The Sun Hits the Sun Tower
John Hill | 29. October 2025
Photo: Screenshot from “Sun Tower, OPEN Architecture” at Vimeo
A short film from OPEN Architecture captures the sun moving across the firm's Sun Tower, the cultural facility completed last year on an oceanfront site in the Yantai Yeda Development Zone, in China's Shandong Province.
More than an angular cone-shaped building sculpted, in the architect's words, “by the movement of the sun,” the Sun Tower is a place for people. The program includes an outdoor theater, digital exhibition spaces, library, café, bar, and a unique “Phenomena Space” atop the summit. The camera takes viewers around, into, and atop the building, revealing how it is used as well as how the moving sun aligns with the geometries of the tower. The 3-minute video also reveals what happens at the Sun Tower when the sun goes down.
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