, rather a +450m.

[everywhere]

Originally Posted by DoubleU

There is still no final design. It all depends on the wind tunnel testings, approval of the Planning Bureau, etc.
There are more considerations about the shape, either triangular, circular or a square one. We simply have to wait. But it seems like it will not be a +500m tower, rather a +450m.

So good news for architectural firms who wants to bid for the final design and structure...

[DoubleU]

Kick-off meeting for SD stage with archi's, client, consultants was on July 18. Seems the client wanna start excavation asap and do the whole site at once, with main focus on the main tower plot (~20.000m2). Guess we can excpect the start of excavation around March-May 2013.
The design/architect for the ~300m tall hotel tower beside the main tower is also not confirmed yet.

[syh101]

One of their latest projects is designing a 1,640-foot-tall headquarters in Shenzhen for one of China’s largest companies, China Resources — and the 1,640-foot-radius around the building. When completed around 2017, that building is expected to be one of the tallest in China, says von Klemperer.

Katz and von Klemperer are the managing principal and design principal, respectively, of the New York-based architectural firm KPF, with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, London, and Abu Dhabi.

[z0rg]

http://www.wtpartnership.com/project...-shenzhen-bay/


China Resources Shenzhen Bay

Client
China Resources Shenzhen Bay Development Company Limited

Project Value
RMB 7 billion

Design
Kohn Pederson Fox Associates

China Resources Shenzhen Bay is a composite development which includes three headquarter buildings of China Resources (Holding) Company Limited. The Project is located in Shenzhen Bay, the new Shenzhen CBD in future. It comprises a over 500 meters high Headquarter Tower of China Resources (Holding) Company Limited, a 250 meters high CR Capital Holdings Headquarter Building, a 180 meters high CR Vanguard Headquarter Building, 100,000 square meters residential development and shopping malls.

WTP was awarded the commission to provide full quantity surveying services in early 2012.

[z0rg]

Well, likely 500m then. Huge pity, I was expecting this one to become a new megatall surprise.

[KillerZavatar]

Originally Posted by z0rg

Well, likely 500m then. Huge pity, I was expecting this one to become a new megatall surprise.

we still have ping an and caiwuwei ;-) and the final designs are not out yet, so who knows maybe we get a 550m+ deal out of it