Shenzhen, China
Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, the HONY Center comprises two towers, a 55,000 square meters office building that will house Hony Capital’s headquarters and a 25,000 square meters residential building, spanning two blocks in Qianhai Harbor’s Financial District
The Hony Center has recently been awarded a 2022 American Architecture Awards Honorable Mention and 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 tower facing Guimiao Boulevard serves as the private equity firm’s new headquarters.
On the other end, at the intersection between Guiwan 5th Road and Financial 8th Street, the residential tower extends 25,000 square meters.
The two buildings are connected below grade by a parking lot as well as bridging the subterranean subway system.
The base of HONY Capital’s headquarters welcomes tenants into the office space through a three-story lobby, which elevates and animates the development.
The tower features two slim facades on opposite ends – one glass and the other stone.
The glass allows ample natural light to fill the office space, while the juxtaposition of stone exists on the opposite end of the material spectrum, resulting in a lively and varied character.
A column structure provides a highly flexible work environment.
At the northeast corner of the development, the 30-story residential tower is rotated to align with a north-south axis.
A sliding bar motif and a sympathetic wall expression draw the two towers together to create a dynamic composition.
This liberates the northwest corner of the site to become a generously landscaped public green plaza.
Project: Hony Centre
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.
Lead Architect: Hugh Trumbull
Associate Architects: Zhubo Design Group Co., Ltd.
General Contractor: Guangzhou Jangho Curtain Wall System Engineering Co., Ltd.
Client: Hony Capital
Photographers: Su Zhewei, Chen Fu, and Xing Zhang
