Whisky Headquarters Perched On A Knifes Edge

Whisky Headquarters Perched On A Knifes Edge

With the development of China it's becoming increasingly obvious that anything Japan has they want too. The latest thing that the People's Republic has turned its gaze towards is whisky, something that's being increasingly distilled in the Red River gorge.

The New Horizon Development Company of Chengdu has been running an international competition to help chose the design for the Lang-jiu Whisky Headquarters and Richard Murphy Architects are one of the top two designs, something that has meant they have been asked to work up the proposal further.

Their scheme takes massive advantage of the dramatic topography that the area exhibits by concealing the hotel and conference centre under a roof that zigzags through the site creating a virtual ground level, in the process referencing the Chinese tradition of "land bridges", something that the country has long favoured as an alternative to the European ideas of a Cutting.

Leading all the way to the cliff edge, the project then dramatically juts out into thin air with the office building shaped like a trapezoid leaning into space, the shape further emphasised by the cladding that projects past the floors gives it a truly knife-edge look. At the other end of the building the leaning trapezoid allows the headquarters to have a collection of terraces that can provide outdoor space for the occupants.

With the top floor set, as one would expect, for executive use, the interior will be lavish with a monumental staircase running through it from top to bottom all the way to the door of the managing director's office giving him the quickest access through the building possible if he doesn't want to take the lift.

Richard Murphy Architects will now be honing the design with the aim of being chosen to put scotch design into Chinese whisky.

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