Raffles City Chengdu (RCC) is an epitome sustainable integrated development in the heart of Chengdu.

The project is designed by Steven Holl and located in the heart of Chengdu city with convenient public transportation and numerous green features.

Raffles City Chengdu (RCC) is situated at the intersection of the First Ring Road and Ren Min Nan Road of Chengdu City. The planning and architectural content of the project is of sliced porosity block forming large public plazas with a hybrid of different functions. Creating a metropolitan public space instead of object-icon skyscrapers, this 300,000m2 project takes its shape from its distribution of natural light. The required minimum sunlight exposures to the surrounding urban fabric prescribe precise geometric angles that slice the exoskeletal concrete-steel composite frameworks of the structure. The large public space framed in the center of the block is formed into three valleys inspired by a poem of the city’s greatest poet, Du Fu (713-770), who wrote, ‘From the northeast storm-tossed to the southwest, time has left stranded in Three Valleys.’ The three plaza levels feature water gardens based on concepts of time-the Fountain of the Chinese Calendar Year, Fountain of Twelve Months, and Fountain of Thirty Days. These three ponds function as skylights to the six-story shopping precinct below. This integrated development comprises of five 110m tailor-made high-rise towers including office spaces, hotels and service residences and a 4-storey shopping mall plus a 4-storey basement car parking. This project was completed in 2013.