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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.
Datong Library aims to resolve the tension between the two major roles of a central library: as a place of community promenade and gathering and as an archive of knowledge and quite place of study.
Keppie, one of the UK’s leading design practices, has secured its first architectural project in China. The firm will design a community theatre as part of a mixed-use urban masterplan, for Chinese client Yuanyi Baizhuang Investment Group.
Like many other cities in China, Hefei is undergoing a rapid transformation. The original urban fabric was torn apart and discarded, replaced by giant blocks of anonymous structures and forms. The present Hefei is just a fleeting moment on its relentless march toward the future.
Baqiao District Housing: Xi’an architecture, China, design by Leo Daly Architects, 435-hectare (1075 acres) site. The project plans high-density housing development alongside the Ba River in the historic city of Xi’an.
The winning concept, designed by HMC Architects and Shunde Architectural Design Institute, integrates Eastern medicine and culture with Western innovation in healthcare planning and design to serve 6,000 outpatient visits per day.
Xiling Cable-Car Station building images, Sichuan ski resort design by Sutherland Hussey Architects in China: Chinese mountain sports architecture
The Bridge Culture Museum is located at the centre of the QiaoYuan Park, Tianjin. Because of it special location, on the central axis facing to the main entrance, this zone is designed as a leisure and exhibition space in order to meet people’s needs of ‘pleasurable show space’.
UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel’s design selected for new football stadium in China Unstudio has won the limited competition for a 40,000 spectator football stadium for the most successful club in the Chinese Super League: Dalian Shide FC.
Located in a rural nature preserve near Hangzhou, the Xixi Wetland Art Museum will be a destination for both nature and art. The design respects the surroundings, yet is an innovatively modern expression of humanity and art.
Goettsch Partners (GP) has been selected as the winning firm in the competition to design the Soochow Securities Headquarters, the new office and stock exchange building for Soochow Securities Co. Ltd.
It was a selected project in the AA | FAB competition and will be included in an exhibit organized in London in September 2009.
The master-plan sets out to establish Xiling and its surrounding area as a major tourist attraction in China, whilst promoting a clear framework for the preservation of a vital natural ecosystem of National and International importance.
UK-based international architects RMJM today, 21 May 2009 announced that it has won a project to design a unique campus in Suzhou, China, which will aim to provide the most sophisticated facilities in the country for nurturing a future generation of entrepreneurs.
AS.Architecture-Studio wins international competition jointly organised by the local government and Harbin Construction and Investment Group. Works will start in 2010.
GINGKO BACCHUS Restaurant in Chengdu, Capital of Sichuan Province in China, the GINGKO BACCHUS Restaurant is a surrealistic blend (respectively “graft”) of western and Chinese restaurant and food culture.
Throughout China’s ultra-rapid urbanization, attention has been focused on set-piece architecture: opera houses, museums, stadia. However these would-be icons are the exception rather than the rule. The vast majority of development in China’s new cities takes the form of residential schemes, often standardized and cheap to guarantee a quick return for the developer. Is it possible to build high-density, economically viable housing which is also architecturally innovative?
Designed by architect Marshall Strabala, the Nanjing Greenland Financial Center (above) is a 297,290-square meters (3.2 million-square foot) mixed-use development including office space, hotel, retail and apartments in Nanjing, China.