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BEST COMMERCIAL HIGH-RISE ARCHITECTURE ASIA PACIFIC Bravo Tower, Pazhou Architect: Aedas Client: Bravo Group
BEST COMMERCIAL HIGH-RISE ARCHITECTURE CHINA Bravo Tower, Pazhou Architect: Aedas Client: Bravo Group
HIGHLY COMMENDED MIXED-USE ARCHITECTURE CHINA Hengqin International Financial Center Architect: Aedas Client: Zhuhai Shizimen Central Business District Development Holdings Co., Ltd.
Bravo Tower, Pazhou
environmental performance as well as
Grade A office buildings, conference and
its seamless integration into the
exhibition amenities, business apartments
surrounding landscape.
and commercial services. It covers a site
With Bravo Tower, Pazhou in
Shizimen CBD and has a total floor area
a developing CBD required Aedas to
of 138,158m². Surrounded by water, this
create a design that would be distinct
plot has panoramic mountain views and
from the surrounding context. The brief
offers great flexibility and advantages
was for a 250 metre high, 100,000m²,
for the orientation and layout of the
mixed-use, high-rise development for the
building. Taking inspiration from a spirally
Bravo Group. It was to combine prime
rising volume resembling the well-known
commercial office space, a boutique
Chinese idiom of a flood dragon bursting
hotel, gym, clubhouse, retail outlets
from the sea, Aedas has designed a truly
and F&B. The greatest challenge was
iconic four-tower building. Shanghai K2 Xinhua Lu in Shanghai,
occupiers so that each party could
China consists of an 80,300m² shopping
operate their portion autonomously
mall and three blocks of offices totalling
and provide the commercial flexibility to
76,700m². Its fluid flow of ‘clouds’ provide
sell or lease independently. The resulting
an ecological canopy over the scheme,
design combines the flexibility of two
creating a dynamic as well as seductive
separate towers in a single construction.
form. This design responds to its
This means that the privately owned
surrounding art and cultural atmosphere
spaces of each client are manifested as
and also combines the two different
programmatic blocks, perfectly divided by
characters of a shopping street and a
shared public spaces.
mall. There is an outdoor pedestrian
Hengqin International Financial
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area of 18,421m² on the north end of
Guangzhou, the tower’s situation within
to accommodate two future owners/
20 Asia Pacific Property Awards
Hengqin International Financial Center
Center in Zhuhai City, China includes
route across the shopping mall, climbing from level one to five. Together with the
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