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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Hotel, Industry, Mixed Use, Office Tags: China architecture, Peter Ruge Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension
German architectural firm Peter Ruge Architekten proposed renovation and reconstruction of an old factory into a high quality hotel and office building in Hangzhou, China. The site is the historical Hangzhou Machine factory, the building concept aims to create a harmony of the sites inherent industrial character with a modern interior aesthetic. The Xintiandi old factory [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: China architecture, Foster + Partners, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Waterfront architecture
New CITIC headquarters tower in Hangzhou breaks ground construction has commenced on Foster + Partners’ first project in Hangzhou, China, with a sustainable, landmark headquarters tower for CITIC Bank. The tower has a prominent location in Hangzhou, next to one of the city’s most recognisable landmarks – our challenge has been to create a new [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Bridge, China, China architecture, Fluid form, Steel
The Long Sleeve Skywalk by Turenscape is a simple but graceful integration of complicated urban functions with poetic space. Straddling across several river systems and a express way (Xuning Road), the Long Sleeve Skywalk is located on Xuning Road, Suining County, Jiangsu Province. It connects the focal point of the county, Harmony Square, to the [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: China, China architecture, Green architecture, Turenscape
Built on a brownfield of a former industrial site, Houtan Park is a regenerative living landscape on Shanghai’s Huangpu riverfront. The park’s constructed wetland, ecological flood control, reclaimed industrial structures and materials, and urban agriculture are integral components of an overall restorative design strategy to treat polluted river water and recover the degraded waterfront in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: China, China architecture, LAVA
LAVA’s Home of the Future is a showcase for future living, with nature, technology and man in a new harmony. The Home of the Future will start construction in late 2011 on the rooftop of a new furniture mall in Beijing, China. An ETFE geodesic skydome provides a year-round microclimate that opens up the home [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: China, China architecture, Populous
Populous has won the competition to design the mater plan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. + Project description by Populous The master plan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China has been awarded to Populous, the world’s pre-eminent firm for the design of sporting special events including Olympic Games, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Atelier 11, China, China architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair
In Beijing, China-based architectural studio Atelier 11 has successfully converted the 30 years old factory building into the contemporary Inside-out Art Center. A simplistic aesthetic was adopted for the interiors of the Art Center with the intention to keep some characteristics of the previous industrial building, as a reflection to the history of the site. [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: China, China architecture, Concert Hall, Events/News, Fluid form, Performing Arts Center, Theater, Zaha Hadid
GuangZhou Opera House designed by Zaha Hadid is soon unveiled, located in the new city of Pearl River, the Guangzhou Opera House has become one of China’s three biggest theaters. If you are in China, or you plan to visit China next year, let’s take this chance to meet the world-renowned architect in GuangZhou Opera [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Atelier 11, China, China architecture, Concrete, Construction, Religious architecture
Designed by the Chinese architecture studio Atelier 11, this is a church located in Pan Long Gu, a national scenic area at Ji County in the city of Tianjing, China. As a religious facility built for a neighboring Spanish-style residential development, the design of the church takes the reference from the European architectural language and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: China architecture, EASTERN design office, Iconic architecture, Random pattern
Japanese studio EASTERN design office shared their competition proposal for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Wrestling Arena with us. + Full project description courtesy of EASTERN design office It is the international design proposal competition for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Wrestling Arena. During the Olympic Games, the wrestling arena has a 10,000-person capacity. After the Olympic [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: China architecture, gmp architekten, Lattice screen, Religious architecture, Skin, White
Hamburg-based architectural practice gmp architekten has designed the Zhongguancun Christian Church located in Beijing, China. The project features vertical fins running along the building’s perimeter that forming an unique homogeneous skin. It creates a special lighting atmosphere inside the church hall, matching the ecclesiastical function of the space. The shape of the church body does [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: BIG, China architecture, Exhibition, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Shanghai Expo 2010, White
May 1st 2010, is the grand opening day of Shanghai Expo 2010. The Danish Pavilion at Shanghai’s World Expo 2010 designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group opens to the public today. Also see the previous post of Denmark Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010. + PRESS RELEASE courtesy of BIG BIG celebrates the grand opening of the [...]
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