(Beijing, China) Galaxy SOHO

Beijing Architecture Walk 🚶‍♂️Galaxy SOHO Galaxy SOHO is located in the business district of central Beijing. It is a huge commercial and office complex completed in the fall of 2012, with four semicircular towers like upside-down bowls connected by four curved bridges at ground level. The pattern looks like four eggs, so it is commonly called "Eggs". The distinctive exterior walls, the large atrium and the balance of the curves are like the mitochondria-like organisms in textbooks when you were a student, mysterious life forms, or space cities in science fiction movies, and are a design that is very Zaha Hafner architecture. When you experience Zaha Hafner architecture from the inside, you will notice how surprisingly comfortable it is. The windows here are gently curved, so the view is wider and more panoramic than conventional flat windows, and you will also notice that the view from each room is different. Also, when going to the toilet, you have to walk through a long corridor on the floor, which also curves gently, and it's strange how by the time you come back you feel refreshed. If the corridor had been straight, based on architectural rationality, the experience would not have been the same. Zaha's architecture is sometimes criticized as being somewhat showy, but what I feel every time I experience it is that it is more purely in line with human sensibilities. That's why Zaha's architecture is so addictive.