Visual Perspectives

Eye of the Beholder

Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected to build the new Shanghai headquarters of the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP). CECEP is the country’s leading company initiating and funding projects with a focus on renewable energy technologies. Those include solar, hydroelectric, and wind power generation, environmental conservation initiatives such as water collection, treatment, and recycling, and innovations to reduce energy consumption and emissions throughout the construction industry. The new CECEP headquarters in Shanghai has been designed to be the “greenest” building in the city, with sustainability embedded into every aspect of its design and construction. It achieved more than ninety credits in China’s exacting Three Star Green Building Rating system—the highest score for any building in the city.

A mixed-use urban campus of three office towers and shopping, dining, and leisure facilities linked by a park, the design also echoes CECEP’s commitment to environmental education by creating vital outdoor public spaces.

Rendering by Negativ, courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects