The proposal for the Gongbei Port Inspection Office Building is designed as a beacon, an iconic landmark that marks the whole area with its powerful presence in Zhuhai, China.

Inspired by a traditional Chinese lantern, the design emphasises the contrast the building will make against the grey and hard surroundings with its cheerful and lively glow. A semi-transparent outer skin that formed by perforated metal pattern creates the main building expression and also forms a nice semi-interior space caused by the play between interior and exterior spaces. Starting at an inner garden on the ground level, commercial area crawls up into the perforated metal shell, overlapping with each other creating balconies and accessible landscape on different levels of the building.