KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten was just awarded the first prize for their design of the Dual Tower for the High-Tech and Research Campus in Foshan, China. The 170-meter high dual tower denotes the start of the new business district in the south of the city, a prefecture-level city in the southern Chinese province Guangdong. Its exposed location, height, and function in the urban fabric as the first building on the Sino-German High-Tech and Research Campus means that the dual tower is conceived as a landmark. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Covering a surface area of 170,000 m² (GSA), the office high-rise has room for a total of 4,850 workstations. Explaining the design, Johannes Reinsch, Managing Director of KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten International GmbH, says “the building was specially designed with the subtropical local climate in mind and with a view to keeping resources and pollutant emission to a minimum. The integrated design approach is in response to China’s rapid development into a knowledge-based and increasingly more sustainable economy, which is generating increasing demand for high-quality office space.”
