Night render of Zhangjiagang Jinmao Mall from across the water, its banded facade lit and wrapped in screens

04 · Practice

Zhangjiagang Jinmao Mall

A new shopping mall in Zhangjiagang, China, where my part was the concept and the facade.

Practice
LWK + Partners, Hong Kong
Year
2019–2020
Project
New shopping mall, Zhangjiagang, China
Size
120 000 m² gross floor area; six levels above ground and two basements
My part
Concept and facade design, presentation

After my master’s I moved to Hong Kong for international experience and joined LWK + Partners, a practice of more than 400 people. It meant designing at a scale I hadn’t worked at before, and at a much more demanding pace. My part of each project was the concept stage: the facade design and the presentation work that carried it to the client.

The renders show the scheme as it stood: long curved bands wrapping the building, broken by media screens and by a glazed atrium on the corner facing the water, with terraces on the roof.

Dusk render of Zhangjiagang Jinmao Mall's southwest corner, with curved horizontal bands and a large media screen
Southwest corner at dusk
Night render of Zhangjiagang Jinmao Mall from the east street, with a glazed atrium and gold lettering on the facade
East street view
Aerial render of a large shopping mall with a white curved roof pavilion, terraces and screens, among high-rise apartment blocks
Aerial view

Concepts

Four directions, four views each

At the concept stage several facade directions were worked up side by side. This sheet shows four of them, each drawn from the same four viewpoints so they can be compared directly, and the elevations of the scheme below it.

Contact

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