Vantone Centre is located at the CBD financial hub at the downtown area in Tianjin. The prime location offers the best choice for international companies to have their footprint in this big city. Vantone center have the area of nearly 100,000 sqm of 34 storeys at a height of 184m. The office tower occupies 5 to 34F with the footprint of each floor ranges from 2000 to 1500sqm. The office tower stands out prominently in the vicinity with all office enjoy the spectacular view of the surrounding. This project covers the design of the office lift lobby at typical floor and 1F, public area including corridor, restrooms and pantry. The project receives LEED gold certificate due to the environmental concern. This facility includes the fresh air treatment to achieve the international standard of PM 2.5. Hence, a humanistic, environmental and high efficiency office environment can be achieved

This project covers the public lift lobby, restrooms and the public corridor. For the lift lobby, a monotone color of white marble blends with the dark charcoal floor granite. Conceal lighting trough is designed on the low level at the wall surface. Special design is done on the company plates with special treatment glass. For the public corridor, mix color and texture carpet is selected to bring out a high-end touch. For the restroom, beige color marble tile is selected to contrast with the white sanitary fitment. Special treatment is designed at the entrance vestibules to greet the guest and form a visual barrier. For the pantry, a modern and simplicity design is done with the use of the bright green plastic laminate. This give a fresh and energetic feeling to the visitors.

The local and international top 500 company’s area arranging rental contract with the developer.

The project receives LEED gold certificate due to the environmental concern. This facility includes the fresh air treatment to achieve the international standard of PM 2.5. This encourage a humanistic, environmental and high efficiency office environment in the social aspect.

The project is in charged by 4 core teams including interior, E/M, QS and project management. In the beginning, the design team will work closely with client to provide options of layout, 3D rendering, material sample to settle the design proposal. Once confirmation is granted, the project management team will work with E/M engineers and QS to have construction drawing and quotation for client approval. During construction stage, onsite construction manager will closely monitor the project progress to ensure due completion. Regular and ad-hoc meeting will arrange to ensure good communication to solve site problem.

1. The construction fee is 5 million with 2-month construction time 2. The interior fitting out part of the Vantone Tianjin is designed by DPWT Design Ltd. 3. The design process of the office is as follows: 1) Site inspection and discussion with client: DPWT carry out site inspection to have an understanding of site condition. Communication with the client to understand their needs and prepare the onwards design concept. 2) Layout plans and renderings: According to the result of site survey and the communication with the client, DPWT then prepare the drawings and renderings with internal review. The final confirmation is granted after around 3-4 presentations. 3) Construction drawings and selection of materials: the construction drawing was prepared after the approval of layout plans and renderings by client. 4) Phasing of construction: regular site inspection is conducted in weekly basis 5) Completion of construction and opening: the final outcome receives a very positive feedback from client.

The project inception to completion is in an extremely tight schedule of 2 months. During this period, numerous meeting, presentation and discussion are carried out at the same among designer, engineer, PM, client and other vendor including furniture, carpet, security. The due completion of this project is a strong evidence of a well-organized project and design team.

The final outcome of this project receives a very positive feedback from client and the other Vantone office in different locations in China adopted this new design approach. The success of this project not only enhances DPWT's status in the client side, but also underpinning a good cooperation foundation between the two parties in the future. The design effect of this project, not only acts as an advertising project to showcase DPWT design ability, but also provides the potential business opportunities for DPWT in joint projects with other companies. This design become a model for Vantone and set up an indication guideline for the other office in Asia Pacific to follow.