SOHO Shangdu in Beijing, China

February 17, 2011 Category: Commercial Building, Retail

SOHO Shangdu that located in Beijing, China, was designed by LAB architecture studio. The project’s retail spaces deliberately creates activated street frontages and the internal retail areas were designed on the principle of a vertical hutong with a series of internal streets and passages which vary in their width and circulation patterns and in doing so create localised and specialist zones. Two large internal courtyards vertically link all the floors and provide an auditoria for a range of events from fashion parades, commercial launches to concerts and festival activities.

The facetted facades of the two towers are clad in a random pattern of glass and aluminum panels and inscribed with a large scale geometrical network of lines which at night create continuous light lines that form a distinctive nocturnal image for the project.

SOHO Shangdu design by LAB architecture studioSOHO Shangdu design by LAB architecture studio

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