Shanghai Expo British Pavilion
The brief stated that the Pavilion had to be extraordinary – an iconic structure that offered a bold vision of the UK in the 21st Century as a creative, innovative and exciting country.
The brief stated that the Pavilion had to be extraordinary – an iconic structure that offered a bold vision of the UK in the 21st Century as a creative, innovative and exciting country.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has been selected by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) to lead an architectural workshop and trade mission to Shanghai from 19-23 July 2010.
The Expo site is located at the Huangpu River west of the town centre Pudong. The Expo Boulevard and the main part of the Expo – national and theme-based pavilions, as well as innovative urban concepts – Better City, Better Life.
The pavilion is the main product that each Country shows at an international expo. In this sense, before being a building, a pavilion is a model, an example of its own culture.
The China Diamond Exchange Center, designed by Goettsch Partners (GP), recently opened in Shanghai. Commissioned by Shanghai Lujiazui Development Co. Ltd., the 535,500-square-foot office building is located on Century Avenue.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office today reveals updated designs for the UK pavilion that will represent this country at Shanghai Expo 2010; its theme being ‘Better City, Better Life’.
Barbie Shanghai store on trendy Huai Hai Road in Shanghai China, first-ever Barbie flagship. Opened 2009, the 35,000 sqft store held world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of Barbie dolls and licensed Barbie products,
Annie Chung, director of Studio Twist, has completed the interior master-planning and design for a 3,000 sqm furniture showroom and museum in Shanghai comprising high-end European furniture brands.
The competition brief required an iconic solution for a landmark site. The site occupies an entire city block within close proximity of the historic Shanghai Bund.
Five-star resort hotel in China: the stunning 350-bed hotel, which will form the centrepiece of Lingang New Town, near Shanghai, will be on an island in a circular lake.
The RÉN building design by BIG architects is a proposal for a hotel, sports and conference centre for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. This is modern Chinese architecture by Danish architects.
Shanghai expo 2010 Italian pavilion competition project: Pavilion’s dynamic shape represents italian innovation and fantasy, meanwhile the better city – better life theme is represented trough the main features of italian urban quality.
At the end of the entrance avenue the information center is unique by its location. Inserted between the two first main exhibition halls, it has to stay different.
The Shanghai Expo Spanish Pavilion project proposed by EMBT consists on developing the handicraft technique of the wicker into a practice of construction.
BBG-BBGM is the design architect for The Peninsula Shanghai Hotel & Apartments located in the newly-redeveloped Waitanyuan neighborhood on Shanghai’s historic Bund.
The Oriental Arts Centre project is a first rank public cultural building, encompassing mainly three venues : a 1,979 seats Philharmonic Orchestra Hall, a 1,054 seats lyric Theatre, a 330 seats chamber Music Hall.
During the day, at the end of Century Avenue, opposite Town Hall, it is a building made of curves out of a pearl gray, shiny material. It resembles no other building in the city.
Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China.
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