Located in Guangzhou’s Pearl River New City Development, Fortune Center is sited across the street from a large central park above a subterranean shopping mall which serves as the center piece of the city’s premiere central business district. The tower has a bowed form to provide a distinction between it and other office towers with a more rigid form and meets the ground with a public plaza rather than being perched upon a podium as is typical with tall buildings in China.

The tower footprint is rotated 30 degrees relative to the street network to minimize reflective glare on the tower’s southern exposure while maximizing views and creating a mirrored relationship to the Pearl River Tower, located across the park to the west and standing in at the same height. Fortune Center features a number of green design concepts including an on-site chiller plant creating ice in the evening hours and using the chilled water in the climate control system, reducing overall energy usage.

The Fortune Center was rises from a 4 story basement stretching across the site into a composite structure framed with a reinforced concreted core and a perimeter of large hallow steel columns. The corners feature large box columns framing the edges of a truss network which runs vertically along both of tower’s narrower ends. The column free office floorplates are then framed in steel as well and attach the outer perimeter of columns to the tower’s core. The entire exterior is then clad with a glass curtain wall façade.

The Fortune Center’s location alongside the center of the Pear River New City Development will ensure the tower remains a highly visible fixture on Guangzhou’s rapidly changing skyline.