Dongjiadu Financial City
- Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
- Location: Shanghai Tower
- Client: Zhongming Bund Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., CMIG (China Minsheng Investment Group)
- Design Architect: KPF, Aedas, ECARDI, GOA, Parsons Brinkerhoff (PB)
- Type: Master-plan, Mixed-Use
- Size: 700,000 m2 / 7,542,272 ft2
- Building Height: 300 m
- Building Function: Office, Service Department, Commercial & Apartment
- Status: Commissioned/On-going
- Interior Design: SLD
- Landscape Design: Place Design Group (Shanghai)
As the new centerpiece of Shanghai's West Bund district, this complex development merges diverse programs while preserving the human scale of its traditional urban vernacular.
Conceived as a coherent family of building forms, the architecture is carefully composed as a series of stepped volumes. Eleven buildings gather over 450,000 square meters of office accommodation, with each tower rising gradually in height towards a 300 meter tall landmark tower. This plan also includes substantial retail environment in the building podiums and a below grade mall that is connected both site wide wide and to adjacent public transportation networks. A Ritz-Carlton hotel located at the upper levels of the landmark tower and a series of residential towers complete this integrated mixed use community.
The development is gathered around a central, landscaped park at the heart the design, this significant public open space continues to the Huangpu river at the East of the development and up onto the terraced podiums of the buildings. The facades of the buildings exhibit extended rectangular forms of different heights, accenting the buildings silhouettes and echoing the rectilinear language of the surrounding structures.
Dongjiadu Financial City: The Ritz-Carlton Residences is the representative of urban high-end residential projects in the Bund, the financial district of Shanghai. The site consists of eastern block and western block distributed in L-shape, Public buildings are laid out in the east and north of the site while old residences in the west. Low educational buildings are arranged in the south while the northeast side is planned with a large-scale urban public square. The project aims to create high-quality residential experience through mitigating the conflict between traditional cultural context and future development.
Through analysis of sightline, the design determines the main orientation of each building, and changes angle and broadens space interval to provide each building with a relatively ideal landscape view. The public space in the community is one of the typical features of this project: Buildings are connected with each other via galleries interspersed with landscape, while the galleries are seamlessly connected with the empty space to present rich and smooth moving lines, which is really intriguing.
With a full respect for urban context, the project seeks to harmonize the surroundings in material selection. Meanwhile, it is envisioned to build architectural character and exhibit the taste of Shanghai-style culture through metal splicing, stone wrapping, glazing and other subtle changes in material combination.
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