Office for Metropolitan Architecture has provided us with the latest images of its winning entry in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Plaza design competition.
The Rotterdam-based architectural practice, led by Rem Koolhaas, seems to be enjoying the controversy the building has generated since Dezeen broke the news last month.
Comments from dezeen readers so far include one from Chris: "This is just another urban atrocity by the OMA. It's nothing more than a monstrous [sic] manifestation of their lack of ability to design good architecture."
Gabe said, "Piece of poop. Unethical and perverse."
"I have to say that I always enjoy reading what people have to say about our office, especially about Rem," said OMA press officer Hausi Abdul-Karim.
>> Click here to read dezeen's original story on the project, and more reader comments.
>> Here is a project fact sheet for OMA:
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Square
Project: Shenzhen Stock Exchange Square
Status: Competition
Client: Shenzhen Stock Exchange Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Location: Shenzhen, China
Budget: NA
Location: Shenzhen city center 132,000 sqm of land
Program: 175,000 sqm total: 86,000 sqm of leased offices; 20,000 sqm for the registration and settlement center; 15,000 sqm for the annex area; 15,000 sqm for the securities information company; 14,500 sqm for the SSE offices; 14,500 sqm for the trading room; 10,000 sqm for the technical operation area. Height 200 meters
OMA Architects Rotterdam
Social Responsibility: Rem Koolhaas
Agent: Shohei Shigematsu
Equipment: Anna Little, Christin Svensson, Jason Long, Carlos García Gonzales, Joao Bravo da Costa, Mauro Parravicini, Mariano Sagasta, Bart Schoonderbeek. Konstantin August, Klaas Kresse, Kengo Skorick, Katharina Gerlach, Mendel Robbers, Hong Yong Sook, Beatriz MInguez de Molina, Martti Kalliala, Andrea Bertassi, Daniel Ostrowski, Yuanzhen Ou,
Amo.
Todd Reitz and Brandon McGlick.
OMA Beijing
Social Responsibility: Ole Scheeren
Equipment: Dongmei Yao, Hiromasa Shirai, Anu Leinonen, Tieying Fang, Pei Feng, Xinyuan Wang
Design Consultant: Alain Fouraux (Nervecorp)
Trading floor design: (Asymptote) Hani Rashid, Alexander S. Pincus, Laura Trevino
Structure: (Arup) Chris Carroll - Director London, Rory McGowan - Director China, Andrew Grant, Chas Pope, Jonathan Kerry, Liang Xu
MEPs: (Arup) Andrew Le Pinel, Michael Bradbury, Sin King Lun, Shaw Yee Foo
Fire Services: (Arup) Ming Chun Lo, Dagang Guo,
Security: (Arup) Simon Brimble
Lighting: (Arup) Francesco Anselmo
Cost: (DLS Hong Kong) Kenneth Poone, Lysander Lam
Modeling: Vincent de Rijk, Alain Fouraux
Photography: Frans Parthesius
Performance: CG Glass
Text of Shenzhen Stock Exchange Building
Located within the administrative and cultural center of Shenzhen's central district and adjacent to the central business district, the new Shenzhen Stock Exchange Building will be a financial center of municipal significance.
Concept
For thousands of years, sturdy buildings have stood on solid plinths; an image that has changed through modern times. Typically, the plinth is the anchor of the building, holding it to the ground.
The nature of the stock market is speculative: it is based on capital, not gravity. In the case of Shenzhen's quasi-virtual stock market, the symbolism outweighs the program: it is a building that must represent the stock market, not the building that actually houses it ..... It is not a commercial space with offices, but an office with virtual organs.
All these reasons point to an architectural invention: our project is a building with a floating plinth. Driven by the speculative enthusiasm of the market, the old base rises up the tower and becomes a floating platform: like a platform that carries and launches the area it releases on the ground.
The base's rise into the air greatly increased its exposure; from its elevated position, it could "broadcast" stock market activity to the entire city.
The space vacated on the site was used as a covered town square large enough to host public festivals, creating an imposing esplanade for the building ......
Financial information flows through digital banners suspended from elevated platforms. Market performance is constantly displayed through computer-controlled feeds.
The tower is flanked by two atriums with gaps connecting the ground level directly to the trading floor. Staff enter from the west side and the public from the east.
Inside the platform, information and (economic) entertainment are combined to harmonize the performance of numerous people, highlight special events and expand their daily lives.
