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  Project Title

  CITIC Tower (China Zun)

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  Winning Firm
  
  

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  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT, Commercial High-Rise

• Company/Firm
  Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
• Lead Designer
  Eugene Kohn
• Firm Name
  Citic Tower (china Zun)
• Firm City
  New York
• Firm Size
  Large Firm (49+ employees)
• Project Link
  view
• Project Status
  Built
• Client
  Citic Heye Investment

CITIC Tower’s design draws inspiration from the “zun”, a ritual vessel originating in Bronze Age China. In profile, the tower abstracts and refines the zun’s vase-like form, balancing composition and articulation with structural requirements and leasing depth needs. In plan, the building is square with rounded corners; its width transforms vertically from its 78-meter-wide base to its 54-meter-wide “waist” to its 69-meter-wide top. Broader at its base than its crown, the tower combines its iconography with infrastructure that supports the building’s integrity in China’s greatest seismic zone.