Tencent Global Headquarters
The traditional model for corporate design places companies in a singular high-rise, or multiple low-rise buildings. The linked configuration of the Tencent Seafront Towers activates movement and exchange within the workplace, creating horizontal “streetscapes” and vertical connections.
The Tencent Seafront Towers adapt the connectivity of a suburban tech campus into an urban high rise, reflecting the company’s rising international influence, networked culture and the interconnectivity of the web while providing space for 12,000 employees and nearly quadrupling the size of Tencent’s current real estate portfolio.
Features
The slight rotation of the towers and their offset heights capture the site’s prevailing winds, ventilating the atria while minimizing exposure to direct sun, and the curtain wall incorporates a modular shading system that varies according to the degree of sun exposure to control glare and heat-gain.
Project Details
Client Name
Tencent
Square Footage
270,000 SF
Program
Two towers, three horizontal connection bridges, rooftop gardens
Services
Architecture (core and shell), lighting design
Phase
Complete
Client Name
Tencent
Square Footage
270,000 SF
Program
Two towers, three horizontal connection bridges, rooftop gardens
Services
Architecture (core and shell), lighting design
Phase
Complete
CREDAWARD, Gold Award
CTBUH Highrise Awards, finalist
IES Illumination Award of Merit
MIPIM Asia Gold Award, Best Chinese Futura Mega Project
MIPIM Asia Gold Award, Best Office & Business Development
CREDAWARD, Gold Award
CTBUH Highrise Awards, finalist
IES Illumination Award of Merit
MIPIM Asia Gold Award, Best Chinese Futura Mega Project
MIPIM Asia Gold Award, Best Office & Business Development
Dezeen, “NBBJ completes ‘vertical campus’ for Tencent's headquarters in Shenzhen”
Fast Company, “A Suburban Tech Campus In The Sky”
The Los Angeles Times, “China Internet giant Tencent building audacious new headquarters”
Wired, “Architects Invent the Future of Work”
WSJ, “Booming Tech Sector Redraws the Map”
Dezeen, “NBBJ completes ‘vertical campus’ for Tencent's headquarters in Shenzhen”
Fast Company, “A Suburban Tech Campus In The Sky”
The Los Angeles Times, “China Internet giant Tencent building audacious new headquarters”
Wired, “Architects Invent the Future of Work”
WSJ, “Booming Tech Sector Redraws the Map”
