Senior Associate
BArch
Shenzhen, China
Armando Solano
Photograph by Frederic Aranda ©
Photograph by Xue Liang 薛亮
With a portfolio spaning across high-rise office towers, retail, education, and airport projects, Armando has playes a key role in delivering key ZHA projects, including Leeza SOHO in Beijing, Navi Mumbai Airport, Western Sydney International Airport and OPPO Headquarters tower in Shenzhen. His expertise lies in technical and construction coordination.
Prior to ZHA, Armando spent eight years in the construction industry and worked as an Associate at Frank Gehry’s Los Angeles office, where he coordinated architectural services for various international commercial, residential, concert hall, and museum projects.
Photograph by Hufton + Crow
Featured Projects
From a tower with the world’s tallest atrium to OPPO’s new headquarters in Shenzhen discover highlights of Armando's notable projects at ZHA.
Armando completed his Bachelor of Architecture as a Valedictorian at the University of Hawaii in the US and studied engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder in the US. He lectures for various construction industry organisations.
Armando’s upbringing in Colombia and education in the US have profoundly shaped him as an architect and given him a multicultural lens to approaching design. Outside the office, he enjoys travelling, hiking, and sketching.
Projects
Explore a selection of projects Armando has contributed to since joining ZHA.
Courtesy of ZHA
Offices
Conceived as four interconnected towers reaching a height of 200m (42 floors), the 185,000 sq.m design incorporates two towers of flexible, open-plan spaces linked by a 20-storey vertical lobby, and two external service towers providing vertical circulation.
Photograph by Brett Boardman Photography
Transport + Infrastructure
ZHA and Cox Architecture have won the international design competition for the new Western Sydney Airport (WSA) and been appointed as Master Architect for the project. The ZHA/COX team was selected from a broad field of forty national and international applicants that was narrowed to five selected design competitors.
Photograph by Hufton + Crow
Tall Buildings
Offices
Located on Lize Road in southwest Beijing, Leeza SOHO tower anchors the new Fengtai business district; a growing financial and transport hub between the city centre and the recently opened Beijing Daxing International Airport to the south.
Courtesy of Soho China, photograph by Jerry Yin
Offices
Mixed Use
Located in Wangjing’s centre, Wangjing Soho is a mixed-use development consisting of three towers 118, 127, 200 metres in height designed as three interweaving ‘mountains’ that fuse building and landscape to bring together the surrounding community with a new 60,000m² public park. The design responds to the flows of the city and allows natural daylight into each building from all directions.
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