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Beijing tower for Siemens
Work has begun on a new Chinese HQ for electronics giant Siemens. The Siemans Centre Beijing is a 30-storey, 52,260m² steel tower designed to house 3,500 staff, providing space to bring together existing staff from a number of subsidiaries in the capital as well as accommodating growth. The €100M (£69M) building will be one of Siemens’s top 10 global investments. It will comprise a 123m tall tower linked to two five-storey base buildings with courtyards.
Project manager is SIBC, originally Siemens Industrial Building Consultants, a joint venture between the electronics firm and Turner & Townsend. T&T, which also managed the Siemens Centre in Singapore, has since taken full control of the venture. Architect is Taiwan’s CY Lee, which was also responsible for Taipei 101, the world’s tallest tower. Structural engineer is Beijing Paramount Design Institute.
Demolition of Siemens’ existing offices on the site, in Beijing’s Wangjing District, has just been finished and the building is scheduled for completion in 2007.
