The design brief for this architectural/engineering/ construction company office headquarters in China was to provide design services for the interior architecture, furniture, and lighting design of all of the highly “public” spaces in their new mixed-use multipleform building.

The design areas include, within a six storey wing: a four storey 15,000m2 atrium retail shopping mall, multiple office entrance foyers over several levels, three art gallery/exhibition spaces, a large “public” meeting room and a conference centre, two groups of executive offices and corporate meeting rooms, basement level company cafeteria and nearby badminton hall, and most significantly for the client, a two storey 80 metre long Atrium Gallery, common social, circulation, and informal work space (with tea rooms, library, media room, and individual alcoves) that serves the 600+ architects and engineers in their adjacent studio drafting rooms. At the top three floors of the twentyone storey office tower a company “club” has been constructed: meeting rooms with large breakout space, three dining rooms, an art gallery, and indoor swimming pool, all with large windows overlooking the city and landscape.