LinYi Garden Tower Complex

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Location
LinYi, China
Project
2008
Completion
2011
Client
Jingya Corporation
Scope of Services
Architecture Design
Contract Documents
Gross Floor Area
950,000 sf
Construction Cost
Confidential
Program
Hotel
Residential Towers
Commercial space
Office bridges

The Garden Tower Complex in LinYi, Shandong province, is the result of a visionary developer with a reputation for unconventional thinking, the exceptional site location, and the radical reinvention of  the high-rise typology.

The project challenges the conventional hierarchy of freestanding volumes supported by a podium in the tradition of modern architecture. Here the podium is spatially articulated to express a new hybrid form of verticality. There is no longer a formal distinction or hierarchy between elements, so that voids within the complex flow in a continuum that envelops the users within a vast, interconnected public space.

Within the building, intersecting volumes of comparable size form a variety of configurations and a large range of square footage: loops, lofts, courtyards, and super-floors offer specific conditions to each tenant of the complex.