OPPO Headquarters

Hangzhou, China

Visualization © BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

Office Buildings

Architects: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

Location: Hangzhou, China
Year: 2021
Client: OPPO
Team: Bjarke Ingels (Partner-in-Charge), Brian Yang (Partner-in-Charge), Hung Kai Liao (Project Leader), Kekoa Charlot (Project Architect), Ewa Bryzek (Design Lead), Aimee Louise Desert (Facades Lead), Adam Busko, Agnieszka Magdalena Trzcińska, Alessandro Zanini, Alda Sol Hauksdóttir, Andra Beler, Buster Christensen, Cristina Giménez, Seongil Choo, Camille Breuil, Carlos Ramos Tendrio, Cris Liu, Daniel Ferrara Bilesky, Eddie Can, Eric Li, Filip Fot, Geetika Bhutani, Gül Ertekin, Jens Majdal Kaarsholm, Julia Gotovski, Karim Muallem, Liang Zhang, Laura Kovacevic, Malka Logo, Maria Capuozzo, Martyna Sylwia Kramarz, Mats Kolmas, Max Alexander Bonecker, Mengyuan Li, Mads Primdahl Rokkjær, Naphit Puangchan, Ombretta Colangelo, Rasam Aminzadeh, Roberto Fabbri, Stefan Plugaru, Steen Kortbæk Svendsen, Su Myat Nge Nge, Shuting Zhang, Weronika Siwak, Xiaochang Qiu, Xavier Thanki, Yusheng Huang, Zhonghan Huang, Bart Ramakers, Ada Gulyamdzhis, Agnieszka Wardzinska, Xingyue Huang, Omar Saad Mowafy, Anders Holden Deleuran, Alexander Jacobson, Tore Banke
LDI: ZIAD
Traffic, MEP, VT consultant: WSP
Structure consultant: RBS
Façade consultant: RFR
Client project manager: CCGT
Lighting designer: BPI
Programming consultant: Savills
Foodservice planner: TFP
Traffic evaluation agency: UAD

Founded in 2004, OPPO has grown over a short period of time to become China’s largest smartphone company. The setting of OPPO’s new R&D Headquarters in Hangzhou’s Future Sci-Tech City represents a commitment to the brand’s spirit of endless innovation in the pursuit of perfection. Hangzhou, colloquially know as ‘Heaven on Earth’, is not just a hub for innovation, but is also home to China’s most popular natural attractions including three of the world’s 57 UNESCO Heritage sites. The city has been shaped by a rich cultural history of technology, information exchange and trade for over 5,000 years as one of the origin sites of the Silk Road and Grand Canal.

BIG began working with the leading global smart device brand at the beginning of 2019 to create an R&D Headquarters and Masterplan. The design expresses OPPO’s mission of the elevation of life through technological artistry, with an overarching vision of being a sustainable company that contributes to a better world.

Prominently located in the heart of Yuhang District, Hangzhou, OPPO R&D Headquarters rests between a natural lake, an urban center, and a 10,000 square-meter park. As an anchor point along a major access road stretching east to west from Hangzhou, the OPPO R&D Headquarters Tower will be an iconic landmark and gateway to the Future Sci-Tech City and Hangzhou itself.