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Major works to visit include the Xi’an International Football Centre, Xi’an, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, and the Wormhole Library, Haikou, Hainan Province, by MAD Architects.
Key major recent structures are Changzhou Culture Center by Germany’s gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners · Architects, and Shanghai Sanctum by Wutopia Lab.
Finally, we feature Fuhuali Jinan, an innovative hub by CLOU architects. Across from Jinan’s famous lake, geometric volumes form a multi-level waterfront village, an animated commercial and social meeting point with a front-row view.
With over 300,000 square meters of land area, the entire private cluster housing development is divided into two phases, with which the whole development will be equipped with leisure, entertainment, retails and institutional facilities.
A 37-story mixed-use complex in Chengdu, China, recently reached substantial completion and opened its first phase, the 111,500-square-meter Chicony Plaza department store.
A building represents human beings’ taking a place in the nature, an interpretation and visualization of the genius loci. Hallelujah Concert Hall is designed in such a way as to strategically take a pose in the landscape so that the mountain, water, forest, and fields are gathered.
Three ribbon elements – the lower deck, upper deck and arched support structure – combine into an integrated object, in harmony both structurally and visually.
After perennial design and construction phase the congress center of the new city administration of Hangzhou, China is completed
Hua’An County City Masterplan, Southern Fujian Province, China design by BDP covering an area of 15 square kilometres, World Heritage Site + National Forest
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.
Wuhan Greenland Center Tower, Chinese skyscraper building by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture competition: 606 meters (1,988 feet), AS+GG China
As for a building located in a valley close to one of the top national scenery parks, the Panshan Mountain Park in the city of Tianjin, the concept behind the design of Pan Long Gu Valley Conference and Exhibition Centre takes inspiration from the beautiful natural surroundings it sits in and the classic aesthetics in traditional Chinese landscape paintings.
Alibaba Headquarters, Hangzhou, China design by HASSELL: new international workplace standards in China, 150,000 sqm of flexible open-plan office space
Hangzhou Gateway, China – design by JDS Architects – Julien De Smet – The concept of the building is to create a gateway that is neither closing-off or dividing the city. The 15-story tower features offices, restaurants, post office, a terraced roof garden and a sunken passage that leads through a shopping center. The rooftop terraces offer generous views to the distant nature while the stone louvers provide a sustainable solution to the office conditions. The building will become the gateway for the Gongshu District and an icon for the urban transformation of the old industrial neighborhood.
BDP has been appointed to design an exemplar very low carbon and sustainable apartment building in Nanjing, China, by regional developer Landsea which specialises in green, high-tech residential developments.
Xi’an International Horticultural Expo has officially opened last Thursday and already received more than 200,000 visitors over the first weekend
China Comic and Animation Museum Hangzhou Building. Hangzhou urban planning bureau has announced MVRDV winner of the international design competition for the CCAM.
Construction has commenced on Foster + Partners first project in Hangzhou, China, with a sustainable, landmark headquarters tower for CITIC Bank. The 100-metre-high skyscraper’s bold diagonally-braced structure will establish an iconic presence for the Bank.
Vantone Center Tianjin CBD development design by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) – China corporate headquarters office building
NDA Planning, part of NDA Design Associates, an international French-based architectural practice, creates new ‘Balanced City’ concept that wins international urban masterplan competition in Dalian, Northern China.