Architecture Asia Special Issue - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2020

HONORABLE
MENTION
Green Hill
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Integrated Buildings
Architect:
Zhang Ming / Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., LTD.
Location:
Shanghai, China
The Green Hill is a complex encompassing public transportation, urban infrastructure, an
office, exhibition hall, coffee shop, and an urban park. The former mechanical warehouse of
the Shanghai Tobacco Co. Ltd was slated to be dismantled but is now covered with green
plants and connects the waterfront. The building has been preserved by removing the walls
of the two central spans on the ground floor and letting the planned road pass underneath.
The project breaks the barrier between the waterfront and its hinterland by creating a slope
extending from the architecture to the road to the north, forming a meandering path from the
city to the waterfront.
JURY CITATION: Challenging the Restrictions on Land Use and Architectural Regulations is not
easy. However, if you create it well creatively, the benefits will go to citizens. This project seems
to be a good example of maximizing the way rivers and be returned to citizens, with its idea of
converting part of the existing building into an urban complex of multiple functions and provides
citizens with social space and greens. In particular, instead of providing shopping malls,
it overcame difficulties and design permanent righteousness for citizens – an urban garden
with accessibility to all.
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