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Tencent Seafront Towers
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1 | Tencent Seafront Tower 1 | 2017 | 245.8 m / 806 ft | 50 | composite | office | |
2 | Tencent Seafront Tower 2 | 2017 | 194.8 m / 639 ft | 39 | composite | office |
Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia 2018 Award of Excellence
2018 CTBUH Awards
CTBUH Study Examines Tallest Buildings with Dampers
22 August 2018 - CTBUH Research
CTBUH Releases Journal 2018 Issue II
26 April 2018 - CTBUH News
31 May 2018
Linked-Up Thinking Drives the Design of a Tech Company’s Headquarters
The Tencent Seafront Towers were constructed in a special zone of Shenzhen, the Software Industry Base. The project represents a new vision of the workplace,...
01 March 2020
The Future of Workplace in Vertical Cities: Hanging Gardens, Roof Terraces and Vertical Plazas
Stephan C. Reinke, Stephan Reinke Architects
As the workplace evolves in our vertical cities, the need for “think spaces” and the public realm to meet, create and innovate will become integral...
31 May 2018
Linked-Up Thinking Drives the Design of a Tech Company’s Headquarters
The Tencent Seafront Towers were constructed in a special zone of Shenzhen, the Software Industry Base. The project represents a new vision of the workplace,...
18 October 2016
CTBUH Video Interview – Jonathan Ward
Jonathan Ward of NBBJ is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2016 CTBUH China Conference. Johnathan discusses the design process behind the Tencent Seafront Towers...
18 October 2016
The Impact of Tech Companies in Rethinking the High-Rise Workplace
While tech companies have traditionally located in suburbia due to lower property costs and the perceived security of intellectual property, they are now increasingly investing...
17 October 2016
CTBUH Video Interview – Chao (Ivan) Wan
Chao (Ivan) Wan of Tencent Holdings Limited is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2016 CTBUH China Conference. Ivan discusses the design process for Tencent...
16 October 2016
CTBUH Video Interview – Moira Moser
Moira Moser of M Moser Associates is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2016 CTBUH China Conference. Moira discusses the planning of modern work spaces...
26 October 2015
How New Generations, Industries and Workplace Paradigms Are Redefining the Commercial High-Rise
This presentation will provide a data-driven analysis of building performance from three eras: the early 1900s, mid-twentieth century, and today. This longitudinal analysis will illustrate...
20 September 2012
The Synergy Tower: A New Typology for a Sustainable Future
As the pressures of global urbanization and climate change continue to grow, dense high-rise development is increasingly viewed as a key tool for forging a...
01 March 2020
The Future of Workplace in Vertical Cities: Hanging Gardens, Roof Terraces and Vertical Plazas
As the workplace evolves in our vertical cities, the need for “think spaces” and the public realm to meet, create and innovate will become integral...
30 April 2018
Taking the Corporate Campus Vertical
The Tencent Seafront Towers bring a novel concept – the “vertical campus” – to Shenzhen. In housing the corporate headquarters of the fourth-largest internet company...
27 April 2018
Debating Tall: Landscrapers vs. Skyscrapers
What does the office of the future look like? The leading tech industry giants all seem to agree the main goal is “connectivity” that forges...
01 March 2018
Designing the High-Rise Building from the Inside/Out
For over 100 years, the tall building has largely advanced in technological innovation; however very little has been done in the terms of understanding the...
17 October 2016
Cities to Megacities: Perspectives
The CTBUH 2016 International Conference is being held in the three cities of the Pearl River Delta, the world’s largest “megacity,” projected to have 120...
17 October 2016
Tencent Seafront Tower – A Case Study on Façade Engineering as Functional Patterns
A methodology that façade engineers commonly use to understand and detail a façade element is to break it down into “functional patterns” – principles that...
17 October 2016
Tencent Seafront Tower: Practice on Binding Buildings
This paper compares the differences between a binding building and a link building, defining the concept of a “Binding Building.” It analyzes the architectural and...
17 October 2016
The Impact of Tech Companies in Rethinking the High-Rise Workplace
Tencent, one of the world’s largest internet companies, is creating a high-rise headquarters in Shenzhen, China that overcomes the challenges of the traditional tall building....
22 August 2018
CTBUH has released a Tall Buildings in Numbers (TBIN) interactive data study on the world's tallest buildings with dampers.
26 April 2018
In the latest CTBUH Journal, examine a case study of Tencent Seafront Towers, Shenzhen's "vertical campus", in addition to other great features
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