Though Guangzhou Twin-tower is not the highest building in the world, it still has its chance of becoming the greatest high-rise building ever. We hope she can express the confidence and imagination of Guangzhou City, her greatness demonstrates the vigorous life in Guangzhou and broadens people’s mind in her own unique way, and even the height and formalism structures of the monument type of the Twin-tower are rich in aesthetic value.
The institutional framework of the traditional skyscraper is fixed; they are nothing but simple linear structure and regular duplicating or superposing. As the height record for the building is instantly replaceable, its significance wanes with more of higher buildings rising up. There fore creating space, realizing high-level complexity and expressing the relations of modern city become indispensable. New Guangzhou twin towers will not turn out to be an office machine, instead, it will become a living mixture. The commerce, service, amusement space are improved and linked to offices and hotels in the sky form a three-dimensional urban condition, incorporating metropolitan life into the tower itself.
We use one cable car to reach the top of Twin towers, make it a mobile body of the city scale and a dynamic landmark reflecting the urban vigor. The old idea of relying on form and style to build a landmark becomes a faint by contrast.
