Located in Beijing?s busy Chaoyang District, Vanke Times Center is a new creative urban complex that blends retail shops and offices with grand art installations, a multi-functional exhibition space, and a bamboo meditation garden. Vanke, one of the country?s largest residential property developers, commissioned Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects for its first complete renovation project ? the revitalization of a former shopping mall into a vibrant hub for the city. Now complete, Vanke Times Center is home to a host of retail shops on the basement and ground floors, while upper floors will house offices, green spaces and events.

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Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

Location: Chaoyang, Beijing, China

Associate Architect: Beijing Institute of Residential Building Design and Research Co. Ltd., Beijing H Concept Architecture Design Company
Landscape Architect: Z+T Studio, Shanghai

Area: 47000.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Yuzhu Zheng, UAP, Zhenyu Liu

Art Facilitation: UAP

Façade Consultant: Inhabit

Lighting Design: HAN Design Associates

Signage/Wayfinding: 2x4

Mep Consultant: BON Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd

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Text description provided by the architects. Located in Beijing?s busy Chaoyang District, Vanke Times Center is a new creative urban complex that blends retail shops and offices with gran...