ZHONGTAI LIGHTING COMPANY 

ZT 58 is a redesigned office building located next to a park in the french quarters in Shanghai, China. In an attempt to assimilate to the adjacent park and to create a discrete office space that stepped back from the ever growing urban context of larger and louder buildings, the building hides behind a garden screen facade made of  ivy planter box louvers.

Date: 2006-03-20

Client: Zhongtai Lighting Company

Program: Office / Showroom

Team: By Kengo Kuma and Associates with Luke Willis as Project Architect

Location: Shanghai, China

Area: 3,160 m²

Status: Completed

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Zhongtai 58 is the headquarters for a lighting distributor in Shanghai, China. The design motive was to create a building enveloped in an array of architectural lighting effects.  On the eastern façade, SUS planter boxes with ivy growing inside act as louvers for the inner atrium, while the mirror finish on its exterior surface reflects and thus withdraws the building from its urban context.  The fourth floor guest rooms float in a pool of water that continues to trickle down the glass surface of the interior atrium where light reflects and refracts in playful manners for the office space behind it.

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