Shanghai Oriental Sports Center / gmp architekten
The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center (SOSC) just celebrated its opening for the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships from 16th to 31st July 2011. The sports complex was designed and built by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), who won the competitive bidding in 2008, and constructed it in under two and a half years. It consists of a hall stadium for several sports and cultural events, a natatorium (swimming hall), an outdoor swimming pool and a media centre. In keeping with a sustainable urban development policy, the SOSC was built on former industrial brownfield land along the Huangpu River. The individual venues are designed so that after the Swimming Championships, they can be used for a variety of other purposes.
Architects: gmp architekten
Location: Shanghai, China
Design: Meinhard von Gerkan and Nikolaus Goetze with Magdalene Weiss
Project Leader: Chen Ying
Team: Jan Blasko, Lü Cha, Lü Miao, Jörn Ortmann, Sun Gaoyang, Yan Lüji, Jin Zhan, Fang Hua, Martin Friedrich, Fu Chen, Ilse Gull, Kong Rui, Lin Yi, Katrin Löser, Ren Yunping, Alexander Schober, Nina Svensson, Tian Jinghai, Zhang Yan, Zhou Yunkai, Zhu Honghao
Project Year: 2011
Client: Shanghai Administration of Sports
Photographs: Marcus Bredt
Red Town Office / Taranta Creations
Architects: Taranta Creations / Enrico Taranta, Juriaan Calis, Giorgio Radojkovic
Location: Shanghai, China
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 120 sqm
Photographs: Shen Qiang / Shen Photo
Matsu Flagship Store / EXH Design
Architects: EXH Design
Location: Zhaojiabang Road, Shanghai, China
Project area: 1,800 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Meng Studio
XL+ Office Space / Great City & Architecture
Architects: Great City & Architecture
Location: Shanghai, China
Project area: 250 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Wenjie HU
Shanghai Museum of Glass / Logon Architecture
Architects: logon | urban.architecture.design
Location: Shanghai, China
Project area: 29,612 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of logon | urban.architecture.design
Brownstone Bar / Kokaistudios
Architects: Kokaistudios
Location: Shanghai, China
Interior design: Andrea Destefanis, Pietro Peyron, Carmen Lee
Client: Blue Horizon Hospitality Group
Project area: 130 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Charlie Xia
unMADE IN CHINA: Architecture Undone in P.R.C.
Ide@s invites architects and designers to submit work to participate in this year’s exhibit “unMADE IN CHINA: Architecture Undone in the P.R.C.”. Any unrealized or undone commissioned projects in China of all program types and scales are welcome. A public opening of the exhibit will be held at ide@s Gallery in Shanghai from September 2nd to October 1st, 2011. The exhibit will travel to Beijing and Los Angeles thereafter.
All eligible entries will be incorporated into exhibit, virtual exhibit, and catalogue. The jury will then select 12 finalists to display in greater detail. This will include large-scale printed panels, 3D animations, and physical models. All exhibition material will be produced by the gallery, at no cost to participants. For more information, please visit the exhibition’s official website.
Shanghai Houtan Park / Turenscape
Built on a brownfield of a former industrial site, Houtan Park is a regenerative living landscape on Shanghai’s Huangpu riverfront. The park’s constructed wetland, ecological flood control, reclaimed industrial structures and materials, and urban agriculture are integral components of an overall restorative design strategy to treat polluted river water and recover the degraded waterfront in an aesthetically pleasing way.
Landscape Architect: Turenscape (Beijing Turen Design Institute)
Location: Shanghai, 2010 Shanghai Expo Park, China
Project Area: 14 hectares
Project Year 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Turenscape
The Bay / Atelier FCJZ
Architects: Atelier Feichang Jianzhu - Yung Ho CHANG
Location: Shanghai, China
Project architect: Liu Lubin
Project team: Wang Siuming, Liu Yang, Shi Chao, Qiu Yukui
Client: Shanghai Qingchen Real Estate Development Co., LTD.
Constructor: Zhejiang Shunjie Construction Group Co., LTD
Interior design: Li Weimin
Project area: 19,495 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2010
Photographs: Atelier Feichang Jianzhu
Giant Interactive Group Corporate Headquarters / Morphosis Architects
Architects: Morphosis Architects
Location: Shanghai, China
Client: Giant Interactive Group
Project area: 253,300 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2010
Photographs: Iwan Baan
JNBY / HHD_FUN Architects
Architects: HHD_FUN Architects
Location: Shanghai, China
Structural Engineer: H & J International
Project area: 150 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: C0urtesy of HHD_FUN Architects
Jardin de Jade Restaurant I / P A L Design Consultants
Architects: P A L Design Consultants Ltd
Location: Shanghai, China
Project area: 20,000 sq. ft.
Photographs: Courtesy of P A L Design Consultants
Miele House / Kokaistudios
Architects: Kokaistudios
Location: Shanghai, China
Architecture renovation team: Andrea Destefanis, Filippo Gabbiani, Carmen Lee, Li Wei, Song Qin
Interior Design Team: Andrea Destefanis, Filippo Gabbiani, Carmen Lee, Chara Yang, Coco Cheng, Jeanne Chen
Project area: 1,350 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Kokaistudios
Double Infinity Exhibition / HHD_FUN
Double Infinity is a collaborative exhibition by HHD_FUN in collaboration with Holland Van Abbe Museum and Arthub, commissioned by Holland Art Center. It’s opening coincides with the opening of the Shanghai World Expo and is aimed at connecting these two countries, China and Holland, and two cities – Shanghai and Eindhoven. The aim is to conduct an impressive virtual dialogue by sharing the respective daily conditions and spatial features. More images and exhibition description after the break.
Uniqlo Shanghai / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Located within the main shopping district of Shanghai, the Uniqlo flagship store’s backlit skin of perforated metal, dramatic circular track with mannequins encased in acrylic futuristic capsules, robotic lighting, steel gravity tubes and glass panels successfully accomplished BCJ’s goal to create an iconic building for their client.
To say this project was challenging would be an understatement. It wasn’t just the teams working in three different languages and three different countries, or the state of the existing building – a dirt floored vacant building, but these circumstances paired with a government edict that all construction had to be within 30cm (12 inches) of the existing facade and completed prior to the Shanghai Expo in three months or the client would risk losing their lease added a bit of pressure. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson coordinated with the buildings original designers, Shanghai based Jiang Architects & Engineers to create a memorable flagship store for Uniqlo.
Photographs and sketches of Uniqlo Shanghai following the break.
Architects: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Location: Shanghai, China
Principal for Design: Peter Bohlin, FAIA
Principal in Charge: Robert Miller AIA, LEED AP
Project Manager: Chris Evans, AIA
Project Team: Mark Adams Campie Ellis, AIA Nguyen Ha, Michael Hatcher, Nick Hons, Matt Wittman
Owner: Fast Retailing, Inc. Ltd. (Parent Company of Uniqlo)
Consultant: PCS Structural Solutions
Lighting Design: Candela
Facade Consultant: Axis Façade,
Rotating and Flying Mannequin Consultant: ZFX
Local Architect of Record: Jiang Architects & Engineers
Local Structural Engineer: Jiang Architects & Engineers
Translator: Turid Gronning
Contractor: Tanseisha Co. Ltd.
Project Area: 38,751 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Nic Lehoux, Nácasa and Partners, Inc.
800SHOW Creative Park / Logon Architecture
Architects: Logon Architecture
Location: Jing’an district, Shanghai, China
Building area: 22,000 sqm
Project year: 2007 – 2009
Photographs: Logon Architecture
The Qingpu Wetlands / logon architecture
German-based logon architecture shared with us their project The Qingpu Wetlands, an urban landscape proposal in Qingpu, one of the industrial districts of Shanghai. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Haiku Sushi / Imagine Native
Architects: Imagine Native Ltd.
Location: International Finance Center, Shanghai, China
Client: Haiku Restaurant Group
Project area: 320 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Kingkay Architectural Photography
Shanghai Expo 2010 Draws to a Close
Sadly, Shanghai’s Expo 2010 ended yesterday after 184 exciting days. Throughout the course of the exhibition, over 73 million people experienced great pavilions from countries across the world and we’ve brought you coverage of projects ranging from videos to project descriptions to photographs. In these past months, we’ve shared a few of our reader Seppe’s videos with you (check out his German Pavilion, UK Pavilion, and Denmark Pavilion clips, previously featured on AD) and today we’re sharing his latest bit on the Swiss Pavilion.
The Expo, which opened on May 1st, allowed visitors to experience a taste of different cultures all arranged within the Expo’s 5.28-square-kilometer site. From the beginning, the Expo was a hit. Thousands flocked to the site on a daily basis, with the largest daily attendance hitting more than 1.03 million visitors on October 16th – breaking the record attendance set at the Osaka Expo back in 1970 for 844,000 on a single day. As Yang Jian reported for the Expo, “Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan said the Expo has made China and the world come closer together, and that a more open, inclusive and culturally advanced China that steadily moves forward will join other countries to usher in an ever brighter future for all.”
Only five structures will remain (the China Pavilion, the Culture Center, the Expo Center, the Theme Pavilions and Expo Boulevard) and with all the dazzling lights, amazing forms, and elaborate material skins dismantled, the site will now become a cultural, business and commercial center.
