The Lippo Centre is a skyscraper located in Hong Kong consisting of two towers designed by Paul Rudolph. The towers are erected on a four-story podium and are composed of reinforced concrete, steel, and reflective glass. Notable features include triangular glass panels on the exterior that create a "koala effect" with the towers appearing to cling to the main shaft, and interlocking four-pronged sections between the towers. The design concepts from the Lippo Centre influenced the design of the student group's own skyscraper project, focusing on the dual tower composition connected by a central podium base.

1. Lippo Centre
The Lippo centre was constructed on the reclaimed waterfront land, Hong
Kong, admiralty district. The building however, is not easy to get to by
foot. Although, it was built in the heartbeat of, Hong Kong, Central Dis-
trict. It is located at the heart of the city’s main base of the building. The
two towers designed by Paul Rudolph were erected on a four-story podium
section. Lippo centre was constructed using conventional high-rise materi-
als such as reinforced concrete, steel, and glass. However glass tri-
angles on the exterior add to the climbing koala effect of the towers. The
light blue clad reflective glass picked out for the lippo centre allows for
the building to be seen even amongst the horizon of the other skyscrapers
in Hong Kong. The koala effect of the towers is due to the interlocking
four pronged sections of the building that appear to cling to the sides of
the main shaft of the two towers. These “koala” projections are the most
distinctive part of Paul Rudolph’s design for the Lippo Centre. Support is
offered to the two towers by the support columns that anchor the towers
and connect it with the base of the building as a whole. The Lippo Centre is
a very well constructed skyscraper, that carries a lot of strong design
concepts and ideas in which spoke to some similar qualities that we a group
want to project throughout our design, For the design of our skyscraper
we chose to closely observe the Lippo Centre. This is due to its dual tower
composition but acts as one building. Moreover, it has a rhythm created by
the koala effect of the building. We were also observant of the interlock-
ing aesthetic of the main four projections of the towers. The building is
connected by a main four-story podium base. This concept reflects how in
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our own design that we want to have a main base that anchors concern
would be to have a main base that is lower that the rest of the skyscraper
so that it would correlate more directly with the streets of Stockholm.
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