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Leeza SOHO / Zaha Hadid Architects

韩爽 — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Located on Lize Road in southwest Beijing, Leeza SOHO tower anchors the new Fengtai business district - a growing financial and transport hub between the city centre and the recently opened Beijing Daxing International Airport to the south. The new business district is integral to Beijing’s multi-modal urban plan to accommodate growth without impacting existing infrastructure networks in the centre of the city.

People's Daily HQ / Architects and Engineers Associates of Southeast University

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:00:00 +0000

This building has been one of the most important constructions in Beijing since 2008 Olympic Game. Two reasons for this, one is that People’s Daily is the top official newspaper in china, and two due to its hot location in the heart of Beijing's CBD （commercial business center), about 8 kilometer east of the Forbidden City (ancient emperor palace, the symbol and core area of ancient China's capital), where there have been a few of internationally designed architectural works. We won the national competition in 2009 and began to construct in 2010, finished in 2015. We try to do something which will be a creative, contemporary and modern, but also reflect our culture and tradition. More important, this building has to be cost-constrains, use-effective and environment-friendly. As the whole design contracts, we finished the all design works, including architecture, engineering, landscape, and interior.

Harbin Opera House / MAD Architects

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:45:00 +0000

MAD Architects unveils the completed Harbin Opera House, located in the Northern Chinese city of Harbin. In 2010, MAD won the international open competition for Harbin Cultural Island, a master plan for an opera house, a cultural center, and the surrounding wetland landscape along Harbin’s Songhua River. The sinuous opera house is the focal point of the Cultural Island, occupying a building area of approximately 850,000 square feet of the site’s 444 acres total area. It features a grand theater that can host over 1,600 patrons and a smaller theater to accommodate an intimate audience of 400.