When Architecture Returns the Ground to the City | MAD Architects

MAD elevates Tencent's headquarters, returning valuable ground to the city through thoughtful architectural design. Corporate headquarters traditionally define themselves through ownership of land. At Shenzhen's Tengyun Centre, MAD Architects proposes a different relationship. Instead of spreading across its waterfront site, the 412,000-square-metre campus lifts its primary built mass approximately 8.6 metres above ground, transforming its ground plane into an uninterrupted public landscape. The architectural gesture does more than create the illusion of floating—it reshapes how building, city and coastline coexist.Releasing the Ground: The project organises three cloud-like volumes along a north-south axis, each supported by ten structural cores that elevate […]