Follow
Designed by OPEN Architecture, the Sun Tower reaches a height of 50m and is located in Yantai, Eastern China.
It stands tall as a curving observation tower and functions much like a humongous sundial, marking the changes of the seasons.
The tower’s intriguing design draws inspiration from the area’s ancient history of Sun worshipping, and the watchtowers of ages galore that were utilized to warn the Chinese Emperors of possible seaborne attacks.
1/
Informed by meticulous studies of the Sun, the northern edge of the building is parallel to the noon sunlight of the equinoxes, while the entrance tunnel aligns with the sunset during the Winter Solstice.
The concave inner shell of the tower is perched towards the ocean. It absorbs the soothing sounds of the ocean, amplifying back through the entire structure, and even down to the amphitheater at the base.