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 shopping center is at the 3-level podium and basement 1. The whole center comprises of F&B, gymnasium, bookshop, sports and leisure shop.

The vantone shopping centre is a hub of F&B, leisure, vogue, financial and living functions and facilities. It comprises of 3 levels podium and 1 level basement. At the entrance lobby, a diamond shape chandelier is designed to echo the design and aesthetic language of the whole building. The subdivision of the marble tile for the podium floor is also in diagonal pattern. The whole podium is linked by a central atrium which bring daylighting to the whole shopping centre. The main theme is to create an oasis in this busy city life. Therefore, tree shape pattern is designed along the atrium internal facades. Various cultural, creative and artistic space is designed in the shopping centre, this includes the art exhibition space at 3F, book shop at 2F. all these provide a new artistic and aesthetic experience in additional to the shopping activities.

The rental result is comprising with lot of the local and international top brands will move in the new shopping center.

The shopping centre is not just a commercial place to encourage spending. It can be a leisure and relaxing social area and an educational venue. Therefore, a central courtyard with greenery is designed to provide a breakout area for the people working in this building. also, some space is dedicating to art space and library to foster a cultural substance to all the visitors. Also, the basement is transformed into a hub of small restaurants/fast food shops to the worker in this office, this provide a convenient place for them to hang out here.

The project is in charged by three core teams including interior, E/M and QS. 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, designer and engineer 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 20 million with 9-month construction time 2. The interior fitting out part of the Vantone Tianjin Shopping Centre designed by DPWT Design Ltd. 3. The design process of the Vantone Tianjin Shopping Centre 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 9 months. During this period, numerous meeting, presentation and discussion are carried out at the same among designer, engineer, client and other vendor including curtain wall, security and E/M contractors. The due completion of this project is a strong evidence of a well-organized project and design team.

1. The final outcome of this project receives a very positive feedback from client and the other Vantone project in different locations in China adopted this new type of design approach 2. 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. 3. 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