Architects: Atelier Alter Architects
Area: 44,264 m²
Year: 2024
Photography: Highlite Images
Lead Architects: Xiaojun Bu, Yingfan Zhang
Design Team: Zhenwei Li, Lidong Song, Lairong Zheng, Chunbiao Cao, Lanyue Sheng
Consultants: Zhejiang Jianyuan Architectural Planning and Design Institute
Engineering: Zhejiang Jiahua Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Clients: Ruian City Wuxi Construction Co.
City: Ruian
Country: China
Ruian Qiaomao Tower is a commercial and office tower designed by Atelier Alter Architects in Beijing, China. Completed in 2024, the project embodies the city’s rapid development and aspirations in the new energy vehicle industry, reflecting Ruian’s global renown for electric vehicle components and symbolizing speed and the future. The design translates the city’s dynamic energy into powerful architectural forms, integrating massive lines and reflective surfaces for a futuristic appearance.
Ruian Qiaomao Tower, designed by Atelier Alter Architects, embodies the sense of speed integral to the city’s character. Known for electric vehicle components, Ruian represents “speed” and “the future.” The city’s rapid development and aspirations in the new energy vehicle industry are mirrored in the city’s appearance and the building’s design.
The architects aimed to capture the power of the city’s forward momentum in the architectural language. Massive, powerful lines sweep from the city to the building, imbuing it with a tremendous sense of strength. Reflective surfaces add a futuristic aspect to its appearance.
The project consists of three parts: the ground city square, podium, and tower. The podium houses commercial spaces and an auditorium, while the tower is dedicated to offices. Typically, these separated urban functional modules have little direct connection. A large, ribbon-like concave form traverses these three parts, linking space from the city’s entrance square to the podium facade and the tower’s office interiors. This unifying element includes the building’s entrance square, facade variations, and an indoor observation platform that overlooks the entire city pulse—forming a cohesive urban image.
The ribbon-like concave mirrors embedded in the glass curtain wall embed the cityscape into the building’s volume in a surreal manner, making the image an essential component of the building material. The architecture’s form, imbued with a sense of speed, overlays the artificially transformed city reflection, reinforcing the urban attributes of this architectural language on both a material and abstract level.
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Address: Ruian, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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