This building represents the first Whittle School & Studios project in China and will be part of a system of 30 WSS campuses in the World’s leading cities. The new school is in the centre of Qianhai Dawan Development in Shenzhen, a completely new district rising from reclaimed land. The site is on a 10,400 sqm plot, conveniently situated and bordered on the North/East by the new urban public park. he Whittle School & Studios has been designed to be a place for 2,200 students to learn and grow. The 58,000 sqm school is organised into two buildings. The main building is 32m high with a footprint of 70m by 70m and is organized on ten floors, eight above ground and two below. The 18m-high central volume is levitating 6m above grade and its mass is broken up into eight blocks. The ground and three upper floors are set back to emphasize the volume of the middle four levels. A smaller three-storey building sits just West, with a landscaped playground in front. Lode Group worked on behalf of school to manage the project during the construction period until handover.