Cork firm beats off competition to land tender for China development

A Cork-based architecture firm has beaten stiff European and international competition to land the tender to design a major new twin-tower 40-floor mixed-use development to be built in the north-eastern Chinese city of Dalian.

Wilson Architecture — which designed Cork’s Elysian building and was responsible for the city’s Half Moon Street redesign — has designed the new twin-tower high-rise project, on which building is to commence shortly.

The mixed-use development will consist of 120,000sq m of building area, with a single 40-floor tower accommodating 1,000 residents.