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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. Poly Greenland Plaza in Shanghai, China by gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und PartnerDecember 19th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner The Poly Greenland Plaza office complex, built to a design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), has been selected for the Award of Excellence of the 2020 CTBUH Awards in the Urban Habitat–District/Master Plan category, which qualifies it as a finalist in the Overall Category. The ensemble of office towers and commercial buildings forms a unique address in the city environment. A generous sequence of plazas and an open shopping arcade create diverse urban qualities that link the complex with its surroundings.  Street elevation, Image Courtesy © Zeng Jianghe
 Pedestrian passage, Image Courtesy © Zeng Jianghe
 Pedestrian passage by twilight, Image Courtesy © HG Esch  Inner courtyards, Image Courtesy © HG Esch In the Yangpu District, close to the city center, a new office and commercial quarter has been created in the direct neighborhood of the Siemens Center Shanghai (gmp, 2011). The Poly Greenland Plaza office complex, which was developed together with the residential area, comprises about 177,000 square meters of high-quality office and shopping facilities above ground, with an additional approx. 97,000 square meters of gross floor area in the three underground stories. The composition of five office towers and lower commercial buildings along the busy Changyang Road creates an independent quarter in the otherwise very heterogeneous urban environment. The facades of the towers, with their vertical variation, give the ensemble a uniform appearance that stands out conspicuously in the city landscape. The design of the buildings finds a middle ground between the different scales and functions of the neighboring buildings: the 50- to 100-meter-high office towers reflect the height of the residential development to the south-east, whereas the lower commercial buildings along the road resonate with the older industrial complexes to the north of Changyang Road.  Image Courtesy © HG Esch  Bird’s-eye view, Image Courtesy © HG Esch Towards the street, the development establishes a clear urban boundary without closing itself off. Instead, the edges provide many points of access: generous plazas open out to the quarter and invite pedestrians to enter the landscaped interior. Sunken courtyards and bridges are used to link the different buildings with each other. This creates an open shopping arcade with many retail outlets on different levels. The flowing arrangement of the rounded pentagonal building volumes creates a diverse sequence of sunny and shaded areas at street level. Bridges lead to the shops on the second floor, whereas sunken courtyards provide access to the retail outlets at basement level with convenient access to the western underground railway network. The envelopes of the buildings consist of curtain-wall facades with coated aluminum for the solid parts between the low-reflection insulating glazing, a design that ensures good energy conservation. Curved glazing at the building corners adds to the character of the ensemble; natural ventilation is achieved via opening casements behind decorative facade panels with ventilation slots on the sides. The nighttime illumination of the high-rise facades emphasizes the verticality of the office towers. The lighting is indirect and has been integrated in each vertical joint between the facade elements and the horizontal facade profiles that provide a visual vertical structure in the facades at different heights. The facades of the lower commercial buildings are emphasized by horizontal, linear lighting at each floor level.  Illumination by night, Image Courtesy © HG Esch  Top view at night, Image Courtesy © HG Esch About the CTBUH awards: The Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) makes its annual awards in 21 categories. In the first step, the recipients of the Award of Excellence are selected from the submitted projects and are then entered for selection of the winners in the Overall Category. The award ceremony takes place during the CTBUH conference in Chicago in April 2020.  Facades, Image Courtesy © Zeng Jianghe  Lobby, Image Courtesy © Zeng Jianghe  Atrium, Image Courtesy © Zeng Jianghe  Office floor, Image Courtesy © Zeng Jianghe  Image Courtesy © gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner  Image Courtesy © gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner  Image Courtesy © gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner  Image Courtesy © gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner  Image Courtesy © gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner  Image Courtesy © gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
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