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Kunshan Olympic Sports Center / gmp Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

With the opening match of the Chinese FA Super Cup, the new Football Stadium in Kunshan was officially inaugurated on February 7. More than 30,000 fans gathered for the local derby between Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai Port. In a thrilling finale, Shanghai Shenhua secured victory with two goals in the last three minutes, successfully defending their Super Cup title — bringing the first major soccer event in the new arena to a fitting conclusion. The stadium, named Kunshan Olympic Sports Center, was designed by the architects von Gerkan, Marg, and Partners (gmp) in collaboration with the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tongji University. With a capacity of 45,000 seats, the arena meets FIFA Category 1 standards as a very large professional football venue, making it suitable for major international competitions.

Reconstruction Design of Wujiaqiao Villager's Home / FANAF + Jiangsu Institute of Urban&Rural Planning and Design

Collin Chen — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The project is located in Wuqiao village, Qiandeng, Kunshan. The original site is the supply and Marketing Cooperative of Wuqiao village. As a cooperative of the means of production department near the ferry terminal on the East River bank, it is a necessary place for North-South ship trade. Until the beginning of reform and opening up, it witnessed the prosperity of the riverside. Under the tide of new rural construction, the architectural scale of traditional villages has undergone subversive changes, most of which are overturned and rebuilt, breaking the texture of the original traditional villages in the south of the Yangtze River, and also breaking up and reorganizing the production and life of the villagers. The design team hopes to maintain the original scale of the building, resolve the gap between the new and the old after the reconstruction of the original site through the restoration of the order of the public space and the continuation of the historical texture, and rebuild the local cultural memory.

Perkins&Will Reveals Design of Duke Kunshan University Campus's Second Phase in China

Dima Stouhi — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 06:30:00 +0000

Perkins&Will has revealed the designs of the second phase of Duke Kunshan University which reflect the natural context and local culture of Kunshan, China. The architecture blends nature and architecture, and highlights the university's ethos and education values through spaces dedicated for living and learning. The 189,334 sqm master plan includes 22 buildings of administration, educational, and recreational facilities.

Kunshan Constitution Park / IPD

Collin Chen — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Constitution Park is located in the cultural centre of downtown Kunshan, home to the metropolitan government buildings and plaza as well as the science museum and city park. The park is designed to offer a spatial experience of the history and spirit of the Chinese constitution and its relevance to Kunshan and its citizens. Our task was to retrofit an existing park to take on new cultural and imaginative significance in the city.

Chenfeng Group Fashion Hub Factory Renovation / Joseph Dejardin

Collin Chen — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Joseph Dejardin completes the renovation of a 12000sqm former factory building at Chenfeng Group’s Kunshan campus near Shanghai, South China. The design transforms garment production workshops & administrative offices into contemporary fashion studios and flexible office space. As one of China’s largest textile & garment manufacturing companies, the conversion project is part of the studios’s ambitious redevelopment masterplan to transform the factory site into a creative hub for nurturing fashion design in China.

Kunshan New Life Hub / BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists

Collin Chen — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 19:00:00 +0000

Microcosm
In an attempt to counter the tendencies towards segregation of programs and land-use in current Chinese planning, BAU added a diversity of opportunities for work, housing, recreation and public facilities to the original brief for a shopping centre with restaurants. Consequently, small office/home office (SOHO) accommodation, sports facilities and a community multi-purpose hall have been added to the original brief for retail and restaurants. In short the shopping centre has become a microcosm of the city.

Kunshan Government Affairs Service Centre / SDTD

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Kunshan Government Affairs Service Centre consists of four towers and a podium, with a total area of 102,000 sqm. It accommodates over 20 municipal offices and provides a whole range of one-stop services including livelihood, social insurance, taxation, public security, border entry, public resource exchange, investment and development, market-entry, general administration, and etc.

The Renovation of JiJiaDun Village Center / Yzscape

Collin Chen — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Confliction Between the Temperament of Original Bases
Built in the 1990s, the village committee building has a double-slope roof and two story reinforced concrete frame structures. On the east side there is a public toilet that was added later. The ridge is ten meters above the ground and is the tallest building in the entire village. The village committee building before the renovation, like most government buildings, has a compact layout and a plain appearance. Although traditional roof tile is used on the roof, the shape of the boxy square is quite different from the Jiangnan Water Village. in particular, the building is surrounded by eight-meter-high walls. There are areas inside and outside the building that go straight up and down. There is not a positive space for people to sit down. Ironically, as the only public building in the village, it created no public space. The spatial power relations of the village committee building are simple and clear. The majestic and tall buildings make people standing in front of them seem insignificant.

Kunshan Financial Street Phase I Complex / FTA Group GmbH

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Kunshan is adjacent to Shanghai and only 60 kilometers from the center of Shanghai. It is the closest satellite city to Shanghai.This vibrant city will play an important role in the integration of the Yangtze River Delta and the construction of the Shanghai metropolitan area.

The School of Kunqu Opera in West Creek Village / China Architecture Design Group Land-based Rationalism D.R.C

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 02:00:00 +0000

West Creek Village is located between urban and rural areas of Kunshan city, as well as between the Yangcheng Lake and the Doll Lake, where the Kunqu Opera and Yu Mountain Culture start 600 years ago. However, with the rapid development of urbanization, the rural areas begin to disappear and a new culture park without any villages left is planned.

Zhujiadian B&B School / Land-Based Rationalism D-R-C

罗靖琳 — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000

This project is a B&B, also a school to teach how to build a B&B. These new buildings locate in front of the Zhujiadian Brick Kiln Museum. A branch of Changbai Late lays between the B&B and the museum, where the bricks can be shipped to anywhere along the water.

Zhujiadian Brick Kiln Museum / Land-Based Rationalism D-R-C

罗靖琳 — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Zhujiadian Village in Jinxi, located in South of Kunshan city, was named Chen Grave in old days, which was the place of production of Gold Bricks for Forbidden City with Lu Grave in Suzhou. There is an unforgettable history of the artisans and the bricks in the small village. Zhujiadian looks like a lotus leaf floating on Changbai Lake, and more than ten old kilns on the east of the village. Qian Siyuan, a poet in Qing dynasty, composed “Kilns are a noble scene as a great number of fish scales shining, which always be there years and years.”

Brick Kiln Folk Inn & Museum - Interior Design / H DESIGN

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Jiangnan of China, has enjoyed the”earthly paradise”reputation since ancient times of its staggered rivers and lakes, vertical and horizontal waterways, small bridges and tasteful towns. A typical canal town named Jin Xi, located in the picturesque scenery of Jiangnan, known as "the hometown of Chinese folk museum" with two thousand years of history.There is an old saying here before "thirty-six bridges must have seventy-two kilns." Lots of kilns were produced golden bricks in the past, and the brick kiln culture is so profound and indispensable for the town.

New XIUYI Kindergarten Proposal / Studio 7 of Urban Architecture China

Alison Furuto — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Designed by Studio 7 of Urban Architecture China, their proposal for the New XIUYI Kindergarten in Kunshan, China aims to strongly connect to the layout of the traditional village. They do this by spreading 30 classrooms into nine buildings and forming a relatively independent settlement type of a space. The organic arrangement creates both interesting private play areas and diversified public spaces, at a scale appropriate for children. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Sichang Road Teahouse / Miao Design Studio

Gracia Vera — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

This project tries to address a mega problem at a micro scale — the increasing isolation of chinese urban resisdents from nature. Kunshan is in the Yangtze River delta region, a flat land with lots of rainfall. Towns in the region historically developed a unique landscape of crisscross canals and numerous ponds. Traditional buildings were next to or even cantilevered over the canals. Unfortunately, the rapid urban expansion and renewal of the past three decades have not only made cities bigger, but also transformed such intricate urban water areas into six-lane streets and dense towers. Even though developers created some fountains in their projects, these features tend to be of dead water. Various regulations further keep people and buildings from any intimate contact with remaining rivers and lakes. As a result, today’s urban children often forget the feeling of natural water, along with earthworms and crickets, which are part of the symptoms of apathy towards nature in Chinese high-density cities.

Riverside Park Pavilion / Vector Architects

Sebastian Jordana — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Located in the riverside park along a busy street in the old town area of Kunshan, this project includes a refreshment station, public toilets, and a leisure pavilion. These program spaces are assembled as a compound that is an intermixing zone for diverse activities within a small area in the park.

Harvest Pavilion / Vector Architects

Victoria King — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Sited in an Eco-farm alongside the Yang Cheng Lake, Kunshan the project consists of 4 small scale public buildings: a club house, a harvest pavilion, a botanical showroom, and an information center. In the spring of 2012, the harvest pavilion became the first one being completed. The farm is vast, flat, and wide open to sky. Different from the congested vertical massing image of urban life, such an empty flatness of the site is an essential nature that we believe the architecture should respond to.