Wenling, located in southeastern Zhejiang province, is a fast-developing coastal city just south of the Yangze river delta. Anchoring the site is an iconic 288-meter tall tower boasting a five-star Sheraton hotel and amenities, serviced apartments, a sweeping podium with ballroom, conferencing facilities, roof terrace, and waterfront bars and restaurants – this truly destinational development cements Wenling’s claim as a new regional hot-spot.
In the broadest sense, the project’s architectural concept takes on a three-pronged approach: combining civic responsibility, with the creation of a new urban waterfront district, ecological sensitivity, in the way it deals with its connection to its immediate natural environment, and finally resort exclusivity, as it responds to the client and hotel operator’s functional requirements.
ARCHITECT / Woods Bagot
DESIGN LEADER / Justin Szeremeta for Woods Bagot
CLIENT / Wenling Intime Hotel Development Co., Ltd.
BUILDING TYPE / Mixed-use, Office, Serviced Apartment, Retail
Wenling, located in southeastern Zhejiang province, is a fast-developing coastal city just south of the Yangze river delta. Anchoring the site is an iconic 288-meter tall tower boasting a five-star Sheraton hotel and amenities, serviced apartments, a sweeping podium with ballroom, conferencing facilities, roof terrace, and waterfront bars and restaurants – this truly destinational development cements Wenling’s claim as a new regional hot-spot.
In the broadest sense, the project’s architectural concept takes on a three-pronged approach: combining civic responsibility, with the creation of a new urban waterfront district, ecological sensitivity, in the way it deals with its connection to its immediate natural environment, and finally resort exclusivity, as it responds to the client and hotel operator’s functional requirements.
Project Information
ARCHITECT / Woods Bagot
DESIGN LEADER / Justin Szeremeta for Woods Bagot
CLIENT / Wenling Intime Hotel Development Co., Ltd.
BUILDING TYPE / Mixed-use, Office, Serviced Apartment, Retail
The project balances the prerequisite delivery of an iconic tall tower on a peninsula with sensitive waterfront place-making. The design prioritizes pedestrian and water taxi connections to and around the site, establishes a sequence of public waterfront experiences on ground level and exclusive, elevated terraces for residents and hotel guests above the ballroom.
Tower A’s slim profile is achieved by enlarging the four corner ‘super columns,’ which serves to reduce both the size of the core as well as the size of the typical perimeter columns. The result of this structural strategy is an extremely slender Tower, which at 288m in height, will become an icon for the entire region.