Shanghai Tower is a 128-story, 632-meter-tall (2,073 ft) megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. It is the tallest building in China and the world’s third-tallest building by height to architectural top. It is the tallest and largest LEED Platinum certified building in the world since 2015. It shares the record of having the world’s highest…
This 4-Star Hospitability project was designed to complement the existing Show DC Mall located near Rama 9 road in Bangkok, Thailand. As tourism in Thailand is a booming market, a 4-Star Hotel was the appropriate level of finish and services to be provided in this location. The projects form is derived from zoning regulations in…
This prime site is located on the famous 16th street pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado. The program brief, to enlarge the hotel by overtaking the adjacent surface car park site owned by the client. The challenge when working in a historic district, is to honor the surrounding context without copying the historical buildings. To…
hanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, was the first Free Trade Zone to be established in China. It is situated in the North East of Pudong District, near the end of Metro Line 6. It was incorporated as part of the newly developed China Pilot Free-Trade Zone in 2013 and mostly built-out by 2018. The overall…
Wuhan as a second tier China city is known to be up and coming, this project located in the heart of Wuhan’s CBD (central business district) directly on the Yangtze River frontage is a very recognizable to the city’s skyline. With a small site and a large amount of FAR (floor area ratio) the design…
The Leadership Campus was conceived by the president of CP Group, to provide a place to exchange information and to bring up the ingenuity/quality of leadership across CP’s thousands of employees around the world. The Washington D.C. and Bangkok Gensler offices collaborated on this project from Concept through Construction Administration. Our team worked under the…
Yangcheng International Airport and the future growth of the region are key developments for Jiangsu and for China’s national development strategy. The new terminal and the future flexibility of the airport and its surrounding master planning areas are strategic projects for furthering Yangcheng’s growing economy. Airports of the today are no longer single entities, but…
Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, was the first Free Trade Zone to be established in China. It is situated in the North East of Pudong District, near the end of Metro Line 6. It was incorporated as part of the newly developed China Pilot Free-Trade Zone in 2013 and mostly built-out by 2018. This large-scale…
The idea behind this massive mixed-use master planning project, was to create a new town center for the city of Changsha, China. The buildings represented as individual shining stars, a splendid cluster, a whole system linked by galaxy pedestrian bridge, hence the concept of Constellation of Stars. As a major new Central Business District, the…
A key piece of program, which is set in the larger master plan of the Free Trade Zone established by China of Waigaoqiao, is the Sunland International Museum & Hotel. The structure is conceived based on Vitruvius’s golden triangle geometry, the circular portion of the Museum slowly rotates and jets out to create the complementary…
