Prince’s Building is located at the southern tip of Shenzhen on the Nantou Peninsula, in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Surrounded by water on three sides, Shekou wraps around the verdant Danan and Xiaonan mountains. It is this relationship between dramatic subtropical oceanfront scenery and rich human activity that generated the inspiration for SPARK’s design.
On a broad urban scale, the office tower will be the project’s most distinctive component. Located on the corner of Taizi and Gongye third roads the office tower rises from a new verdant public square to a height of 27 levels marking the location of the most important commercial and leisure destination in Shekou. The tower has been designed to provide 1100m2 of column free flexible floorplates with full digital connectivity to meet the demands of 21st century office users. Each office floor has full height glazing with spectacular ocean views over Shenzhen bay with mountain views to the North.
Inspiration for the landscape design was drawn from the human-oriented scale of Shekou and the rich natural landscape surrounding the town itself – including the rich layers of rock in the surrounding mountains. The distinctive synergy between indoor and outdoor spaces offered the opportunity to create a seamless integration of interior and landscape design in and around the retail components.
The landscape will weave through the development in physical and conceptual synergy with the horizontally layered architecture. It will be composed of banded stone layers punctuated by elegant metallic accent strips, which will glow at night. The accent strips were inspired by the seams of precious elements found in naturally occurring rock formations.