MAD has unveiled the design for the "Cloud" building at the Tencent Shenzhen Headquarters 04 plot, which is currently under construction.

The Tencent Shenzhen Headquarters campus is located in the eastern part of Qianhai Dachanwan Island in Bao'an District, Shenzhen. The campus consists of five plots, covering an area of approximately 80.90 hectares with a total construction area of around 2 million square meters. Tencent will build a low-carbon, sustainable, and user-friendly technology park that meets the Green Building Three-Star and Barrier-Free Three-Star standards.

The Tencent Shenzhen Headquarters project, located in the East District of Plot 04, covers a total land area of approximately 72,000 square meters, with a total construction area of about 412,000 square meters. The design includes two tower buildings, three interconnected cloud buildings, and a standalone water droplet-shaped building. The building heights gradually decrease from land to the sea, forming a dynamic city skyline. Once completed, the East District will provide Tencent employees with a flowing, interconnected, garden-style office environment.

The three cloud buildings located at the center of the campus serve not only as conference, exhibition, and office spaces but also as containers for sharing knowledge and fostering creativity.

The design elevates the ground floor of the cloud buildings, making them float above the ground, presenting a flowing form. This creates an open urban gray space that not only provides a rich and diverse range of public activities facing the sea throughout the day but also serves as a venue for outdoor exhibitions.

The gray spaces are interconnected, forming a visual corridor from the interior of the campus to the bay. This design also helps optimize shading and ventilation effects for the site.

The bottom of the Cloud Towers is made of transparent ultra-high glass without ribs, visually eliminating the boundary between indoor and outdoor spaces.

The Cloud Towers are connected to each other through steel truss skybridges, which also serve as shared spaces for enjoying the sea view and fostering communication.

The southern Cloud Tower is designed to accommodate various functions such as launches, exhibitions, conferences, and communication. The "Cloud Living Room" is elevated into the air by four core tubes, with a two-story-high, ring-shaped, ribless glass facade that opens up the sea view to the maximum extent. When people step into this space, they are surrounded by the timeless natural backdrop of the bay and the vibrant urban life of Shenzhen, sparking limitless imagination and creativity.

The central and northern Cloud Towers primarily serve as office spaces, each featuring an open landscape atrium. The central Cloud Tower's atrium connects to a sunken garden and is fully open, functioning as a public space while creating a new circular facade. The northern Cloud Tower's atrium, on the other hand, is covered by a semi-open, shell-shaped ETFE skylight. These two distinct atrium designs not only enrich the space but also enhance the building's shading, ventilation, and energy-saving performance, providing employees with a more comfortable working environment.

Beneath the three Cloud Towers, the elevated ground of the park forms garden greenery and plazas, not only separating pedestrian activity spaces from roadways, allowing for orderly traffic flow within the park, but also connecting the gray space, the western office buildings, and the Chawan Central Station TOD cluster. This creates a multi-point interconnected small urban complex, providing people with a multi-layered urban living space.

The "Cloud" Towers of Tencent's Shenzhen Headquarters, located on Plot 04, are under orderly construction and are scheduled for completion and use in 2025.

Tencent Shenzhen Headquarters Project, Plot 04 East District
Shenzhen, China
2020 - 2025

Type: Office Park
Site Area: Approximately 72,000 square meters
Total Building Area: Approximately 412,000 square meters

Lead Partners: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano
Lead Associate Partner: Li Jian
Competition Team: Antoine Muller, Wang Shuobin, Ma Yiran, Yin Jianfeng, Claudia Hertrich, Jose Maria Urbiola, Reinier Simons, Fu Xiaoyi, Zhu Yuhao, Alan Rodríguez Carrillo, Zhou Haimeng, Li Hui
Design Team: Xu Chen, Liu Hailun, Fu Xiaoyi, Jose Maria Urbiola, Antoine Muller, Liu Zifan, Rozita Kashirtseva, Alan Rodríguez Carrillo, Yoshio Fukumori, Yin Jianfeng, Chen Hongbin, Yang Wenzhi, Zeng Hantao, Song Minzhe, Sun Yingna, Li Jiaqi, Tan Miao, Yu Lin, Zhao Guijia, Wu Qiaoling, Hou Jinghui, Sun Feifei, Wang Ruipeng, Feng Xuhui, Li Lingfeng, Zhang Kai, Zhou Qinyuan, Cheng Xiangju, Du Jie, Na Kyung Eun, Gan Mengjia, Xiao Yuhan, Cao Xi, Zhuang Fan, Chen Hao, Claudia Hertrich, Reinier Simons, He Shunpeng

Owner: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Class A Design Institute: Shenzhen Institute of Building Design
General Contractor: China State Construction Engineering Corporation Fourth Bureau Sixth Construction Co., Ltd.
Project Management: Caties Construction Engineering Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Structural Consultant: Maijin Architectural Engineering Design (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Facade Consultant: Warner Engineering Consulting (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
Interior Consultant: MAD, Woods Bagot Architecture Consulting (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
Lighting Consultant: Lighting Planners Associates Inc. & Lighting Planners Associates (S) Pte. Ltd., China Urban Planning and Design Institute
Landscape Consultant: SWA Group
Signage Consultant: Shanghai Baiyu Creative Design Co., Ltd.
Traffic Consultant: LTDI International Engineering Consulting (China) Co., Ltd.
Acoustic Consultant: Hongqing Engineering Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Commercial Consultant: Shenzhen Runchuang Commercial Operation Management Co., Ltd.
MEP Consultant: Kejin