{"id":178016,"date":"2023-12-11T02:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T08:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/tencents-futuristic-new-headquarters-is-twice-the-size-of-apples"},"modified":"2023-12-11T02:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T08:24:11","slug":"tencents-futuristic-new-headquarters-is-twice-the-size-of-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/tencents-futuristic-new-headquarters-is-twice-the-size-of-apples","title":{"rendered":"Tencent\u2019s futuristic new headquarters is twice the size of Apple\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZ_Itxjb9Qo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The office is no longer just a cubicle\u2014 but it\u2019s also not a children\u2019s playground.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Corporate giants often hold pride in their headquarters, its design, and its acclaim among contemporaries. Chinese tech giant Tencent is set to redefine this corporate landscape with plans for its new headquarters, Tencent Helix.<\/p>\n<p>Envisioned by renowned German architect Ole Scheeren of the B\u00fcro Ole Scheeren Group, the ambitious project was unveiled on Thursday and promises to be a headquarters of the future, accommodating over 23,000 employees across an expansive 500,000 square meters \u2013 almost double the size of Apple\u2019s California headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Digital renderings shared exclusively with <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/style\/china-tencent-helix-shenzhen-ole-scheeren\/index.html\" title=\"CNN\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"><em>CNN<\/em><\/a> showcase a helix-inspired masterpiece with four towers spiraling out from a central space named the Vortex Incubator. Speaking to <em>CNN<\/em>, Scheeren emphasized that his swirling vortex geometry, will establish an ecosystem where everything comes together, where work merges into a very collaborative interactive environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office is no longer just a cubicle\u2014 but it\u2019s also not a children\u2019s playground. Corporate giants often hold pride in their headquarters, its design, and its acclaim among contemporaries. Chinese tech giant Tencent is set to redefine this corporate landscape with plans for its new headquarters, Tencent Helix. Envisioned by renowned German architect Ole [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}