Location: Guangzhou, China.

Architect: Joseph di Pasquale Architects.

The Guangzhou Circle is a landmark building designed by Italian architect Joseph di Pasquale in 2013. It is located in Guangzhou, China and houses the headquarters of the Hong Da Xing Ye Group. It is the tallest circular building in the world with an empty hole in the center with a diameter of 48 meters. It is an attempt to explore a new type of landmark building designed for the Third Millennium, not based on the Western and American stereotype of the vertical skyscraper. The Guanghzou Circle is a symbolic building of Guangzhou, China, which has been identified as one of the symbolic buildings of the city.

It is based on the idea of’squaring the circle’ from the Italian Renaissance, and the two circular facades contain suspended floors to bring the interior space back to the orthogonal’square’. Joseph Di Pasquale’s vision of the East-West dialectic states that it is important to not adopt an attitude of ‘choice’ and ‘prevalence’, since the presence of ‘another cultural self’ becomes an essential condition of one’s own identity.