Scheme to be built in existing technology park

Building work has begun on a new centre for hi-tech firms in Shanghai designed by the Danish practice behind the City of Westminster College in London.

The new centre sits on the edge of Shanghai Caohejing Hi-Tech Park, a state level economic and technological development, located east of downtown Shanghai, which is home to around 1,200 domestic and overseas hi-tech companies.

Designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, it will support high-tech firms and connect local and overseas university graduates and enterprises and act as an accelerator for new technology in China.

The project – the third collaboration between the architect and developer Caohejing – is expected to complete in 2020.

Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s Westminster college opened in 2011 but three years later the firm shut its London office.

 

Shl cao he jing technology hq corner

The scheme is expected to complete in 2020