Project Name: JOMOO Headquarters

Location: Xiamen City, China

Design Team: OMA

Total Floor Area: 25,000 m²

Completion: 2025

Photography: Xia Zhi, Chen Hao

Feature: The JOMOO Headquarters stands as a milestone achievement in corporate architecture, where OMA has created an architectural masterpiece that seamlessly bridges urban density with natural landscape on the edge of Xiamen's central business district. This project, serving as the first office campus for China's largest sanitaryware manufacturer JOMOO Group, exemplifies the architects' profound understanding and innovative reinterpretation of contemporary Chinese tower typology.

The design philosophy centers on "duality" as the core guiding principle, manifesting through carefully orchestrated architectural form that achieves perfect expression. The continuous sculptural building volume integrates traditional base and tower concepts into a unified whole, creating a unique architectural language that responds to both urban high-rise density and embraces forested hills. The architects skillfully transformed contrasting environmental conditions into design advantages, creating revolutionary architectural expression that transcends conventional office typology.

The space's central design element is the fluid architectural form that serves as a spatial anchor within the complex urban context, while establishing powerful architectural drama within the 25,000-square-meter scale. The facade features white ceramic stripes that cast rhythmic visual effects, not only transforming the monotonous nature of traditional office buildings but also making the architecture stand out in the urban skyline, creating a captivating visual experience.

Most striking is the building's integration of public and corporate functions, whose unified programmatic framework provides diverse possibilities for spatial use. Traditional craft and high-tech production elements overlap and interweave, creating a unique atmosphere that embodies both JOMOO's brand mission and reflects Xiamen's cultural characteristics. These elements interact with carefully designed spatial sequences, generating multi-layered spatial experiences that elevate the corporate office experience far beyond conventional office buildings.

The architects demonstrate exceptional attention to environmental response details, through the continuous flowing architectural form that allows employees and visitors to immediately perceive significant changes in spatial atmosphere when entering this tranquil office environment from the city's busy streets. This design approach reflects the architects' profound understanding of user experience, creating what the architects describe as "a corporate space that merges tradition with modernity, quietly amplifying the innovative power of the JOMOO brand."

Design Team - OMA stands as a distinguished international architectural practice founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975, based in Rotterdam, under the creative direction of the founder, the firm has developed a reputation for pioneering multidisciplinary practice that transcends conventional architectural boundaries. The practice operates on the foundation of "architectural thinking," applying rigorous spatial logic within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism.

Currently led by seven partners—Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duijn, Jason Long, and Managing Partner-Architect David Gianotten—OMA maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, and Australia. Under the leadership of founding partners, the practice has cultivated a distinctive design methodology that seamlessly integrates conceptual rigor with spatial innovation. Their portfolio encompasses landmark projects such as CCTV Headquarters in Beijing (2012), Seattle Central Library (2004), Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux (2024), and internationally acclaimed architectural works. The firm's experimental approach to architectural design has been exemplified through numerous award-winning projects that have received prestigious international architectural awards.

The firm's design philosophy emphasizes that cross-disciplinary collaboration is as important as architectural precision, not rushing to standardized architectural solutions but believing that architecture should be a result of thorough understanding of spatial conditions, cultural contexts, and programmatic requirements. Through in-depth dialogue with clients, they formulate the core elements of the project then offer their expertise to transform creative concepts into architectural reality. OMA believes that exceptional design comes from collaboration with specialized consultants and artisans, they love to challenge themselves and push the design boundary further, with innovation being the key to maintaining their practice vitality.

Through this thoughtful synthesis of contemporary architectural language, understanding of traditional spatial logic, and avant-garde design approaches, OMA has established itself as a significant contributor to international contemporary architectural discourse, creating architectural works that are both rooted in local culture and embrace global design vision. Their work has been recognized with numerous international awards, demonstrating their ability to transform bold conceptual ideas into tangible architectural achievements.