Wangjing SOHO

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Name of Building

Wangjing SOHO

Town or City, Country where the building was originally established

Beijing, China

Date the building was designed and/or first built

Design: 2009
Completed: 2014

Name of Architect, Builder, or Primary Patron Responsible

Zaha Hadid
Patrik Schumacher

Culturally Specific Time Period

Contemporary, 21st Century China

Geo-Location

Latitude: 39.9892° N
Longitude: 116.4746° E

Materials

Steel
Glass
Reinforced Concrete

Size and/or Scale of Building

Total floor area: ~521,265 m² (5.61 million ft²)
Three towers: 118 m, 127 m, and 200 m tall

Architectural Type

Commercial

Formal Style

Neo-Futurism
Parametricism

Building Description

Wangjing SOHO Beijing is a three-tower office development by Zaha Hadid Architects that opened in 2014, standing 118 m, 127 m, and 200 m high and comprising a floor space of more than 500,000 m². The layout is irregular and fluid, with the piers distributed as if they were river-smoothed stones, and it is featured by continuous glass façade walls and white aluminium bands forming horizontal ribbons along their curved volumes. Ground-level entrances give access into shopping and office circulation space, vertical circulation by elevator and stair/escalators, and rooftop plazas linking the piers. Composed of reinforced concrete, steel, and glass, the building is focused on transparency and contemporariness, as light and darkness move across the day-long flowing façades. The work is an expression of metaphors of motion and nature radiating corporate splendour and innovative spirit within Beijing’s fast-expanding skyline and is a question of modern epigraph about sustainability and branding functions of iconic architecture.

Names(s) and location(s) of the museum holding the object(s)

N/A : currently not housed in museum collection

Image source

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Creative Commons or other copyright information

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Student First and Last Name

Mursal Abdullah

Bibliographic references for the item

Zaha Hadid Architects. “Wangjing SOHO.” Zaha Hadid Architects. https://www.zaha-hadid.com.
Jodidio, Philip. Zaha Hadid: Complete Works 1979–Today. Taschen, 2020
Schumacher, Patrik. The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Vol. II. Wiley, 2012

In Process Notes on the building history and notable architectural details

Wangjing SOHO exemplifies Zaha Hadid’s work of a parametric design language to a commercial commission that unifies retail, office space, and leisure within a single continuous architectural formation.
As a SOHO China commission, it is an expression of corporate branding as much as of urban landmark creation that positions itself as a Beijing new business district focal point. These towers express the futuristic exuberance of the Hadid style while having useful commercial functions.

Citation

Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, “Wangjing SOHO,” World Architecture, accessed June 28, 2026, https://www.worldarchitecture.artinterp2.org/items/show/61.

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