London-based firm Tonkin Liu has released images of its competition-winning Trade Centre in Zhengzhou, China. The Cradle Towers of Zhengzhou will comprise of five mixed-use towers swooping out of a ring-shaped podium. Inspired by the nearby Songshan mountainscape, the scheme aims to celebrate the city?s origins as it rockets into a high-tech future.

The Cradle Towers of Zhengzhou will contain apartments, offices, retail, leisure, and a hotel. Image Courtesy of Tonkin Liu

London-based firm Tonkin Liu has released images of its competition-winning Trade Centre in Zhengzhou, China. The Cradle Towers of Zhengzhou will comprise of five mixed-use towers swooping out of a ring-shaped podium. Inspired by the nearby Songshan mountainscape, the scheme aims to celebrate the city?s origins as it rockets into a high-tech future.
A ring-shaped podium contains a soft landscaped garden. Image Courtesy of Tonkin Liu

The Cradle Towers will accommodate offices, apartments and a hotel, emerging from a podium containing retail and leisure functions. Hollowed out to form a ring, the podium acts as a threshold between the hard, dense urban context of Zhengzhou, and a soft, sheltered landscape within.

A family of five towers creates an urban mountainscape. Image Courtesy of Tonkin Liu

A responsive facade creates a heavy base, and lantern-like tips. Image Courtes...