The Tencent building is located in the Zhongguancun Technology Park in Beijing's Haidian District. Back in the 1980s, high-tech companies settled there, primarily digital ones. Tencent is located in the newer, second part of the park, where most of the buildings vie for quirkiness and layout. The OMA building is simultaneously larger than others (180x180 m square, 170,000 m2 of floor space) and more restrained in form.
Instead of a skyscraper, which is not around, Rem Koolhaas and his bureau have placed Tencent employees in a 7-story volume, which is nevertheless called a "vertical city". It is divided into "squares", each with its own independent core. The atriums provide the interior with light, the interfloor ceilings recede along the perimeter from the facade, and a recreational zone is formed there. Another is located on a green roof, around the upper floor, which is much smaller in area than the others.
But the main thing in the building is its "cut" corners, as if raised above the ground. As a result, the volume was given dynamics and space was freed up for landscaping, which was carried out by as many as three bureaus - Inside Outside, Maya Lin Studio and Margie Ruddick Landscape. The interiors were commissioned by Woods Bagot, their photographs
can be viewed here.
