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Architects: People's Architecture Office
- Year: 2015
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Courtyard House Plugin en Masse – Second Phase / People's Architecture Office
LCD's VULCAN Awarded Guinness World Record for Largest 3D Printed Structure
Guinness World Records has awarded the title of "largest 3D printed structure" to VULCAN, a temporary pavilion designed by the Beijing-based Laboratory for Creative Design (LCD). Made up of 1023 individually printed segments, the structure was 9.08 meters long and 2.88 meters tall, and took 30 days to print and a further 12 days to assemble. The pavilion was on display earlier this month at Beijing Design Week, located in Beijing's Parkview Green retail center.
Janzi Box / CLOU
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Architects: CLOU architects
- Year: 2015
Cha’er 3 / reMIX Studio
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Architects: reMIX studio
- Area: 240 m²
- Year: 2015
Micro-Yuan’er / ZAO/standardarchitecture
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Architects: ZAO/standardarchitecture
- Area: 17 m²
- Year: 2013
Lettuce House / HE Ding, WANG Wei, KONG Lingchen
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Architects: HE Ding, WANG Wei, KONG Lingchen
- Area: 88 m²
- Year: 2014
'Importance of Walking' Store / Praxis d’Architecture
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Architects: Praxis d’Architecture
- Area: 13 m²
- Year: 2014
Jingyuan No.22 Transformation / C+ Architects
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Architects: C+ Architects
- Area: 600 m²
- Year: 2015
Penda Continues to Push Bamboo with Rising Canes at Beijing Design Week
Text description provided by the architects. Following up a year of development, Penda has unveiled their installation for Beijing Design Week (BJDW) 2015 – Rising Canes, a structural system made entirely of bamboo and ropes. Meant to be a speculation system for larger developments, the installation is fully modular, ecological and easy to expand in every direction. Bamboo was chosen as the main construction material for its long traditional roots in China and fantastic structural capability, as well as part of a desire to fight its current obscurity as a construction material.
Zaha Hadid's Wangjing SOHO Wins Emporis Skyscraper Award
Zaha Hadid Architects' Wangjing SOHO in Beijing has won the 2014 Emporis Skyscraper Award. Chosen by an international panel of experts from more than 300 skyscrapers, the three-tower 200-meter-tall development is the first skyscraper in China to ever win the award. The judges were impressed by its "excellent energy efficiency and its distinctive design, which gives the complex a harmonious and organic momentum."
Each year, the Emporis Award honors the world's best new building over 100-meters-tall. Read on to see the top 10 buildings honored this year.
Guanghualu SOHO 2 / gmp Architects
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Architects: gmp Architects
- Area: 103000 m²
- Year: 2015
Dashilar: Housing In-between
Dashilar: Housing In-between is a collaborative forum and exhibition event organized by Studio X and Dashilar Platform for Beijing International Design Week 2015. Curated by Jeffrey Johnson (Studio X Beijing), Yijing Xu and Neill Mclean Gaddes (SANS, Dashilar Platform) with support from Columbia University GSAPP, Dashilar Platform and Beijing International Design Week.
‘Housing’ is a basic human necessity and has always been a critical subject of discussion around the world. With growing awareness of the gross inequalities created by neoliberal economies, significant attention has been placed recently on the housing conditions of those less privileged and marginalized.
Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Center of China / anySCALE
Transportation Office / CAA / CAA
Rong Bao Zhai Coffee Bookstore / ARCHSTUDIO
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Architects: ARCHSTUDIO
- Area: 293 m²
- Year: 2015
Crossboundaries' New Office / Crossboundaries
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Architects: Crossboundaries
- Area: 1500 m²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Crossboundaries Architects
Video: Steven Holl Discusses Beijing's Linked Hybrid, 7 Years After Completion
A community of 750 units interconnected on, below and above ground, Steven Holl Architects "Linked Hybrid" was an intentional shift away from the monolithic, monofuctional skyscraper. The entire complex was designed to be a "three-dimensional urban space" that encouraged chance encounters beyond the ground floor.
In this video architect Steven Holl talks about the building's design and how it has performed, seven years after the building's completion.
Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum / Studio Zhu-Pei
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Architects: Studio Zhu-Pei
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: GCAM