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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AS/D, China architecture, Exhibition, Mexico, Shanghai Expo 2010
This Mexican Pavilion was the competition entry designed by AS/D for Shanghai Expo 2010. + Project description courtesy of AS/D World fairs are showcases that deploy human advancement in regard of science, art and technology – pavilions act as platforms to exchange culture, history, experience and innovative ideas about the future. The design scheme for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: China architecture, Competition, Stadium, UNStudio
Dalian Football Stadium is the winning proposal designed by Dutch architectural practice UNStudio for a 40,000 spectator football stadium which will be built in the city of Dalian, Northeast China. The design of the Dalian Football Stadium is inspired by the classic Chinese football, which was made by layering coloured bamboo. For the stadium design [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, China architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Green architecture, Skyscrapers
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar have won the first prize to design sustainable skyscraper – Shenzhen International Energy Mansion in Shenzhen, China. The façade is conceived as a folded skin that shades the office complex from direct sunlight and integrates solar thermal panels, reducing the overall energy [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: 3GATTI, Architecture Award, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Exhibition, Folding architecture, Museum
This is a project winner of the international invitation competition for the construction of the Automobile Museum in Nanjing, designed by Italy-based architecture studio 3GATTI to explore the relationship between car and museum. The competition was organized last year by the government of Nanjing and Jiangsu Head Investment Group. A building to be dedicated to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: China architecture, Landscape architecture, Marco Casagrande, Shelter, Taiwan, Timber
Chen House by Finnish architect Marco Casagrande and Frank Chen. It was built as a shelter for farmers on an old japanese cherry farm in the Datun mountains of North-Taiwan. + Project description courtesy of Marco Casagrande The house is realized on an old Japanese cherry-farm in the Datun – mountains of North-Taiwan. It is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Aedas, China architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Green architecture, Iconic architecture
International architectural firm Aedas has designed an Administration & Information Centre for Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University located in Suzhou Industrial Park, China. This is the Architecture Award winning project awarded by the Asia Pacific Commercial Property Awards 2009. With the environmental concern, the void on facade is not only creating the impressive architectural perspective but also inviting [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: China architecture, OBRA Architects, ORDOS
Villa of Captured Distance designed by OBRA Architects is located in lot 16 of the ORDOS project. ORDOS100 was originally organized by Jacques Herzog and Ai Weiwei in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. Villa of Captured Distance is included in the first phase of projects which are planned for construction later this year. + Project description [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: China architecture
An academic project from the Landscape Urbanism Program at the AA School – Ecotransitional Urbanism, designed by Jorge Ayala to explore the relationship between the built and its context. + Design statement courtesy of Jorge Ayala It was in 2000 that the Chinese government formulated a plan to build 400 new cities by 2020, in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Landscape, Selected Tags: China architecture, Exhibition, Features, Plasma Studio, Waterfront architecture
Flowing Gardens, designed by London-based Plasma Studio for the International Horticultural Fair in Xi’an, China. Circulation is the key idea to develop the whole scheme, the circulation flow begins as a single stream, and then broadens, branching out to form the borders of garden spaces. The gate building is placed at the junction of those [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Graft, Landscape architecture, Skin, Taiwan
Ao-Di Next Gene 20 Villa, by German-based Graft Architects. The villa is sited in the “Northeast Coast National Scenic Area”, approximately 50 minutes from Taipei city, Taiwan. Situated in the Snow Mountain range, with a great view of the Pacific Ocean. The villa was designed to be embedded in the landscape with panoramic view under [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Residential, Selected Tags: China architecture, Concert Hall, Features, Iconic architecture, Perforated, Skin, Theater, Yazdani Studio
Located in the southwestern part of Inner Mongolia, in Ordos City, the Kaokaoshina New District is an emerging art and cultural district organized by Ai Wei Wei. Kaokaoshina is positioned to be a thriving tourist destination, in anticipation, the development calls for a series of villas for people to live and visit to experience this [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: China architecture, Competition, Contemporary architecture, ESD design, Features, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Theater, Visiondivision
A young Sweden based architecture firm Visiondivision believes in strong concepts and constantly re-investigating their role as architects by always pushing the limits of their field of work and the strategies of their design. Tornado, is an entry for an opera competition in Taiwan which was a collaboration with Markus Wagner, a member of Svensk [...]
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