方案细节
      方案标题：广州国际金融中心
      地址：中国广州
      建筑师：Wilkinson Eyre Architects
      客户：广州越秀城市建造
      结构工程：Arup
      配套服务工程：Arup
      施工方：中国建筑工程总公司
      合同价值：9亿4千零90万美元
      完工日期：2011年6月
      毛室内面积：38万平方米
      照片：乔纳森·莱荣霍夫德

      总部设在伦敦的Wilkinson EyreArchitects设计的中国广州国际金融中心赢得了2012年“莱伯金”构筑大奖的最佳国际建筑奖.在英国皇家建筑师学会莱伯金大奖的第六年，这一最佳奖项被欧盟区以外的国家所获得。2012年英国皇家建筑师学会“莱伯金”大奖得主：Wilkinson Eyre Architects设计的中国广州国际金融中心。

      入围2012年莱伯金大奖候选名单的三个中，有一个事SCDA建筑事务所在马来西亚吉隆坡设计的。还有TR Hamzah and Yeang 和 CPG在新加坡设计的Solaris，以及Foster + Partners位于纽约Bowery的Sperone Westwater。广州金融中心是由英国建筑师在全球范围内设计的最高建筑了。Wilkinson Eyre设计的103层高的狭长三角，包含购物区和连接地铁的系统以及三层停车位。同时大楼也连接了两个副楼的住宿区。

      主塔一共有66层楼作为办公室，38层是围绕着有趣的逐渐变窄中庭分布的四季酒店使用。 这是一座通过玻璃外墙和每间办公室和酒店房间内部空间用户向全世界展示其对角线网格结构的建筑，它使用了水晶般光滑的外部皮肤，斜置的水泥浇筑钢管。

      美丽的对角线栅格结构有他的刚性作保障，给整个结构增加强度。每个菱形都有54米或12层楼高，减少了多达20%的钢材使用量。原先计划有对应的塔楼各自在大型步行街两侧，引向同为双层皮肤的去年莱伯金大奖入围者扎哈哈迪德的歌剧院。这使客户需求更多地面空间的愿望更被理解（当然，在核心区域与皮肤之间慷慨的地面面积是这座楼房的核心卖点）。相反，双层皮肤提供日晒保护需要用到玻璃，暗灰色玻璃又是成品高塔的一大独特优点。


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      Project Details:
      Project Title: Guangzhou International Finance Center
      Location: Guangzhou, China
      Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
      Client: Guangzhou Yuexiu City Construction
      Structural Engineer: Arup
      Services Engineer: Arup
      Contractor: China State Construction Corporation
      Contract Value: $940.9 million
      Date of completion: June 2011
      Gross internal area: 380,000 sq m

      Guangzhou International Finance Center in China by London-based Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won the RIBA 2012 Lubetkin Prize for the best new international building. Now in its sixth year, the RIBA Lubetkin Prize is awarded to the architects of the best new building outside the European Union.

      Winner of the 2012 RIBA Lubetkin Prize: Guangzhou International Finance Center in China by Wilkinson Eyre Architects The three buildings also shortlisted for the 2012 RIBA Lubetkin Prize were One KL, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia by SCDA Architects; Solaris, Singapore by TR Hamzah and Yeang and CPG; and Sperone Westwater, Bowery, New York by Foster + Partners.

      The Guangzhou International Finance Center is the tallest building designed by a British architect, anywhere in the world. Wilkinson Eyre won the competition with a slender triangular mixed use tower rising to 103 stories out of a podium containing shopping and a connection to the subway system and three levels of parking, as well as two linked smaller towers of accommodation.

      The main tower is 66 floors of offices and 38 floors of a Four Seasons hotel arranged around a dramatic tapering atrium. For all the smoothness of its crystalline skin, this is a building that expresses its diagonal grid structure to the world through its glazed facades and internally to the user of every office and hotel room through the presence of raked concrete-filled steel tubes that form the structure.

      The beauty of the diagonal grid is its inherent stiffness, which in turn gives it its strength. Each diamond is 54 meters or twelve stories high, reducing the amount of steel required for the construction by a remarkable 20%.

      Originally planned as one of a matching pair of towers either side of a grand pedestrian boulevard leading to last year’s Lubetkin shortlisted Opera House by Zaha Hadid, it was also designed with a double skin. That fell victim to the client’s understandable desire for more floor space (and certainly the generosity of the floorplate between core and skin is one of the building’s major selling points). Instead the sun protection that a double skin would have afforded has had to be built into the glass – hence the dark grey appearance, again a distinctive merit of the finished tower.