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Beyond Red: Architecture With Gray and Black Bricks

Eduardo Souza — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Pink Floyd's song “Another brick in the wall” criticizes an alienating and demotivating educational system. People, or children, are portrayed as bricks due to their homogeneity, whether in the way of living or thinking in a society that is not very fond of opposition. Bricks work very well in this comparison, having changed very little throughout history and around the world in their rectangular shapes. But that's not true of their colors. Although we tend to think of red when we talk about bricks, there are infinite possibilities of shades, depending on the composition and manufacturing process of the pieces.

White Crane Lake Visitor Center / Archperience

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Located adjacent to Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province, White Crane Lake covers an area of 10 square kilometers. The Visitor Center is the centerpiece of a comprehensive development initiative for White Crane Lake. The challenge for the designers was placing a stylistically modern cultural building aimed at increasing tourism, in a natural environment defined by its quiet ambiance. The project had a multitude of functional requirements to fulfill while balancing the need to elegantly coexist with a landscape of forests, mountains, and the lake itself.

Transcending Cultural Boundaries: 10 Contemporary Art Museums in China

Scarlett Miao — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:30:00 +0000

Ever since the period of the Renaissance in Europe, the indivisible relationship between art and architecture has long been heatedly discussed and vividly reflected in numerous classical books and buildings. With the deep connection that unites art and architecture together, designers, artists, and architects have been actively collaborating and came up with solutions on how we can house and exhibit art in the form of changing spaces.

WenZhou Yongning Academy / AAI.LifeWay studio

Yu Xin Li — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This old building in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties has been in disrepair for a long time. The mottled bricks and broken walls show its old age. Due to the function and actual protection needs, the condition that the old building must be placed at the second-floor height undoubtedly increases the difficulty of design and implementation. However, the designers gave a satisfactory answer: they completed the crossing of several hundred years in the new and old space, carried the space theme of “let Wenzhou return to Wenzhou”, and make the old buildings knowable, perceptible and usable. This is the place spirit conveyed by Yongning Academy.

Longyan Cloud Art Gallery / AAI.LifeWay studio

Collin Chen — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 06:00:00 +0000

The project is located on the south side of Longyan Zijinshan Sports Park next to Ziyu Lake, the west side is adjacent to the flower sea and golf course. The north side is surrounded by mountains. From the demonstration area to the west, you can overlook the side of the flower sea. To the south, you can enjoy the lake view. To the north, you can look out over the mountains. The landscape resources are excellent.

Jinlin Royal Park / Do Design Group

罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Nanjing enjoys a special status in Chinese traditional culture, as it is the “capital of the six dynasties” in history. Therefore, we must think carefully about how to make use of its rich cultural heritage and give new value of modern culture to the project and the city.

Poly Greenland Plaza / gmp Architects

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 03:00:00 +0000

The Poly Greenland Plaza office complex, built to a design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), has been selected for the Award of Excellence of the 2020 CTBUH Awards in the Urban Habitat–District/Master Plan category, which qualifies it as a finalist in the Overall Category. The ensemble of office towers and commercial buildings forms a unique address in the city environment. A generous sequence of plazas and an open shopping arcade create diverse urban qualities that link the complex with its surroundings.

Hefei North City Central Park Primary And Middle School / Shanghai Tianhua Architecture Planning & Engineering

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Hefei Vanke wants to create a comprehensive community of “School Community and Park Life” in Beicheng New District, this project is one of the most important parts. Primary and secondary schools play a role in linking all the plots in the core of this nearly 4 million-scale residential area. We are trying to create more interactive places between schools and communities to break the definition of traditional boundaries.

Rsun Sales Center / BENJAI Architectural Design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 20:00:00 +0000

The project is located in a high-quality development area in Changsha City. It is close to the main traffic roads of the city, and is also one of the main entrances of the community in the future. Both of the architectural design and the interior design come from Benjai Architecture.

Xi Xi Yi Hao Building / M.A.O.

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:00:00 +0000

West Lake is a visiting card-level scenic spot in Hangzhou. If the West Lake carries too many people's yearning for and sustenance for Hangzhou, the Xixi Wetland is only a back garden. It has almost reached the realm of seclusion of "the higher level of reclusive life is reclusion in the city" after getting rid of the bustling and noisy of the secular world.

Tian'an Cloud Park (Phase I) / M.A.O.

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Tian'an Cloud Park, with a total investment of over 30 billion yuan, is a "world-class intellectualized industrial complex" built by Tian'an Junye Group, which integrates science, technology, commerce, life, culture and education, and a new industry which is committed to developing the new generation of information technology, such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, etc.

Lianzhong MODO City Sales Center / JHD Architects

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 23:00:00 +0000

The site is in the middle of Maqiao Qizhong Plate in Shanghai, where holds up a qualified living environment.The site is located at East side of the Yaque River, which is connected to Zhongxiu Road with a modern landscape bridge. The demonstration district references the idea of the middle axis symmetry and harmony of Chinese traditional architectural theory—the axis runs through the central landscape of the sales office and the two plots (A plot and B plot).

Metropolis Light Exhibition Center / PTArchitects

Collin Chen — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

As a demonstration area of “Gemdale·Metropolis Light”, the project is located in the northwest corner of the plot. In the earlier stage, it will serve as the sales exhibition center for the whole community, and later turned into an integrated commercial square, becoming the community’s neighborhood center of daily life.

Nanjing Times Mansion Metropolitan Aesthetic Center / Nanjing Tianhua

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 02:00:00 +0000

As Louis Kahn said: “All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.” We use the light as the director, shadow as the protagonist, and space narrative to guide people to experience individuality and unique light & shadow space.

Hangzhou Dowell · Life Style Center / Shanghai Tianhua Architecture Planning & Engineering

罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Dowell Future Impression is located in the west of Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park, facing Wuchang Wetland Park while sitting mountains.

First Sight Bookstore of Pingjiang Wonder / Shanghai Tianhua Architectural Design

Collin Chen — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:00:00 +0000

THE NEGATION OF NEGATION
According to the law of “the negation of negation” in Hegel’s Science of Logic, the result of self-sublation is never nothing, but is characterized by new contents and forms. Such dialectic speculation forms the basic design logic for this building.

Kunshan Grand Theater / China Architecture Design Group Land-based Rationalism D.R.C

舒岳康 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:00:00 +0000

The new Kunshan Grand Theater is situated in the civic square in central Kunshan, a site bordering Qianjin Middle Road on the north and Zhujiang North Road on the east. As a reconstruction project of the former Kunshan Theater, it has become an integral part of a cultural complex, together with a library on the west, a swimming center on the south and a sports park on the southwest.

Zhengzhou Twin Towers / gmp Architects

Laurene Cen — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, is experiencing ongoing growth. According to current estimates, the metropolis on the Yellow River will have over 11 million inhabitants by 2020. In order to prepare for this development, a new railway station has been built in recent years to the east of the city to create a central traffic interchange.