Golden A' Design Award Winner 2022
This architectural photograph presents a large contemporary office complex consisting of multiple interconnected glass buildings of varying heights photographed from street level at what appears to be late afternoon or early evening. The scene is organized with a tall slender tower rising at the left side of the composition, approximately fifteen to eighteen stories in height, its facade a grid of silver-gray glass panels that catch and reflect the overcast sky above. Moving rightward, the composition presents a series of connected mid-rise volumes stepping down in height, the tallest of these perhaps ten to twelve stories, creating a cascading silhouette against dramatically clouded skies rendered in cool pewter, slate, and dove gray tones suggesting an atmosphere heavy with moisture yet luminous with diffused light. The glass facades display a consistent grid pattern of rectangular windows, each panel reflecting the gray sky while numerous windows glow with warm amber and golden light from interior illumination, creating a constellation of warm tones scattered across the cool silver surfaces. At street level, the buildings rest upon a base of glazed retail spaces with mature deciduous trees in soft green foliage planted along the sidewalk, their organic rounded canopies providing gentle contrast to the geometric precision above. The foreground presents a wide urban intersection with smooth gray asphalt, white lane markings, and traffic signals displaying green and red lights mounted on dark poles. The overall atmosphere feels contemplative and transitional, as if capturing the moment when day begins yielding to evening, the buildings appearing as crystalline vessels of warmth and activity against a moody atmospheric backdrop that lends drama and visual weight to the composition.
The project adopts the conceptual planning system with the theme of "City Above The Clouds". The architects integrated the buildings with the natural environment, hence creating the ideal town for the future. Inspired by keywords such as ideal city and future community, the architects created a futuristic architectural firm that focuses on openness, cooperation, and sharing. From the combination of offices and commercials to the sharing of production resources, what the architects need is to create a new way of working and living.