Guangzhou, China
Ping Wang and Guowei Zhang of GWP Architects have designed a mixed-use development tower, reaching a height of 200 meters with a total construction area of approximately 81,000 square meters located in Guangzhou.
Fengsheng 101 has recently been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Awards Honorable Mention by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The north side of the project overlooks Nanxiang Mountain and the south side overlooks Guangzhou Zhujiang New Town, taking full advantage of being at the core of both the Greater Bay Area and the “Innovation Corridor” connecting Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
The project is integrated with the surrounding transportation network, Fengsheng 101, which aims to be another hub for the 1-hour living of Social Circle of the Greater Bay Area.
The owner Fengle Group thrives to carry out its ideal of business, creation, and livability into this complex project that combines a headquarters office, luxury hotels, fashion retails, and garden-like residential apartments by building a comfortable and elegant harbor for the talents in the Greater Bay Area.
The total construction area of the project is approximately 81,000 square meters and a height of 200 meters, including a variety of business formats such as hotels, office spaces, apartments, and retails.
Through conversations with the senior executives of Fengle Group, GWP learned how the company has developed from an innovative breakthrough in the energy industry to a diversified layout of real estate and investment today, just like a seafaring ship sailing with the wind.
The relationship between the two supporting building blocks and the core tube embedded strengthens the overall structural stability and wind resistance while creating a transparent space for use from the north to the south.
The curved surface treatment of the facade and roof not only effectively reduces the wind pressure load of the high-rise but also saves the whole building a significant amount of costs compared to the traditional tower structure.
In terms of landscape layout, the team continued the design concept of the main building, with the breeze blowing over the sea echoing the shape of the building’s sails, and the waterfront design of the front square created a kind of wind and waves motif.
The paving, greening, and streamlined design echo the adjacent Fengsheng Energy Building.
Green areas and ecology are fully integrated into the commercial plaza spaces, seamlessly connecting the surrounding urban green space, forming an overall unified three-dimensional landscape environment, and injecting the comfort of nature into busy city life.
Project: Fengsheng 101
Architects: GWP Architects
Lead Architects: Ping Wang and Guowei Zhang
General Contractor: China Construction Second Engineering Bureau Co. Ltd.
Client: Guangzhou Fengsheng Energy Technology Development Co., Ltd.
Photographs Courtesy of the Architects
