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Datong Sports Park – Populous
August 9th, 2010 | Author: admin
The sports park which includes a 30,000 seat stadium, an 8,000 seat arena, a 1500 seat natatorium and a multiuse training hall, is part of a larger plan by the Datong Mayor to regenerate the historic old city and create a new city centre with other development including a city hall, museum, convention centre.
The win for Populous, which has its Asian base in Queensland, comes as its first sports park in Nanjing celebrates five years of successful operation. Populous won an IOC/IAKS Gold Award for the design of Nanjing, built for the 2005 China National Games, and the catalyst for a major city centre development. [More info after the break.]
Dalian Shell Museum – The Design Institute of Civil Engineering & Architecture of DUT
April 7th, 2010 | Author: admin
Architects: The Design Institute of Civil Engineering & Architecture of DUT
Location: Dalian, China
Project Area: 18,000 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Dalian Shell Museum
Momentary City / CR Land Hefei Dongdajie Sales Pavilion – Vector Architects
January 5th, 2010 | Author: admin
Architect: Vector Architects
Location: Hefei, China
Client: CR Land
Design-partner-in-charge: Gong Dong
Project Architect: Jiajun Chen, Qun Sun
Structural/Mechanical Engineer: Huanyu Design Institute, Hefei
Project Area: 900 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Shuhe Photo & Vector Architects
Demolition Fail
January 2nd, 2010 | Author: admin
Here is another example of a building demolition fail, this time in Liuzhou, China. Now they have their own “Pisa Tower”
Mosaic – SAKO Architects
December 21st, 2009 | Author: admin
Architects: SAKO Architects / Keiichiro SAKO, Tetsuo YAMAJI, Yu Fujita
Location: Beijing, China
Site area: 15,869 sqm
Building area: 8,137 sqm
Total floor space: 100,359 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2008
Photographs: Shu He & Misae Hiromatsu
UNStudio Selected to Design Football Stadium in Dalian, China
October 6th, 2009 | Author: admin
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. The stadium will be built in the club’s hometown of the city of Dalian, on the southern tip of Liaodong peninsula in Northeast China.
Dalian Shide Stadium – NBBJ
September 21st, 2009 | Author: admin
Dalian Shide Stadium – NBBJNBBJ’s proposed design for the new Dalian Shide football stadium in China represents a new direction in sports architecture by moving away from the creation of a building based on pure form. The organic architecture of the building challenges the typical stadium typology to become more than an impressive skin wrapped around an ordinary seating bowl.
Designed to emulate a garden, NBBJ’s Garden Stadium has only what is needed to thrive, and those functions are clearly organized and expressed. This simple effectiveness in design leads to a dramatically improved fan experience as well as greater ease of operations. In addition, the building’s carbon footprint is minimized, making Garden Stadium a part of a larger sustainable community.
ROMANTICISM2 in Hangzhou – SAKO Architects
July 28th, 2009 | Author: admin
Project: ROMANTICISM2
Author: SAKO ARchitects
Keiichiro Sako
Place: Hangzhou, China
Period: 2006.8-2007.8
Floor Area: 1,142m2
Type: Shop
Photography: Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners Inc.
Hong Luo Club – MAD
July 21st, 2009 | Author: admin
Project: Hong Luo Club
Author: MAD
Director in Charge: Yansong Ma, Yosuke Hayano
Project Architect: Florian Pucher
Competition Team: Shen Jun,Christian Taubert, Marco Zuttioni,Yu Kui
Location: Beijing, China
Building Area: 487.5 sqm
Completed: 2006
Client: Beijing Earth Real Estate Develops Company
Photography: Shu He
Raffles City Hangzhou – UNStudio
July 20th, 2009 | Author: admin
Project: Raffles City Hangzhou
UNStudio – Concept Design and Schematic Design: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Astrid Piber with Hannes Pfau, Markus van Aalderen
Team: Juliane Maier, Marc Salemink, Shu Yan Chan and Andreas Bogenschuetz, Marina Bozukova, Brendon Carlin, Miklos Deri, Gary Freedman, Juergen Heinzel, Alexander Hugo, Abhijit Kapade, Marcin Koltunski, Fernie Lai, James Leng, Peter Moerland, Rudi Nieveen, Hans-Peter Nuenning, Hyunil Oh, Yi Cheng Pan, Steffen Riegas, Rikjan Scholten, Ioana Sulea, Christian Veddeler, Luming Wang, Zhenfei Wang, Rein Werkhoven, Georg Willheim
Advisors – LDI: China United Engineering Corporation, Hangzhou SMEP, Fire, LEED: Arup
Facade: Meinhardt Façade Technology, Hong Kong Transport: MVA, Hong Kong
Client: CapitaLand
Location: Hangzhou, China
Building surface: 389,489 m2
Building site: 40,355m2
Programme: Mixed-use, incorporating commercial buildings: Class A office buildings, five-star hotels and high end residential buildings.
Status: Planned realisation 2012
Book Bar – Michael Maltzan
June 3rd, 2009 | Author: admin
Jinhua Architecture Park, China
All images by: Iwan Baan
The project’s concept expands on an important confluence between the book and architecture in Chinese history: in the third century B.C.E., a descendant of the philosopher Confucius concealed several of his texts in a wall when the emperor ordered all Confucian writings burned. From this historic juncture of books and building, the pavilion’s form pulls its central wall outward into two unequal, cantilevered arms, each concealing within a public space for learning.
