This multi-use project is located in one of the major commercial streets in Beijing; Xidan. The building accommodates 120,000m2 shopping, dining, entertainment, office and parking.

The design aims to break with typical shopping malls, which are often closed boxed buildings. As such, the proposal can be understood as a giant glass box, partly draped by a curtain. There where the box is unveiled, specific program like sky-lobbies, panorama-offices and LED elevations become visible. The idea of a curtain draping a glass box is enforced by smooth shapes and soft corners.

To ‘air-up’ the huge building mass, several public voids are proposed: a ground floor plaza, a stadium-like atrium and double high sky lobbies on all corners. Circulation is organized in three independent roundabouts and is therefore never dead-ending. The roundabouts intersect at the public voids and at the newly to be built underground subway station.