Vanke Shenzhen Headoffice, Shenzhen, China
Winner: CL3 Architects Ltd.
Award: Merit Award for Interior Design

This corporate office is about 8,000m2 on 4 floors. A triple height atrium was created by knocking out the slabs on 2 floors, resulting in a white cubic space, linked with 2 glass bridges structurally suspended from the ceiling, which becomes the heart of the office, where major corporate activities and celebrations can take place. The office is arranged systematically around this cubic space. Inside the cube is the reception which also doubles up as an assembly space that can accommodate the entire office on the floor and the 2 bridges. Outside this cube are the offices and meeting rooms, which look back into the cube through louvered walls. A grand circular stair and 2 glass elevators was introduced to link the 4 levels together. An open work station occupies half of each of the other 3 levels, and the entire lowest level which is linked to the cubic atrium by a straight run stair.

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