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CNOOC Building

China National Offshore Oil Corporation Building
中海油总部大楼
A triangular greenish glass-faced building, flaring outward the higher it gets, rises over a street lined with freshly budding trees on which a blue and white trolleybus is stopped
View from southwest, 2014
General information
Type Corporate headquarters
Town or city Beijing
Country China
Coordinates 39°55′25″N 116°25′35″E / 39.92369°N 116.42637°E / 39.92369; 116.42637
Named for China National Offshore Oil Corporation
Opened 2006
Technical details
Structural system Concrete
Material Terra cotta, glass
Floor area 90,000 square metres (970,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect William Louie
Architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox
Structural engineer China Architecture Design & Research Group
Main contractor China State Construction Engineering
Awards and prizes Hong Kong Institute of Architects Architecture Merit Award and Sustainability in Design Award (2007),
Beijing Urban Planning Commission Design Excellence Award (2003)

The CNOOC Headquarters Building (simplified Chinese: 中海油总部大楼; traditional Chinese: 中海油總部大樓; pinyin: Zhōnghǎiyóu zǒngbù dàlóu) is located on the Second Ring Road in the Chaoyangmen neighborhood of Beijing's Dongcheng District. It is the corporate headquarters for the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, one of the country's two state-owned oil companies. It was designed by the New York architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) and opened in 2006.

According to KPF, aspects of the building's design are meant to evoke the petroleum industry. It is in the shape of a triangle with rounded corners, gently flaring outward, as to suggest the prow of an oil tanker. At its base level, the building is supported by piloti, suggesting the offshore oil derricks that are the company's primary source of product. The grounds are also landscaped to suggest the surface of the ocean.

The building is meant to be a counterpart to the large Ministry of Foreign Affairs building on the opposite corner of the intersection of the Second Ring Road and Chaoyangmen Street. Inside it has a central atrium lit by an upper clerestory. Sky gardens around the atrium are meant to facilitate impromptu, informal meetings between employees. Outside, a western courtyard, buffered from the busy street by a three-story L-shaped podium and entered through an oversize gateway, is meant to invite visitors to explore the building.


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