Located in the core of Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD) at the intersection of Jianguo Road and Jinhe East Road, the new Z8 Tower faces the CBD’s central park and is defined by the historic alignment and urbanism of the city’s Chang’an Avenue.
Z8 Tower’s design by ZHA creates an integrated mixed-use ‘vertical city’ of office floors together with shopping, dining, cultural and leisure facilities that are connected with the local subway and national rail network.
Combining open office floors with shared atrium spaces and civic amenities, the 140-metre-tall Z8 Tower creates a highly adaptable spatial framework to accommodate the diverse and evolving requirements of modern enterprises.
The western façade incorporates a series of verandas and atria that bring the adjacent central park into the tower’s core to define a gallery of planted terraces that extends through the full height of the building and connects with the sunken courtyard at the base of the tower.
Integrating Z8’s architecture with the natural landscaping of the district’s central park, the design welcomes the city into the heart of the building and establishes an inviting new window into the dynamism of Beijing’s Central Business District.
Vertical external fins extend from the mullions supporting Z8’s unitised glazed system to provide effective solar shading during the summer months of Beijing’s continental climate. The optimized thermal enclosure of Z8’s design minimizes heat-loss during the city’s cold winter months when temperatures average below freezing. Extensive public galleries and atria throughout the design enhance natural daylight and ventilation to optimize the comfort of occupants and further improve the tower’s environmental performance.
Integrating its cohesive spatial logic and layered terraces within the surrounding urbanism and natural landscaping of the district’s central park, Z8’s design is defined by the dynamism of China’s capital and the city’s position as a global business, administrative and creative hub.
Team:
Architect: ZHA
ZHA Principal: Patrik Schumacher
ZHA Project Directors: Satoshi Ohashi, Paulo Flores, Yang Jingwen
ZHA Project Associates: Xuexin Duan, Martin Pfleger
ZHA Project Architects: Lida Zhang, Bo Zhang
ZHA Project Team: Xuan Zhao, Xinyue Cao , Junxue Piao, Xiangfan Chen, Berkin Islam, Ding Kuai, Jiamin Lu, Junfei Chen, Junya Huang, Rui Zhao, Sven Torres, Weimeng Zhang, Wenbo Yao
ZHA Competition Project Directors: Satoshi Ohashi, Paulo Flores, Yang Jingwen
ZHA Competition Associate: Xuexin Duan
ZHA Competition Project Architect: Lida Zhang, Martin Gsandtner
ZHA Competition Project Lead: Bo Zhang
ZHA Competition Team: Berkin Islam, Ding Kuai, Hamze Machmouchi, Huiyuan Li, Junxue Piao, Junya Huang, Keyur Mistry, Liyuan Gao, Wenbo Yao, Xinyue Cao, Yuling Ma, Yushan Chen, Shang Li, Lianyuan Ye, Xu Zheng, Yuchao Zhang, Alex Nap, Veronica Chen, Ceren Tekin, Niran Buyukkoz, Karina Linnsen
ZHA Environmental & Sustainability Team: Carlos Bausa Martinez, Shibani Choudhury
ZHA+I: Uli Blum, Danial Haziq Hamdan
Consultants
Local Architect: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
Structural Engineers: China Academy of Building Research
Façade Engineering: Inhabit Engineering Consultancy (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
MEP Consultant: BON Engineering Consultants
Lighting Design: Light Design Inc. (Concept), Brandston Partnership Inc.
Green Building Consultant: Environmental Market Solutions Inc.
Traffic Consultant: Beijing Jingchuang Xingye Investment Consulting Co., Ltd
Renders: Atchain, Atchain
