The TP-LINK LXD project redefines circulation as habitable ground. A one-kilometer continuous landscape lifts the ground plane and wraps it around three buildings, transforming movement into shared social and ecological space. Within a dense urban site, where open space is typically lost, the project restores it as elevated, continuous, and accessible from every level.
Two side-core office towers and a dormitory building free the perimeter to make this possible. Each office floor opens directly onto the ribbon, eliminating the isolation of stacked office plates and replacing it with a workplace organized around visibility, access, and encounter. The result is not two office towers, but a single campus-like, connected environment.
The ascent unfolds as a sequence rather than a corridor. Spaces expand and compress, alternating between active and quiet, social, and solitary. The ribbon thickens to host meeting terraces, dining areas, and recreation, including full and half basketball courts, then narrows to moments of climbing and pause, framing light, air, and long views of Shenzhen and the city’s terrain. Movement becomes part of daily life for the building’s occupants.
Bridging between volumes, the ribbon links communities while forming shaded outdoor rooms and inhabited voids. Architecture, landscape, structure, and circulation operate as one system.
High-performance façades with operable windows enable natural ventilation and reinforce a direct relationship between inside and out—environmental performance aligned with spatial experience.
Inspired by Shenzhen’s culture of rapid innovation and collective energy, the project proposes a new model for TP-LINK’s workplace – one where health, collaboration, and landscape environment are not amenities, but the organizing principles of the building itself.
