Once known as the “legendary airport,” Wujiaoba is now introducing itself as “Kunming’s new city center” to the nation and Southeast Asia with its new identity. The China Overseas Tower, as Wujiaoba’s first market-entry wholly-owned and purely lease-based international Grade-A office building, sees YuQiang & Partners leveraging their extensive spatial planning and design capabilities. They have undertaken the planning and design of the ground floor lobby, the basement level, and the standard-floor spaces, integrating China Overseas’ core values of “honesty, innovation, pragmatism, and excellence” with local culture. This meld fosters a commercial symbiotic effect that infuses the area’s urban renewal and development with vitality.

The tower’s design draws inspiration from the “peacock,” with serrated curtain walls mimicking the bird’s layered feathers, expressing Yunnan’s unique local culture. YuQiang & Partners harmonizes interior and exterior design thoughts, continuing the “peacock spreading its wings” theme. Landscape plazas’ radial array lines extend to the lobby floor, with black stone lines systematically dividing the lobby’s dark floor, laying out the design theme of “stretched wings.” In creating the core tube’s iconic design, the space language is refined from traditional origami art, crafting “paper sculpture models” by hand, exploring various curved and straight-line structures to simulate the gloss levels of feathers, to display the peacock’s majestic demeanor of “holding its head high with tail feathers fanned.”

The lobby’s white ceiling, with ventilation structures and lighting fixtures forming grooved lines, naturally divides into “spreading wings,” where every “feather” has a three-dimensional faceted shape. The metal grille around the ceiling’s outer ring delicately interprets the elegance of “feather tips.” The entire lobby atmosphere is bright and grand, lifting the building towards the sky, with black stone’s unique sense of strength contrasting against it, signaling China Overseas’ upward development spirit and prominently marking a new benchmark for business offices. Beyond creating a strong “corporate living room” impression, YuQiang & Partners adhere to “designing for life’s progress,” starting from practicality, rooted in corporate operations and development, while considering the dual needs of efficient office and humanistic experience, crafting a space that meets international Grade-A office standards and sustainable development.