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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wangjing SOHO]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<em>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.</em>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[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.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[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.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Zaha Hadid]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Patrik Schumacher]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Image 1: 489-1683x1080.jpg <br />
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    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Image 2: zha_wangjingsoho_f_01.jpg<br />
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    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Image 3: zha_wangjingsoho_f_10.jpg <br />
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    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Image 4: zha_wangjingsoho_f_28.jpg<br />
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    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Design: 2009]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Completed: 2014]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Mursal Abdullah]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Image 1: Creative Commons]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Image 2: Creative Commons]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Image 3: Creative Commons]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Image 4: Creative Commons]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[Neo-Futurism]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[Parametricism]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[Total floor area: ~521,265 m² (5.61 million ft²)]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[Three towers: 118 m, 127 m, and 200 m tall]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Steel]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Glass]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Reinforced Concrete]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Beijing, China]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Commercial]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Zaha Hadid Architects. “Wangjing SOHO.” Zaha Hadid Architects. https://www.zaha-hadid.com.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Jodidio, Philip. Zaha Hadid: Complete Works 1979–Today. Taschen, 2020]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Schumacher, Patrik. The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Vol. II. Wiley, 2012]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[N/A : currently not  housed in museum collection]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:spatial><![CDATA[Latitude: 39.9892° N<br />
Longitude: 116.4746° E]]></dcterms:spatial>
    <dcterms:temporal><![CDATA[Contemporary, 21st Century China]]></dcterms:temporal>
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