Urban Market / Kohn Pederson Fox
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The 2010 AIA New York winners were recently announced (we’ll share the full over view this weekend with you), and this project by Kohn Pedersen Fox received a design award in the Unbuilt category. Just like the other winning projects, the design showcases New York talent and was chosen for its “design quality, program resolution, innovation, thoughtfulness and technique.” The project, entitled Urban Market, is for Tianjin, China. The urban center is a way to reinvigorate the river banks through new uses, such as cultural institutions. The hope it that the center will grow to establish “a new identity for the city that links its culture to its historic place of commerce.”
More about the winning project after the break.
Clad in transparent materials, the building allows the interior program to engage the surrounding streets. The structure curves dramatically upward from the riverside and converges with the opposing six story south facade.
The building’s form engages the disconnected edges of the site and unites them within a single carapace. Two major interior boulevards allow pedestrians to flow from the east to west side of the site, and gather at a large central plaza. This porous circulation allows passersby to filter through the building at different entry points. This frequent flow of people turns the building into a modern version of a “traditional bustling merchant setting.”
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Kohn Pedersen Fox
Kohn Pedersen Fox
Kohn Pedersen Fox
Kohn Pedersen Fox
Location: Tianjin, China
Completion: 2014
Size: 1.6 million GSF / 153,000 GSM
Program: Retail
Awards: AIA New York City Chapter Design Award (2010), MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Award (2007)
Team Leaders:
Paul Katz, FAIA HKIA Managing Principal
James Von Klemperer, FAIA Design Principal
Jeffrey A. Kenoff, AIA Director / Sr. Designer
Gary Stluka, AIA Project Manager
Bernard Chang Project Manager Hong Kong
Audrey Choi Job Captain
Project Team:
Benjamin Albury, Bernard Chang, Hanna Chang, Shang Chen, Shih-I Chou, Sandra Choy, Thomas Coldefy, Javier Galindo, Onur Gun, James Jenkins, Heejin Kim, Yoojung Kim, Marianne Kwok, Fanny Lee, Terri Lee, Bonnie Leung, Ming Leung, Luis Llull, Manon Pare, SaeRa Park, Charles Portelli, Jose Sanchez, Samuel Schmitz, James Siow, Kristin Speth, Scott Springer, Kyle Steinfeld, Zhe Wang,
Scott Wilson, Nathan Wong
Client:
Hang Lung Properties
Associated Firms:
ADI Landscape, landscape; ALT Cladding & Deisng Phillippines, Exterior Wall; ARUP, structural; BPI , lighting; Rider Levett Bucknall, quantity surveyor; MVA Hong Kong, traffic; P&T International, Project Architect; Benoy, retail consultant; Parsons Brinckerhoff, MEP; TACE, local design institute
Ohhhh…Tianjin!!!
apparently only hot chicks visit KPF’S projects now..
renderings are starting to annoy me with their pseudo-utopian portrayals.
rupertKensi:
Why do you want to add an extra word to your description.
Pseudo = i have open my mouth, but i cannot think and dont have anything of substance to say.
anyways all architectural images/reprentations are utopian in character. Have you even experienced a section or elevation view in real life?
and another thing…..girls like shopping…TOOL!!!!
PRETTY NICE~!
I like it!
have anyone noticed that it looks like a fish wiyhout head and tail?:)
am i the only one that think it looks like another typical mall?
A titanic maggot. Yuck.
Plus, no matter how shiny they put it, a bunch of retail units and a cinema aren’t a “cultural institution”, so I hope they’re not seriously expecting us, Archdaily readers, to believe that they are. What’s the purpose of posting this as anything else but the mall it really is?
Come on, this does not look like a typical mall. If something, by making it transparent rather than the typical opaque box they are trying to exteriorize the workings of commercial lifestyles.
This definetly does not resemble a standard big box retail, which are often closed, miesian and edge defying. Lets take our bottle-bottom glasses off, and also that chip from out shoulders.
Renzo did this a decade ago
Urban Market …. what a fancy way to say it is a “Shoping Mall” !!!
When I read archdaily, I realize that most of the readers are useless, they don’t know anything but being jealous and complaining
“Oh,it’s expensive” “It’s not good, it’s not ECOblahblah” “Please stop! Zahaaaaaaaaaaa”
You are becoming cheaper and cheaper
Sorry if you can’t understand , my main languge isn’t English :)
Context-free architecture at its best.
This could be in Athens, Bogota, Caracas, Dalian, E, Frankfurt, Guilin, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Jakarta, Khartoum, Lagos, Montepellier, Nairobi, Omaha, Perth, Quebec City, Rangoon, Singapore, Tripoli, Ulan Bator, Vienna, Winnipeg, Xiamen, Yokohama and Zagreb.
no xiamen please. lol. u r right. no context consideration at all. But it’s not architecture, just a shopping mall. The bigger the better, that’s what developers think.
is good
1:30 PM Apr 11th
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9:52 PM Apr 11th
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