Zoomlion Headquarters Exhibition Center by amphibianArc. Californian architects amphibianArc have designed a shape-shifting "transformer building" for a Chinese machinery company, with a facade that flaps like the wings of a huge insect (+ movie). The exhibition centre, for industrial vehicle manufacturer Zoomlion, is designed to mimic the movements of eagles, butterflies and frogs.
Hinged steel and glass panels resembling dragonfly wings at both ends of the building are mounted on hydraulic arms, allowing them to open and close like Transformers. The building is due to be built on a site at Zoomlion's science park in Changsha, Hunan Province and will be used for exhibitions and product displays.

Other buildings that move on Dezeen include a house that slides open and huts that roll on railway tracks.

The Zoomlion Headquarters Exhibition Center is located in the city of Changsha, Hunan Province of China.

The project has a total of four floors with a footprint of 3,100 square meters, a total area of 10,074.90 square meters, and a total building height of 26 meters. Zoomlion is one of China’s leading manufacturers of heavy machinery equipment and ranked top 10 globally in the heavy machinery industry. Our criteria for the design for its headquarters exhibition center are to match its forward thinking, unique, and mechanistically imaginative corporate image and values.

Zoomlion is one of China's leading manufacturers of construction machinery equipment and is ranked top 10 globally in the construction machinery industry. amphibianArc was commissioned to design the exhibition center at its headquarters located in Changsha, China. Our criterion is to match its forward thinking, unique, and mechanistically imaginative corporate image and values.

Zoomlion Exhibition Center has a total of four floors with a footprint of 3,100 sqm, a total area of 10,074 sqm, and a total building height of 26 m. The building site is part of the Zoomlion Technology Park which covers 65,333 sqm.