OPPO Façade Reaches 60% Completion: Bringing Zaha Hadid’s “Wild Curves” to Life with NorthGlass

Located in Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, OPPO’s Global Headquarters is one of the most ambitious and technically demanding architectural projects in China. Designed by the world-renowned Zaha Hadid Architects, the development comprises four interconnected towers rising up to 200 meters in height, with a total floor area of approximately 240,000 square meters. Widely recognized for its fluid and futuristic design language, the project is set to become a new landmark on the skyline of Shenzhen.

As a key curtain wall glass supplier, NorthGlass has played a crucial role in transforming this visionary concept into reality. Today, with the façade installation surpassing 60% completion, the project is steadily revealing the dramatic architectural form envisioned by its designers.

Inspired by flowing geometries and organic forms, the headquarters features a highly complex curtain wall system that pushes the boundaries of architectural glass technology. The project incorporates approximately 70,000 square meters of curtain wall glass, including nearly 40,000 square meters of curved glass and around 14,000 uniquely shaped curved panels. Among them are thousands of highly challenging free-form, convex-concave bent, reverse-curved saddle-shaped panels, as well as glass components for a spherical rooftop structure.

The complexity of the project is exceptional. Single-curved glass panels reach arc lengths of up to 5.4 meters, while double-curved panels extend to 6 meters, with the smallest bending radius measuring just 1 meter. Every piece is individually customized, creating one of the most demanding curved-glass façade projects ever undertaken.

The architectural concept becomes even more challenging through the innovative structural design. By relocating the building’s core tubes to the exterior, the design maximizes interior space and creates a dramatic ten-story central atrium opening toward Shenzhen Bay. This approach enhances openness and daylight while imposing extraordinary demands on curtain wall fabrication, installation precision, and visual quality.

To meet these challenges, NorthGlass independently developed an automatic curved tempering furnace, upgraded key production equipment, and optimized its manufacturing processes specifically for the project. Drawing on its expertise in bending, tempering, laminating, and insulating glass technologies, NorthGlass successfully produced glass panels that achieve exceptional dimensional accuracy, optical quality, and consistency across the building’s continuously changing geometry.

As construction advances, the headquarters is gradually emerging as a striking addition to Shenzhen Bay’s skyline. The flowing curves of the façade are beginning to take shape, reflecting changing light and weather conditions while expressing the dynamic architectural language that defines the project.

Upon completion, the 200-meter-high complex will stand as a fluid sculpture of glass and steel, with its four towers appearing to flow like liquid metal above the waterfront. More than a new corporate headquarters, it represents a bold exploration of architectural possibility and a significant milestone in the advancement of complex curved-glass curtain wall technology.

Through innovation, precision engineering, and manufacturing excellence, NorthGlass is helping bring one of the world’s most challenging façade designs to life—turning Zaha Hadid’s visionary architecture into a defining feature of Shenzhen’s future skyline.