CBI member, Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for a 350-metre-tall skyscraper in Shenzhen that will serve as the headquarters for China Merchants Bank. The tower will be the first building in the city’s new ‘Super Headquarters District’, a new economic hub being built in the city to help it reach its goal, as set out in the 13th Five-Year Plan, of becoming a ‘super economic centre’ housing 13,000 banking staff.
Foster + Partners’ design features a tower with structural supports running along the outside on the east and west sides, meaning that every office floor – together amounting to 310,000 square metres – will be open and column free.
Grant Brooker, head of studio at Foster + Partners said: “The tower’s design represents a significant step in the evolution of the workplace, which we have evolved in close partnership with the client to create a highly flexible floorplate that can be adjusted to their fast-changing needs and provide an excellent working environment for their staff. The building will be a symbol of the bank’s premier status in the industry, embodying its strong legacy while looking firmly towards the future.”
Foster + Partners’ design also features a quadruple height glazed atrium at the top of the building, which will be open to customers of the bank, and will house a gallery, event spaces, meeting rooms and dining areas. A separate art gallery and fitness facility for employees will be included in the building’s lower levels.
The design firm is also designed an accompanying 180-metre high hotel and office tower, along with shops and other amenities close to the China Merchants Bank Tower.
Young Wei-Yang Chiu, partner at Foster + Partners said: “The tower forms part of a new complex that will connect with the next phase of the Shenzhen Bay development, featuring a well-connected urban square linked with the metro, retail, cultural spaces and Shenzhen Bay’s amazing waterfront.”
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