New Chinese architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. China building news from across this major Asian country.
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.
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.
2 high rise towers, which will comprise of a 200m tall 5 star hotel and 150 m high apartment building above a 4 storey mixed commercial and leisure podium.
David Chipperfield Architects has recently completed Ninetree Village and Liangzhu Culture Museum – the practice’s first two projects in China.
During the earthquake as the rock fell from the mountains and the buildings collapsed the atmosphere was engulfed with dust, the light disappeared and it was difficult to breathe.
Sinosteel International Plaza design by MAD Architects is a new, organic, honeycomb icon for the redeveloped city of Tianjin, eastern China.
On one hand, there are fantastic landscapes for Qingcheng Mountain, with continuous brooks and wreathed mist…On the other hand, there are private art galleries, with extremely personal art attitudes and contemporary features…
Hangzhou boutique: store design by SAKO Architects – Chinese building interior, retail photos, China shop designer, boutique, architecture, Hangzhou store
Tianjin Development – DCF news: upcoming lectures – China Going Green, masterplan architecture, Chinese building images, architect, city projects
The concept describes the spatial strategy that Groundlab has used for the implementation of the underground development in conjunction with public space design and the river crossing.
The riverside (Hun river) location of the site is exploited as a landscape quality for the 3 new residential districts. A variety of different housing structures were developed for the village.
The main difficulty of the project is to create an overall unity between the different buildings in a large space separated by a road. Winner of an architecture competition in April 2004.
The project totals 1,878,000 square feet and features a 180-key Park Hyatt hotel, 430,000 square feet of offices, 65,000 square feet of retail, 24 condominiums, 174 serviced apartments, and underground parking for 700 cars.
Hangzhou building design by Sheppard Robson: 6m sqft development in China – 5 office towers, five-star hotel tower, residential tower