深圳湾的发展将持续带动整座城市的发展，这意味着城市天际线将产生巨大的变化，也意味着当代特大都市将迎来全新的面貌。而在持续发展着的深圳湾中，中国招商银行大厦无疑将成为最闪耀的一座。

The development along the bay of Shenzhen will represent an important step for the city: not only the skyline will be profoundly changed, but the concept of what a contemporary megalopolis is, will be challenged. The tower of China Merchants Bank will be a relevant part of the composition of Shenzhen’s bay coastline.

▼夜景效果图，night view rendering

招商银行大厦设计的重中之重，是营造更加怡人的公共空间 。在过去的城市发展进程里，高层建筑和摩天大楼更加注重以自我为中心的形象树立。此次中国招商银行大厦将以街区广场为中心，统一周围建筑语言，创造整体性街区环境。

The key point of the project is the creation of an astonishing public space: in the same way the glorious buildings of the past used to shape the city to allow a theatrical display of themselves, the future quarter of China Merchants Bank will be generated around a square that literally carves the building blocks and sets unity within all the elements of the plot.

▼以公共空间为中心， generated around a square

在这一理念的带动下，该高层建筑积极探索了私人空间与公共空间，以及室内外空间之间的不同可能性。从城市尺度上来看，该大厦将作为独立的建筑引领城市视觉中心，统领着场地内的环境空间。

Following this aim, the high-rise building takes the opportunity to reinvent this typology and explore different possibilities to create a dialogue between indoor and outdoor spaces, private and public. At the urban scale, a tower is normally a building that becomes the center of attention, a standalone object that polarizes space around its own footprint.

▼城市环境里的视觉焦点，the building becomes the center of attention

▼轴侧分析图，axon

在大多情况下，大厦底层承担了该栋建筑的城市特性。在该项目中，建筑塔楼和建筑底层空间合并成统一的设计语言，而公共空间广场则转换为项目的中心元素，回应了以城市空间为主体的设计理念。

In most cases, it is the tower’s plinth that generates the city and creates urbanity. The vertical element (tower) and the horizontal (plinth) merge into single volumes with a unifying character and language, and the central element of the composition becomes a public square. In order to build a city we need spaces, not only objects.

▼东/北立面图，east/north elevation

▼南/西立面，south/west elevation

Size: 140,000 m2

Status: Design Competition

Project Design: 2017 – 2018

Address: Shenzhen Bay

Client: China Merchants Bank

Programme: China Merchants Bank Headquarters, rental offices, art auction house, Retail, 5 stars hotel, congress facility for 1300 persons, meeting center, cultural facilities.