Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
The spiraling form of NDA Group's Citychamp Dartong Plaza Headquarters and Creative Offices carries profound archetypal resonance, evoking the universal symbol of the spiral found across cultures as an emblem of growth, evolution, and the eternal journey inward toward center and outward toward expansion, this fundamental geometry appears in nautilus shells, galaxies, unfurling ferns, and ancient sacred sites, suggesting the building participates in timeless patterns of natural order, the inward-coiling configuration creates what might be understood as a protective embrace around the central courtyard, potentially symbolizing organizational unity and the gathering of collective creative energy toward a shared center, the predominant white chromatic expression traditionally carries associations of purity, clarity, and new beginnings across numerous cultural contexts, while also suggesting transparency and openness in contemporary corporate visual language, the extensive integration of water features throughout the composition evokes traditional symbolism of flowing abundance, purification, and the life-giving properties associated with aquatic elements, fountains specifically have long served as symbols of generative force and continuous renewal, the circular and curving geometries resist the rigid orthogonality often associated with corporate hierarchy, potentially encoding values of flexibility, continuous flow, and non-linear thinking appropriate to creative enterprise, the building's horizontal emphasis and relatively modest height suggest groundedness and accessibility rather than vertical aspiration toward dominance, the generous integration of vegetation and green space activates contemporary symbolic associations with environmental consciousness and biophilic nurturing, the perimeter circulation paths that spiral around and through the complex might be read as encoding continuous journey and discovery rather than fixed destination, the transparency achieved through extensive glazing traditionally symbolizes openness, honesty, and the permeability between interior organizational culture and exterior public realm, inviting contemplation of how architectural form can materially embody and communicate organizational identity and aspirational values.
Citychamp Dartong Plaza spearheads the millennial generation shift by actively adapting to the shifting paradigms in working habits across Mainland China and the world. In a time when China's image is rapidly transitioning from the world's "factory" to its "digital innovation hub", NDA Group envisions a project that goes beyond providing efficient working areas to create a healthy and ecologic community for the country's new workforce generation - a community that breeds innovation.