Comments on: International firms invited by MAD to design “Huaxi City Centre” in China

By: Jasem Nadoum

Jasem Nadoum — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:09:49 +0000

International firms invited by MAD to design “Huaxi City Centre” in China | ArchDaily http://t.co/5ZixkuH4 via @archdaily

By: norman phung

norman phung — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:06:32 +0000

It is so irresponsible. I supposed by now we would have expected that from MAD. When will architects stand up and say no to developers doing project such as theses? Go dense in urban areas and waste any more of fertile land.

By: Milosz Lodowski

Milosz Lodowski — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:22:32 +0000

Nothing more to say – except – I wanna be there ;) http://t.co/0ftgNj8W

By: zhang ruizhi

zhang ruizhi — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:07:41 +0000

so disappointed to look at this kind

By: daniella molina

daniella molina — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:35:43 +0000

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By: Goag

Goag — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:21:03 +0000

i totally agree……

By: Complejo Huaxi en china | greenmob.com.mx

Complejo Huaxi en china | greenmob.com.mx — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:31:28 +0000

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By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:49:25 +0000

Most of these projects are just an insult to the landscape…
what happened to the 3500 years of China’s history? I bet none of these ‘architects’ had a look through China’s culture, history… What worries me the most is that most of cities around the world are starting to look like this ! I think our planet should be called ‘planet dump’ instead !

On a positive side, there are a few of them worth having a closer look. The proposals by Serie and mass studies are interesting in my opinion, they both have a better gesture towards the landscape but still have a lot to improve !

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:56:57 +0000

This is a bad copy of an idea of a chinese garden which was given before by an Iranian designer ( Habibeh Madjdabadi ) in MOCAPE Shenzhen Competition

By: flip

flip — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:06:23 +0000

i think that, its too much for a communist country..

By: Juan

Juan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:21:30 +0000

I do really like Rojkind Arquitectos, not this project…

By: Al

Al — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:54:02 +0000

geez…. this is ridiculous. these aren’t amazing projects and I don’t understand how this collaboration responds to the challenges of building in China or even functions as a masterplan. If this is the work and vision of young architects at their most imaginative and free-thinking, our profession has something to worry about. Not even nice eye candy in most proposals… pure self ingratiation. You participating ‘architects’ should really reexamine your motivations.

By: xxx

xxx — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:27:37 +0000

wow, what a waste of webspace. who wants to see this kind of “architecture”. total lack of masterplan or open space. the buildings themself all second or third grade student work. sometimes it would be better to have eiter skill or spend some work or effort on projects rather than knocking them out on a daily basis. freakish stuff. this dineylandish approach to architecture has reached the young hot guys and third grade architects. think of ordos 100, busan, now that. it’s getting worse and worse. looks like a graveyard for ugly towers.

while real architecture firms are collapsing all over the world and people are sacked in the thousands every months we need to see how the big players turn worse and worse (check zahas and coop himmelb(l)au’s latest schemes if you want) and now those silly project mock and ridicule our education. maya can’t save the world guys, and rhino won’t either.

architecture is going the wrong way. maybe we all need a crash to re-evaluate and rethink our profession.

By: mmedinah22

mmedinah22 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:52:44 +0000

Very amazing project.Nice to see something from Rojkind Arquitectos

By: Xing

Xing — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:46:12 +0000

a perfect destroy when crazy masses meet up with the agriculture contours.

By: damon0131

damon0131 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:59:55 +0000

http://www.archdaily.com/14641/international-firms-invited-by-mad-to-design-huaxi-city-centre-in-china/

By: Keomi

Keomi — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:45:50 +0000

This disaster of a masterplan is the result of too many architects and no landscape architects, urban designers, planners and yes even engineers! For a sensible masterplan you need a multidisciplinary team lead by someone who understands the site, not a collection of egos trying to out-do each other. (Simon’s Jimi Hendrix annalogy is perfect.)

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:44:40 +0000

It’s a speculative project, simon et al. Nothing has been destroyed. I think at this time, projects of improvisation are very necessary. In a previous recession, and before he became the wise old man of the blogs, Woods had detractors flashing knives at his floating city drawings.

By: chicago-g

chicago-g — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:23:50 +0000

a very good example that “architect” tends to design only for image, for getting attention, for surprsing people. MAD started with copying ZAHA, and has not changed yet so far. not a surprise such a event organised by them ends up like a disaster.

By: simon

simon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:05:26 +0000

Most of the projects here I’m sure have merit within their own individual investigations. However all of them seem to have completely ignored some fundamental considerations that are critical to being good architecture, or good development. In their own egotistical effort centralized on individual investigations that are exclusive of both the site and each other, they’ve managed to effectively destroy another beautiful piece of China and turn it into a pile of children’s toys. I mean, jimi hendrix is amazing, but you can’t make a band from a dozen jimi hendrixs.