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2015 · Shenzhen, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Hon Kwok City Center image

Supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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Hon Kwok City Center

Shenzhen, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China · Exact work coordinates

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Supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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Field	Hon Kwok City Center 2015 · Shenzhen, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China	Joseph Paxton
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2015	Unrecorded
Place	Shenzhen, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China	Unrecorded
Place context	Shenzhen, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Chatsworth, Chatsworth, United Kingdom
Climate	25°C · 12.8h daylight · 4 km/h wind	7°C · 14.3h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Emperor Fountain
Focus	Housing	6 works in corpus
Architects	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill	Joseph Paxton
Linked context	Bureaus No linked context yet.	Notable works Emperor Fountain The Crystal Palace Château de Ferrières Château de Pregny
Typologies	housing office	house cathedral sacred space landscape education campus building building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass timber
Carbon signals	housing and office gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.