Shanghai Baoye Center designed by LYCS Architecture has been selected for the American Architecture Prize 2017 in the General Architecture Design category.
The American Architecture Prize (AAP) is a highly respected award in the architecture, interior and landscape design community. It is dedicated to selecting the most innovative architecture, interior, landscape, and planning works in the world that advance the industry and improve people's quality of life. In 2017, the organizers invited a number of international masters in the field of architecture and art design, including Ben Van Berkel, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, as jury members to select more than 1,000 entries from 68 countries. LYCS Architecture`s design for the Shanghai Baoye Center project was successfully selected, along with other internationally renowned firms such as Aedas, Studio Gang, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu, and SWA Group.
LYCS Architecture designs the headquarters building for Baoye Group is located in Lot 02 of the South Zone of Shanghai Hong Qiao Commercial District. Located on an L-shaped base within a trapezoidal plot, the scheme's form is based on a five-story volume rising vertically from the base, with some extrusion of the form according to the boundaries, combined with hollowing out of the interior, resulting in a whole of three buildings connected by connecting corridors of different heights. The main building encompasses offices and a rooftop garden, and its ground floor landscape actively connects the surrounding spaces, creating a free flowing semi-public space that fits the unique form of the main building. The parking, staff restaurant and café, leisure spa and staff dormitory are arranged underground and bring sunlight to the ground floor interior spaces through the height difference of the sunken plaza and the excavation of the ground floor. The project is a 3-star green building, LEED Gold, and is dedicated to creating an inspiring office environment that gives users a multi-layered architectural experience and sense of space. In dialogue with the complex diversity of the city, it takes into account the order of the classical Chinese garden, the visual perception, the volume relationship and the harmonious coexistence of the building and the courtyard.
