UK architect Foster + Partners has won a design competition for the headquarters of conglomerate Goldsun Group in Taipei, Taiwan.
Replacing Goldsun Group’s existing factory, the mixed-use development will contain office, residential and retail space arranged around a central courtyard. This will connect to a new park to the northeast and to a green area across the street to the southwest.
The development includes a north and a south tower, the top floors of which will contain meeting spaces, auditoriums and entertainment areas.
The headquarters’ building blocks will be supported by six cores, dubbed "floating volumes" by Foster + Partners, as they are suspended between each of the solid cores using steel trusses, creating flexible, open plan floors.
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The design will also include "skygardens" throughout the project, as well as rooftop photovoltaic panels.
The development is part of the Nangang urban regeneration project.
Grant Brooker, Foster + Partners’ head of studio, said: "It has been a wonderful challenge working with our client to transform this existing industrial site into a unique contemporary urban complex – combining workplace, retail and living spaces around a series of tree-filled courtyards.
"We hope that it will be a vibrant social focus that will bring life to the area and form the centrepiece of its regeneration." Â
Images courtesy of Foster + Partners