Competition Text

Of the 30 largest cities in the world, Beijing has the fastest growing economy.

In the last thirty years, Asia has embraced the tower as a symbol of its emerging economic power.

International business selected the tower as its preferred figure.

The tower has made the Central Business District into a structure that is identical everywhere.

At the dawn of the 21st century, global economic pressure and extraordinary advances in information technology dramatically change the nature of office work. The increasing ubiquity and mobility of information technology paradoxically stress the importance of faceto-face human interaction.

In the 21st century business is communication.

With its economic power and growth, Beijing has the obligation to build the 21st century CBD.

The Beijing CBD will boast over 300 towers, most of them offices.

How can the CBD Core distinguish itself in a forest of towers?

The CBD Core has to define a typology that promotes human interaction and communication.

The same amount of urban substance can be configured in many different ways, from a compact Monolith to a dispersed Network.