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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

SOHO Hailun Plaza in Shanghai, China by UNStudio

August 21st, 2013 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: UNStudio

The SOHO Hailun plaza is located at the intersection of two metro lines, providing excellent connections to public transport and therefore a desirable location foroffice and retail. The general massing of the project consists of a 33 storey high tower and a series of smaller mixed-use pavilions.

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Architects: UNStudio
Project: SOHO Hailun Plaza
Location: Shanghai, China
Client: SOHOChina, Beijing
Building surface: 112,132 m2 (GFA)
Building volume: 500,550 m3
Building site: 28,103 m2
Programme: 130m office tower and 5 retail-office pavilions
Status: Under construction
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Astrid Piber with Hannes Pfau, Markus van Aalderen and Luis Etchegorry, Ger Gijzen and Cynthia Markhoff, Veronica Baraldi, Joerg Lonkwitz, Shuojiong Zhang, Severin Tuerk, Paxton Sheldahl, Tomas Mokry, Nathan Melenbrink, Caroline Smith, Dan Luo, Yue Zhou, Alan Chin Che Hung, Nan Jiang

Advisors

LDI: TJAD
Facade: Inhabit
Lighting: a-g Licht

Image Courtesy © UNStudio

Placed as objects in the flow of commuters, the buildings organiseoutdoor spaces of different scales and provide a platform for a variety of urban activities. The facade design emphasises the buildings as singular objects.The curved geometry of the buildings,with strong vertical lines, anchors the buildings within the city. The faceted and colored texture of the facades will provide achanging appearance when approached from different directions,addingto the dynamics of this Shanghai location.

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Tags: China, Shanghai

Category: Plaza

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