Client: Sunpowerl Development Group
Landscape: NBBJ
Location: Shanghai JingAn, China
Site area: 2300㎡
Total construction area: 12000㎡
Design period: 2004-2005
Completion: 2006

The building is located on Huashan Road, Xuhui District, immediately adjacent to the Huashan Green Park. It is also the first project launched by Taiwan’s Sunpower Development & Construction Group in Shanghai. Drawing guidance entirely from The High Autumn Sky in Huashan (“Hua Yu Gao Qiu”) by Chinese painting master Zhang Daqian, the project was intended to turn the Chinese landscape painting techniques showcased in Zhang’s masterpiece, a combination of imaginary mountain slopes and river, into the facade theme. While the verdant stretches of grass on Huashan Mountain surrounding the building is compared to the open surrounded by woods in the painting, the building itself is erected in the manner of fantastical mountain peaks, offering a dramatic twist to this rural landscape mimicry in a modern city.