Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre | MVRDV
Shenzhen / China / 2023
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The MVRDV-designed Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre transforms an old mixed-use tower into a vibrant and colourful skyscraper hosting a hotel and a wide range of facilities for the welfare of women and children: a library, an auditorium, a children’s theatre and “discovery hall”, as well as therapy rooms and offices for staff. With its colourful façade, the building is a refreshing presence in Shenzhen’s Futian district; more importantly, at 100 metres tall, the building sets an important precedent for repurposing buildings in a city that is soon to see a “great wave of adaptive reuse”.
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Architect: MVRDV
Founding Partner in charge: Jacob van Rijs
Partner: Wenchian Shi
Director MVRDV Asia: Steven Smit, Peter Chang
Design Team: Lorenzo Mattozzi, Marco Gazzola, Giuseppe Mazzaglia, Daehee Suk, Fredy Fortich, Chi Zhang, Bertrand Tan, Siyi Pan, Albert Parfonov, Andrius Ribikauskas, Enrica
Perrot, Martina Franco, Jiameng Li, Agnieszka Dabek, Paula Vargas Torres, Elisa Paneni, Peter Chang, Luca Xu, Hong Yang, Echo Zhai, Zhang Ruochen, Leo Zhang, Huang Cai, Peilu Chen, Xiaoliang Yu, Americo Iannazzone, Yihong Chen, Kefei Yan, Edvan Ardianto Interiors & Landscape Design: Lorenzo Mattozzi, Fokke Moerel, Pim Bangert, Giovanni Nardi, Daehee Suk, Jiameng Li, Bertrand Tan, Paula Vargas Torres, Luca Xu
MVRDV NEXT: Boudewijn Thomas, Yayun Liu, Changqing Ye
Project coordination: Jammy Zhu
Visualisations: Antonio Luca Coco, Angelo La Delfa, Pavlos Ventouris, Francesco Vitale, Luana La Martina, Jaroslaw Jeda, Emanuele Fortunati
Copyright: MVRDV Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries
Partners:
Co-architect / Landscape architect / MEP: SZAD
Project coordination: Shenzhen Women & Children's Building Operation and Management Co.,Ltd.
Facade Consultant: KGE (King Glass Engineering)
Structural engineer: Yuanlizhu Engineering Consultants (Shenzhen) Co.,Ltd.
Lighting Consultant: BPI (Brandston Partnership Inc.)
Cost calculation: Jinxia Property Cost Consultation Co.,Ltd.
Interior architect: Jiang & Associates
Photographs: © Xia Zhi
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The MVRDV-designed Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre transforms an old mixed-use tower into a vibrant and colourful skyscraper hosting a hotel and a wide range of facilities for the welfare of women and children: a library, an auditorium, a children’s theatre and “discovery hall”, as well as therapy rooms and offices for staff. With its colourful façade, the building is a refreshing presence in Shenzhen’s Futian district; more importantly, at 100 metres...
- Year 2023
- Work started in 2019
- Work finished in 2023
- Client Shum Yip Group Limited
- Status Completed works
- Type multi-purpose civic centres / Schools/Institutes / Multi-purpose Cultural Centres
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