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Café Parallel / TEMP

October 11, 2018

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Architects: TEMP
Area: 40 m²
Year: 2018

MARS Case / OPEN Architecture

October 09, 2018

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Architects: OPEN Architecture
Year: 2018
Professionals: Ruiguang Boying Lighting Laboratory, Hongri Lighting Group

Concrete Vessel / Atelier FCJZ

October 09, 2018

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Architects: Atelier FCJZ
Area: 184 m²
Year: 2018
Professionals: Original Ecology Landscape Co.Ltd.

This Week in Architecture: Visions from the Future

Subscriber Access | October 05, 2018

Life in Space

China's Mega Industrial Regeneration Project has Lessons for the World

Subscriber Access | October 05, 2018

Across the world, developed cities are rebelling against heavy industry. While some reasons vary depending on local circumstances, a common global drive towards clean energy, and the shifting of developed economies towards financial services, automation, and the gig economy, is leaving a common trace within urban centers. From Beijing to Detroit, vast wastelands of steel and concrete will stand as empty relics to the age of steel and coal.

The question of what to do with these wastelands, with defunct furnaces, railways, chimneys, and lakes, may be one of the major urban questions facing generations of architects to come. What can be done when the impracticality of industrial complexes, and the precious land they needlessly occupy, collides with the embodied energy, memories, and histories which few would wish to lose?

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10 Futuristic Homes Unveiled at the 2018 House Vision China Exhibition

October 04, 2018

House Vision China 2018 has opened with 10 futuristic residential designs by architects like Penda, Open Architecture and MAD. Located outside the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing's Olympic Park, House Vision is a cultural research project initiated with the concept of “new life in the future”. Together with architects and enterprises, the exhibition aims to build cultural research around the future home at a 1:1 ratio. House Vision features a range of home designs, from a shelter for life on Mars to a Living Garden.

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OPEN Architecture and Xiaomi Unveil MARS Case Housing Prototype at China House Vision 2018

October 04, 2018

OPEN Architecture in collaboration with Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi have unveiled the minimal housing prototype MARS Case at China House Vision 2018. Located outside the Bird’s Nest National Stadium in Beijing, the design is part of an annual cross-industry innovation and research platform known as House Vision, which uses the medium of the “house” to explore and question the direction of our living habits and urban environments in the future.

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