XIAMEN POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWER

The Xiamen Posts and Telecommunications Tower is a 66 story Corporate headquarters facility including a restaurant, observatory and post office.

Design Competition First Prize. Xiamen, The People’s Republic of China.

Transformation of the traditional Chinese garden, as organizing container for thought and contemplation, vertically, as a three-dimensional mapping of the knowledge and Carrier wave technology process of the inhabitant.  Investigation of lease span efficiencies and the external translation of building systems as legible vocabulary.

Photographs by James Steinkamp Photography for SOM 

Design Studio Head
Todd Halamka

Architect
SOM