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Construction of Chinese internet giant Tencent's new headquarters994 Archivesnearly done. The 50-story skyscraper will hold 12,000 employees and is slated to open in 2017.

Tencent is one of the largest tech firms in Asia, and is better known for running China's biggest messenger app, WeChat. It also owns Clash of Clansgame maker Supercell.

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This drone footage, provided to Mashablefrom American architecture firm NBBJ, shows Tencent's towering campus rising above the other buildings around it in the Shenzhen industrial area.

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The two towers are connected to each other by skybridges at floors 1, 21 and 34. Within, employees will have access to a running track, pool, meditation rooms and a rock-climbing facility, NBBJ notes.

It's also been widely publicised that smart rooms within will adjust temperature based on how many people are in them. Holographic tours are also reportedly in the works.

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If its headquarters seems extravagant, Tencent can probably afford it. The company just became the most valuable company in Asia, and one of the world's top ten by market capitalisation, being valued at HK$1.976 trillion ($254 billion) on Monday on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

NBBJ is also the architecture firm behind other tech firms' headquarters, such as Google, Samsung and Microsoft.

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