Santa Monica-based Morphosis is designing in China for the first time: a new headquarters for Giant Group Pharmaceuticals. The 180,000-square-foot building’s narrow, winding form will twist around canals and a man-made lake on eight-acre site that was once farmland in the outskirts of Shanghai. Firm principal Tim Christ says that its shape resembles that of a dragon, which is the nickname that his Chinese clients have given the project.
The steel-framed building will be clad largely in reddish, weathered steel and glass. Its east wing will contain roughly 500 open-plan workstations. Executive suites, located at the head of the dragon, will cantilever roughly 90 feet above the lake. A library, auditorium, exhibition space, and cafeteria will be tucked into tucked into an earth berm and lit from above by skylights. On the building’s west side, a clubhouse with an undulating green roof will contain a pool and additional recreation facilities. A hotel and guest suites on this side of the campus will project over the water.
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