Aedas has won the conceptual design competition for the G60 Innovation Center. The project is part of the Lingang Songjiang Science and Technology City, located in Songjiang District in southwest Shanghai. In the overall planning of the area, the design assigns the Innovation Central Avenue as a central axis, along which commercial, office, conference, entertainment, and hotel elements are symmetrically laid out.
Plot 10-A1 and 10-B1 on the southern tip will serve as an iconic gateway of the entire development. It houses the headquarters offices, hotel and serviced apartments, a convention center, a theatre and a retail mall of 110,000 square meters. Linked by a circular sky bridge, the four towers encircles the center of the central axis, while four low-rise buildings also connected by bridges are located on the east and west sides, ensuring the interconnection and accessibility between formats. Traffic from all directions can gather in the activity square enclosed by the center of the plot, serving as a lively platform for interaction.
The development retreats in the middle while the four towers are slanted to reproduce an image of a butterly. The circular bridge is envisioned as “the eye of science and technology”, representing the integration of technology, nature and art.
On the centripetal side of the tower, a smaller butterfly is carved out from below the sky bridge with a golden aluminum outline; it emphasises the motif and serves as a focal point of the development. It adopts transparent glass panels with horizontal aluminum plates to distinguish itself from the outer curtain wall.
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