Hangzhou Civic Center

The Hangzhou Civic Center or Citizen Center is a civic center in Jianggan District in central Hangzhou, the capital of China's Zhejiang province. It is located beside the Citizen Center Station on the Hangzhou Metro's Lines 4 and 7.
It houses the Hangzhou Library and Urban Planning Museum.

Design

The Hangzhou Civic Center consists of a central plaza and park surrounded by 6 curved high-rise office towers surrounded by 4 lower rectangular podium buildings housing various public services. The high-rise towers are connected by curving elevated walkways on the 23rd & 24th floors above ground level and by underground corridors on the B1 floor. The basic conceit of the design is the traditional Chinese scheme of establishing harmony between a square Earth and the round Heavens ). The basement area includes shops, storage, parking facilities, and air raid shelters.