Álvaro Siza completes floating office for a chemical company in China — dezeen.com

News: Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed work on a large curved office building for the Shihlien Chemical Industrial Jiangsu Co in an industrial park in China's Jiangsu province (+ slideshow). The Pritkzer Prize-winning architect was appointed to design a new office building for the company's soda ash and ammonium chloride production plant in Huai'An City in 2009. Called The Building on the Water, the structure sits on an island in the middle of a 100,000-square-metre artificial lake at New Salt Industrial Park and is formed in the shape of an elongated 300-metre curve.

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