Location: Chengdu, China.

Architect: 10 Design.

Haisco Plaza, a new commercial and retail community for the technology, media and telecoms industry, has opened in Chengdu, China. The plaza is located in the Singapore-Sichuan Hi-Tech Innovation Park, a 1,034-hectare platform jointly invested by Singapore and Sichuan Province. The development was created to attract innovation-centric and knowledge-intensive enterprises. The plaza’s diverse live-work programmes are organised around an east-west central green axis, with multi-level shaded circulation routes between functions. The buildings are positioned to ascend in height along the green axis, with the low-rise retail structures at the west drawing attention to the centre of the campus and attracting visitors from adjacent plots. The main headquarters tower occupies the most prominent northeast corner, and the leasable office towers rest in between. The floor plate is efficiently designed as a parallelogram with central core to secure maximum flexibility for single and multi-tenant users, including the new research and development centre for the primary client. The façade design borrows vertical textures and weaving patterns from the local Chengdu Embroidery to form a unified identity. A neutral yet vibrant colour palette was selected, encapsulating the dazzling modernity and infinite energy of the development. A high-performance curtain wall system with low-E coated glazing units features a series of vertical fins to achieve passive shading and minimise glare.