The Qincheng Apartment provides purpose-built talent housing for young professionals, a national first. With restaurants, fitness facilities and cultural spaces across the campus, the development operates as a neighbourhood rather than a corporate enclave.

Nanjing Jinling Place, the campus’ retail anchor operated by MixC Life, takes on a stacked form with a series of stepped green terraces and direction metro connections. Inspired by towers of stones, Benoy chose natural stone for the facades to juxtapose the wider campus’ technological character.

Across the wider masterplan, the building clusters are expressed through glass façades articulated with linear metal details. The transparency lends the architecture a sense of lightness and movement, while the metal detailing creates a unified yet layered expression.

Sponge city measures, including permeable paving, sunken green spaces and rainwater harvesting, achieve a 76% annual runoff control rate. Highefficiency HVAC, energy-saving lighting and intelligent controls reduce annual electricity consumption by 4.13 million kWh, with operational carbon 40% lower than industry norms.

Sustainable design initiatives were embedded throughout the design process – from material selection and energy modelling to environmental management – helping the project achieve LEED-CS Gold and China’s top green-building rating: the Three-Star Certification.

Benoy integrated low-reflective materials, rooftop gardens and outdoor shading to 20% of the site to ease the urban heat-island effect. High-efficiency systems and smart start-stop technologies deliver annual energy savings of 4.13 million kWh, resulting in the building energy use being as low as 43.56 kWh/m² per year – less than a third of comparable buildings. The overall project reduces operational carbon by over 40% compared with baseline values.