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Suzhou SND “Taihu Cloud Valley” Digital Industrial Park / 9-Town Design Studio for Urban Architecture

Valeria Silva — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The "Taihu Cloud Valley" Digital Industrial Park is located in the Science and Technology City of Suzhou SND, and the project is divided into two phases, and the first phase of the project on the west side of the Fuchun River Road has been completed, with a total construction area of about 490,000 square meters. In the design of "Taihu Cloud Valley" Digital Industrial Park, the correspondence between the use function and the space layout is not a one-to-one correspondence between the specific function and the specific space, but only a kind of correspondence on the logic of thinking, which is to face the "uncertainty" with the "uncertainty". When the function can not be confirmed, and will be changed at any time, the space can only be faced in a flexible way, facing uncertainty with uncertainty, in order to preset unlimited possibilities in the limited space.

School Architecture: 70 Examples in Plan and Section

María Francisca González — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 07:30:00 +0000

For architects, schools are often complex structures to design. They must provide a variety of spaces for education, and also consider sports and recreational activities. But beyond its size or surface, the greatest challenge is to design an area that fosters a positive pedagogical environment for children. Below, a selection of +70 school projects with their drawings to inspire your proposals for learning campuses.

Hangzhou DEEP BLUE Office Building / GLA Design

Collin Chen — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Deep Blue, as a new incubator office building, is located in the Zijingang Science and Technology City of Hangzhou Chengxi Sci-tech Innovation Corridor. The designer takes the user needs as the driving force, combines the site environment, and sends invitations to people with the minimalist space design language: this is not only a pure office space but also an open, inclusive and diversified cultural place, which bears multiple possibilities such as social interaction, entertainment, life, and learning.

Haimen Yungu Agricultural Exhibition Hall / gad

Collin Chen — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, Haimen is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the East and the Yangtze River in the south, facing Shanghai across the river. Its name came from the "The Sea and River Gateway". Haimen is the hinterland of Wu Yue culture and the hometown of Chinese rice culture. Haimen Yungu Agricultural Exhibition Hall is located here. Like a large number of investors and architects who have poured into the countryside in recent years, the design team of this project is also faced with the historical choice of returning to the native land or making innovation.

Ruralation Museum Hotel / AZL Architects

Collin Chen — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

History of Earth and Human
Tangshan is located at the eastern foot of Zijin Mountain in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing, where the skull of "Nanjing ape man" dating back to about 600,000 years was found here in the early 1990s. Tangshan Fangshan National Geological Park is a national geological park with the themes of Tangshan Ape-man Cave, geological section, hot spring and Neogene Volcano. As a supporting project of Nanjing Homo Erectus Relic Museum, Ruralation Museum Hotel is located in Tangshan Homo Erectus Relic Park. The site is chosen at an abandoned quarry site on the southwest side of Nanjing Homo Erectus Relic Museum. In recent years, the mountains around the site have undergone ecological restoration and risk elimination by removing pumice, protecting with nets and other measures, and the exposed precipice have become the natural barrier and the rough background of the building.

“In The 1990s, We All Became Free”: In Conversation with Jiakun Liu of Jiakun Architects

Vladimir Belogolovsky — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Jiakun Liu was born in 1956 in Chengdu, China. Architecture was not his first choice to pursue at school, as he originally wanted to be an artist. He heard that architecture had something to do with drawing, so he applied to Chongqing Institute of Architecture and Engineering, not fully understanding what his role as an architect would be. After his graduation in 1982, Liu worked at the Chengdu Architectural Design Academy for two years, the experience he did not enjoy. So, he set out on a self-searching journey that lasted for over a decade, spending time in Tibet and Xinjiang in West China where he practiced meditation, painting, and writing, producing several works of fiction, while officially working at the Literature Academy as a writer.

Shitang Village Internet Conference Center / AZL Architects

Valentina Villa — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:00:00 +0000

The trend of modernization and urbanization in rural development inevitably requires the introduction of new types of functions. As multi-functional buildings with large space, the Internet conference center is one of them. Taking the commune auditorium and the vegetable greenhouse as the original form, Shitang Village Project in Jiangning tries to reconstruct public buildings in a rural context. Efforts have been made to rapidly build a system through industrialization, bringing in the technology of pre-fabricated super slender column structure, selectively applying suitable technology to eliminate the existence of weakened and materialized buildings and restoring the primitive feeling of rural villages, hence having conducted a rejuvenated construction practice in an extremely short construction period of time in rural villages.

Wencheng Forest Oxygen Bar Town Parlor / GLA Design

Collin Chen — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Surrounded by mountains, a large roof, more than 100 meters long and more than 30 meters wide, lies on one side of the mountain, leaning on a hillside about 300 meters high, and facing the west and the provincial road. In the settlement villages on the other side of the mountain, the residential houses lean against the mountain, and the eaves are cascaded. This is Xikeng Town, Wencheng County. As one of the four ethnic towns in Zhejiang, it has strong customs of She people. This large roof is Wencheng Forest Oxygen Bar Town Parlor.

The World's Most Influential Events and Awarded Architecture in 2019

Nicolás Valencia — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 07:35:00 +0000

2019 has been a very fruitful year in architecture, unveiling projects, discourses, and careers that cover most of the multiple layers, interest, and fields related to this discipline, and highlighting how relevant it has become to our societies —from the Pritzker Prize 2019 awarded to Japanese architect Arata Isozaki to the revealed theme of the Venice Biennale 2020. Take a look at the main architectural milestones of this year across the globe.

China Museum Of The South China Sea / Architectural Design Research Institute of SCUT

Collin Chen — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:00:00 +0000

There is a millennium fishing port i.e. Tanmen on the coast of the South China Sea in Qionghai, Hainan, China, where the fishermen have been guarding their mother sea for generations. Nowadays, between the seaport and fishing villages, among the villages and rivers, there is a magic temple called by the fishermen, which ushered in a meeting that spans hundreds of years.

Yan’an Baota Mountain Tourist Centre / THAD

Collin Chen — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Baota Mountain is the symbol of Yan'an, it is also Yan'an's most prominent tourist attraction. The Baota Mountain was built in the Tang Dynasty; it is an important historical and cultural heritage in China. The essence and the status of Baota Mountain is manifested in the saying "Yan'an Baota is the spiritual symbol of the Chinese Revolution." Today, it is our duty to protect, inherit, and carry forward the identity of the Chinese Revolution.

The Swan Science Museum / Rurban Studio

Collin Chen — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 01:00:00 +0000

Text description is based on multiple interviews of the architect, LI Li, with Weiling He.

The New Campus of Yan’an University / THAD

Collin Chen — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 22:00:00 +0000

In the old revolutionary district of Yan'an, designing a new campus for a university with a profound history and cultural heritage is a challenging proposition. The design needs to connect the past with the future, and let the history glow with the charm of the new era.

Shijiazhuang International Convention & Exhibition Center / THAD

Collin Chen — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Shijiazhuang International Convention & Exhibition Center in Zhengding New District of Shijiazhuang city covers an area of 64.4 hectares and a floor space of 359,000 m², including 229,000 m² above ground. All areas for conventions and exhibitions extend along the hub in the shape of the fishbone. The multi-elevation pedestrian system facilitates the diversion of people, vehicles and goods. The exhibition area incorporates seven standard exhibition halls covering an area of 11,000 m² each and one large multi-purpose exhibition hall of 26,000 m². Boasting a floor space of 110,000 m², the exhibition area has been the world’s largest exhibition hall featuring the cable-suspended structure.

Hunan University Tianma New Campus Complex / WCY Regional Studio

Collin Chen — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The project Tianma new Campus of Hunan University is located in the Yuelu Mountain University Research Park with a site area of 18.96h㎡. The building sits in between Tianma Mountain and Yuelu Mountain on its east and west, borders the old campus to the north and Tianma student apartment to the south, where the wild nature and social activities co-exists. The new campus masterplan, a complementary extension to the old campus, was launched in 2003 and completed in 2016 after twist and turns.

Song House / AZL Architects

Collin Chen — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:00:00 +0000

The past 40 years of rapid urbanization in China witnessed the hollowing-out evolution in the disappearance of millions of natural villages. As ecological protector, cultural heritage, and a highly livable environment, rural settlements have been underestimated and neglected in its resourcefulness and values. The natural humanistic values of rural settlements need to be reactivated through new production cycle and lifestyle. Shanghai, having the highest GDP in China and being a world-famous metropolis, is also facing difficulties and conflicts between its urban and suburban composition. Those living in the city are constantly under the pressure of high living costs, when the declining of rural communities and human settlements in suburbs is happening at the same time.

Tibet Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum / Shenzhen Huahui Design

韩双羽 — Sun, 12 May 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Jointly funded by the Shenzhen Municipal Government and Vanke Group, the Tibet Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum is constructed by Vanke as Shenzhen’s key project in support of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

FUTURE STITCH Smart Factory / AZL Architects

韩双羽 - HAN Shuangyu — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:00:00 +0000

STANCE, an American sports fashion brand, is featured for its brand declaration of The Uncommon Thread, aiming to make socks, the most common items in people’s daily life, excelsior. STANCE’s Punk & Poets culture attracts a large number of sports stars and leaders in the fashion industry, and its major partners include NBA, MLB (American Major League Baseball), NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) and Disney.