| SHENZHEN STOCK EXCHANGE, CHINA, SHENZHEN, 2006 |
| The new headquarters for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange |
By OMA © All rights reserved
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For millennia, the solid building stands on a solid base; it is an image that has survived modernity. Typically, the base anchors a structure and connects it emphatically to the ground. The essence of the stock market is speculation: it is based on capital, not gravity. In the case of Shenzhen's almost virtual stock market, the role of symbolism exceeds that of the program – it is a building that has to represent the stock market, more than physically accommodate it. It is not a trading arena with offices, but an office with virtual organs that suggest and illustrate the process of the market. more... |
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FACT SHEET
Status: Competition: 1st Prize 2006 Completion: April 2011 Client: Shenzhen Stock Exchange Site: 132,000m2 in the downtown area of Shenzhen at the meeting point of the north-south axis between Mount Lianhua and Binhe Boulevard, and the east-west axis of Shennan Road, Shenzhen's main artery. Program: Total 200,000 m2: rental offices, registration & clearing house, accessory area, securities information company, SSE office area, trading floor, technical operations area.. COLLABORATORS Level Acoustic: DHV Building and Industry: Bertie van de Braak, Caroline Kaas, Renz van Luxemburg, Theo Rijmakers Landscape: Inside Outside: Petra Blaise, Rosetta Elkin, Aura Melis QS: L&B Quantity Surveyors: Law Hing Wai, Melody Huang Structure, Services, Fire, Project Management, Vertical Transportation, Building Physics, Building Intelligence, Geotechnics, Lighting, SADI: Arup: Michael Kwok, Rory McGowan, Nancy Huang, Chas Pope, Kai-Sing Yung, Oliver Kwong more... |
CREDITS
Partner in charge: Rem Koolhaas Partner: Ellen van Loon General manager: David Gianotten Project leader: Michael Kokora Team: Kunle Adeyemi (associate), Yang Yang, Vincent Kersten, Daan Ooievaar, Yun Zhang, Ryann Aoukar, Sebastian Appl, Waichuen Chan, Jan Dechow, Leo Ferretto, Clarisa Garcia Fresco, Alasdair Graham, Leonie Wenz, Richard Sharam, Laura Baird, Matthew Jull, Franscesca Portesine, Lukasz Skalec, Lukasz Szlachcic, Lukas Drasnar, Christine Svensson, Matthew Haseltine, Jaitian Gu, João Ferreira Marques Jesus, Alex de Jong, Santiago Hierro Kennedy, Klaas Kresse, Miranda Lee, Anna Little, Luxiang Liu, David Eugin Moon, Cristina Murphy, Idrees Rasouli, Korbinian Schneider, Wolfgang Schwarzwalder, Felix Schwimmer, Michela Tonus, Miroslav Vavrina, Ferdjan Van der Pijl, Na Wei, Xinyuan Wang, Ken Yang Tan, Su Xia, Yunchao Xu more... PRESS Rolling Stones, 29 May 2008 Architects' Journal, 3 January 2007 Southeast Asia Building, January 2008 Courrier Journal, 23 December 2007 The Big Project #13, 2007 more... |
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