project description
the 115,000 m2 international culture and arts center, located in the heart of changsha city, hunan province of china, was completed with its 53,262 m2 glassfiber reinforced concrete (grc) façade panels at the end of aug.2017. aalborg white® was the exclusively specified white cement product for this civic architecture, designed by zaha hadid architects. to realize zaha hadid ‘s consistent exaggerated abstract architecture design style, more than 2,200 precast grc panels in irregular shapes were applied to three extreme sinuous buildings. nanjing beilida new material system engineering, as the main grc producer in the project, spent a total of 3 years on this masterpiece project, in which 2 years were spent only on design optimization as well as its innovative patented grc assembling system, which is especially suitable for non- linear architectures.
