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The next big event in China after the Beijing Olympics and Shanghai Expo with a projected 12 Mio visitors for the coming 6 months, Xi’an International Horticultural Expo has officially opened last Thursday and already received more than 200,000 visitors over the first weekend. The ancient city of Xi’an- home to the Terracotta Army and many buildings of unique historical significance- is using this opportunity to focus on the current challenges from its recent growth and transformation. [More images and project description after the break]
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Project: Tang Palace
Architect: FCJZ
Atelier Feichang Jianzhu
Location: Hangzhou, China
Client: HongKong Tang Palace Food&Beverage Group Co., LTD.
Area: 2460
Materials: Bamboo, Composite Panel, Rubbed Concrete
Principal Designer: Chang Yung Ho
Project Architect: Lin Yihsuan
Design Team: Yu Yue, Wu Xia, Suiming Wang
Construction Period: February 2010–July 2010
General Contractor: Shenzhen C.S.C. Decoration Design Engineering CO., LTD Beijing Branch
Finish material: Wall__bamboo(1f), marble(2f)/ Flooring__terrazzo(1f), carpet(2f) /  Ceiling __bamboo net(1f), painting(2f)
Photographer: Shu He

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EMERGENT Tom Wiscombe, a Los Angeles based practice, won the competition for the desing of the new Shenyang Civic Sports Center and 2013 National Games Arena in China’s Northeast. The 123,000 sqm facility combines a sports civic center, a national games taekwondo arena and a swimming arena in an exciting ETFE bubble-clad light-weight structure. Project description and more images after the break.
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Project: Giant Interactive Group Corporate Headquarters
Architects: Morphosis Architects
Location: Shanghai, China
Client: Giant Interactive Group
Project area: 253,300 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2010
Photographs: © Iwan Baan

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171 Students from around the world attended the one-week workshop at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. In association with the AA summer school and sponsored by Gehry Technologies the workshop taught students how to generate, parametrically control, and fabricate complex geometry. [More info and images after the break]

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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.]

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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

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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

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Here is another example of a building demolition fail, this time in Liuzhou, China. Now they have their own “Pisa Tower”

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

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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.

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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.

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Project: Yanlord Peninsula
Author: RMJM Architects
Location: China

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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.

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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

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