Financial District Taizhou
Client: City of Taizhou / GFA: 470,000 m² / Location: Taizhou, China
Competition: 1st prize 2010
Taizhou, a city with a population of 6 million to the north west of
Shanghai, is to have a new Financial and Banking Centre. HPP are to
design a new, dynamic and sustainable development of just under 470,000
square metres of gross built area on a site measuring 11.5 hectares.
The design, one that fully respects the urban context of the site, is
the sole non-Chinese entry in the competition organised by the Taizhou
Planning Office.
The new Financial District will be arranged along
a treed boulevard running centrally North to South through the
development, which will function as a visual axis linking it to the
Government buildings in the north and thereby also defining the
orientation of the individual buildings. Based on the European
principles of neighbourhood development, these individual buildings
present as homogenous structures with natural stone facades and are of
varying heights. Two 47-storey towers face the site, thus forming the
entrance and in this way mark the transition from the old town to the
new urban development of Taizhou.
