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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.
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.
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.
Liangzhu Culture Museum Hangzhou, David Chipperfield Chinese architecture project design images. DCA project for Zhejiang Vanke Narada Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. 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.