Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled plans for the 350-meter-high Nanjing Nexus skyscraper in China. Named Nanjing Nexus, the skyscraper was designed for a site near the Yangtze River in the financial district of the Chinese city of Nanjing.
The supertall skyscraper – a building over 300 meters – will have an octagonal shape with fluted sides. The eight concave façades will be clad in diamond-shaped glazing broken by large openings described by the studio as “urban windows.” These openings will contain balconies with a variety of plants and shrubbery, which the firm designed as an interpretation of the gardens and pavilions typically found in the Jiangsu province.
The curved façades and diamond-shaped glazing were designed to improve the building’s solar performance and reduce structural wind load, while also creating a shimmering effect designed to recall the Yangtze River. Nanjing Nexus will contain 150,000 square meters of office space and a 50,000-square-meter hotel. Located on the skyscraper’s upper floors the hotel will be topped with a “sky lobby” with a roof terrace, pool, restaurant, and gardens.
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