This exhibition complex comprises two startling multi-use buildings on Guangzhou’s Pazhou Island, the site of one of the largest exhibition centres in the world. The two buildings of the complex share a common aesthetic: a big, sprawling, assemblage of giant boxes serving as the bases for an ad hoc collection of very long narrow boxes, shaped somewhat like old fashioned wooden pencil cases, of random lengths stacked loosely on top of each other.
One building, the commercial showcase complex has vast exhibition spaces in its base with commercial offices above. The other, the commercial, hospitality and exhibition complex has a more conventional three level exhibition building plus a double height mass entertainment floor surmounted by a 500-room luxury hotel, the Langham Place, Guangzhou, which, externally, is also a collection of strewn elongated boxes.
