Chengdu NBD Centre Architecture by Wai Tang and Kelvin Chu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Platinum A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
PlatinumArchitecture· 2022
Chengdu NBD Centre Architecture
Client: Chengdu Media Group
Platinum A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Chengdu NBD Centre Architecture
Chengdu NBD Centre is a mixed use office and cultural complex in Chengdu, China. The project includes twin office towers of 120 metres, a podium and an underground level, with a total area of 171,650 square metres. The below ground retail level connects directly to adjacent metro lines and neighbouring plots. A large sunken civic plaza draws visitors to the ground level, where multi-level links lead to retail and cultural spaces within the podium. A breathing facade supports natural ventilation, and media LED panels are integrated into the facade surface.
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About the Platinum A' Design Award
Chengdu NBD Centre Architecture is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Chengdu NBD Centre Architecture exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Chengdu NBD Centre Architecture is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
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- Unique Properties
- Located close to Jiaozi Park, Guixi Ecological Park and the Jinjiang River, the Chengdu NBD Centre it is one of the first of many iconic projects in the Jiaozi Park business district and an important fulcrum of a world park like business district in Chengdu. As an extension of the park into the development, our goal was to create a new Cultural Icon for Chengdu and a place of destination with a green low carbon public realm for the city.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Area: 171,650m2
120m twin office tower - Tags
- Chengdu, NBD Centre, Smart City, LED Facade, breathing facade
- Production Technology
- Together with world class environmental consultant Atelier 10, we devised a breathing façade to maximize natural ventilation for most of the year as well as exploring way to achieve PRC 3 Star Green Building. With grey water collection and multi-level green roof system.
Apart from being a fully breathing façade, we explored ways of creating developable surfaces to minimise curve glazing and an elegant way to integrate media LED into the façade. - Inspiration
- Chengdu like other first tier cities in China is congested with vehicular traffic. During the inception of this competition, the site was still a virgin land with metro line 6 and 9 under planning stage. Here is an opportunity respond to this congestion by looking into way of reducing above ground traffic. It was imperative at the design stage to seamlessly connect to the adjacent stations resulting to a fully integrated Transport Orientated Development (TOD).
- Project Duration
- Location: Chengdu, Sichuan Province China
- Operation Flow
- The NBD centre is divided into 3 distinctive sections, Below Ground, Podium and Main Towers all interconnected by pockets of public realm. The below ground retail connects the underground connections and metro lines into the development. A large sunken civic plaza draws visitors to the ground level where multi-level linkages take visitors to retail and cultural attraction within the podium levels. The main towers are designed house various types of digital media and cultural offices, digital art gallery and exhibition centres.
- Team Members
- Kelvin Chu
Wai Tang
Adrian Pang
Eric Wen
Schnee Li
Yolanda Xian
Tim He
Jimmy Li
Marco Chui
Shizhao Li
Maggie Yang
Larry Liu
Francisco Barrera - Image Credits
- SAN and QUAD
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