Huamu Lot 10 – The Summit / KPF

Conceived as an integration of culture and commerce, Huamu Lot 10 – The Summit, reimagines participatory urbanism by re-activating an abandoned riverfront, fostering a new public space, and merging its three towers through cantilevered sky galleries with the adjacent museum. Strategically located adjacent to Century Park and the Huangpu River, the project transforms a previously neglected riverfront into an active civic realm. "The project seeks to flip the equation of a tower, which typically includes an iconic top, and instead uses the gallery program as a cantilevered volume at the mid-point of the tower," explains KPF Design Principal Jeffrey Kenoff, FAIA. "The result is a moment that engages the pedestrian realm while simultaneously sculpting the project's identity within the Shanghai skyline." The cantilevered sky galleries are illuminated and clad with reflective and hammered titanized soffits, reinforcing their spatial prominence within the urban fabric and contributing to the project's distinct identity within the skyline.