A multi-level urban campus where gardens, terraces, and tree canopies weave through the corporate headquarters, extending the landscape into the public realm and blurring the boundary between workplace and city life. (Photography: Zongyi Su/ ARCHISTOA)
Inspired by Xiamen’s reputation as a subtropical “garden on the sea,” the TikTok / ByteDance Xiamen Headquarters reimagines the campus as a living forest woven with culture and music. A central Music Wave Boulevard and Music Wave Valley link shaded gardens, amphitheaters, terraces, and rooftops, offering stages for performance, dining, and gathering. Extending Xiamen’s lively night-market tradition, the campus landscape extends into the public realm as a sequence of landscape rooms and blurs the boundary between corporate and civic life while converging nature, music, and technology.