CNOOC Building

China National Offshore Oil Corporation Building
中海油总部大楼
A triangular greenish glass-faced building, flaring outward the higher it gets, rises over a street lined with freshly budding trees on which a blue and white trolleybus is stopped
View from southwest, 2014
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General information
TypeCorporate headquarters
Town or cityBeijing
CountryChina
Coordinates39°55′25″N 116°25′35″E / 39.92369°N 116.42637°E / 39.92369; 116.42637
Named forChina National Offshore Oil Corporation
Opened2006
Technical details
Structural systemConcrete[1]
MaterialTerra cotta, glass
Floor area90,000 square metres (970,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)William Louie[1]
Architecture firmKohn Pedersen Fox[2]
Structural engineerChina Architecture Design & Research Group[1]
Main contractorChina State Construction Engineering
Awards and prizesHong Kong Institute of Architects Architecture Merit Award and Sustainability in Design Award (2007),
Beijing Urban Planning Commission Design Excellence Award (2003)

The CNOOC Headquarters Building (simplified Chinese: 中海油总部大楼; traditional Chinese: 中海油總部大樓; pinyin: Zhōnghǎiyóu zǒngbù dàlóu) is located on the Second Ring Road in the Chaoyangmen neighborhood of Beijing's Dongcheng District. It is the corporate headquarters for the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, one of the country's two state-owned oil companies. It was designed by the New York architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) and opened in 2006.

Design

According to KPF, aspects of the building's design are meant to evoke the petroleum industry. It is in the shape of a triangle with rounded corners, gently flaring outward, as to suggest the prow of an oil tanker. At its base level, the building is supported by piloti, suggesting the offshore oil derricks that are the company's primary source of product. The grounds are also landscaped to suggest the surface of the ocean.[2]

The building is meant to be a counterpart to the large Ministry of Foreign Affairs building on the opposite corner of the intersection of the Second Ring Road and Chaoyangmen Street. Inside it has a central atrium lit by an upper clerestory.[2] Sky gardens around the atrium are meant to facilitate impromptu, informal meetings between employees. Outside, a western courtyard, buffered from the busy street by a three-story L-shaped podium and entered through an oversize gateway, is meant to invite visitors to explore the building.[3]

Local reaction to the building has seen it differently. Many residents thought that, instead of resembling a ship or an oil derrick, the building looked like a toilet bowl,[4] particularly a model without a tank then being marketed in China by Kohler. A local advertiser later erected a billboard promoting that toilet atop a building across the Ring Road.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "CNOOC Headquarters specs". Architectural Record. 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "CNOOC Headquarters". Kohn Pedersen Fox. 2015. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  3. ^ "CNOOC Headquarters specs". Architectural Record. 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  4. ^ Chai, May-Lee; Chai, Winberg (2007). China A to Z: Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and Culture. Penguin Books. p. 5. ISBN 9780452288874.
  5. ^ Lubow, Arthur (May 21, 2006). "The China Syndrome". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved June 7, 2015.

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