ASPECT Studios

Water, biodiversity, people and culture come together in a webbed network of experience and natural beauty to create a stimulating and engaging campus environment for over 30,000 Alibaba staff. To find out more click here: aspect-studios.com/au/news/a…

Design inspiration comes from the Xixi Wetland, an icon of Hangzhou. Based on the local unique ecological environment, we created a design proposal focused on an interconnected network of layered design systems.

SPECT Studios has won a hotly contested competition for the @AlibabaGroup’s new Headquarters (Park C ) Campus Project in Hangzhou. The project will be defined by a landscape that breaks new ground, creating an ecologically rich working environment.

Through the design process, the team created a new typology that fuses the forms of the urban park, square, amphitheatre, playground, lawn, streets, carpark, and retail. This mixture of uses reflects the energy and complexity of Prahran.

Prahran Square is an inventive reclamation of public space, turning a ground-plane carpark into a public space in a dense neighbourhood that was In desperate need of it.

Our Director Kirsten Bauer was in Chicago to accept this prestigious award, as well as present on Prahran Square and “Living Architecture and Urban Ecosystems” as part of the conference program.

We are excited to see that our project Prahran Square has won an Excellence Award for Urban Habitat/District Master Plan Scale at the 2022 CTBUH Awards!

The outcome across Quay Quarter is a testament to the spirt of teamwork, drive and collaboration from all who were involved, which in turn has led to such a high-quality design outcome. We’re delighted to see the project continuing to receive recognition from around the world.

We collaborated with the 3XN led design-team to design all internal and external landscape spaces, including the incredibly special public podium rooftop garden featuring a stunning artwork with international artist Olafur Eliasson.

Congratulations to our friends and collaborators at @3XN_GXN and @BVNArchitecture and client AMP - as it was recently announced that Quay Quarter Tower has been awarded the biannual International High-Rise Award in Frankfurt, Germany!