Changsha

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• Architects

  FAR OFFICE

• Location

  Lao Dong Zhong Lu, Yuhua Qu, Changsha Shi, Hunan Sheng, China

• Architect in Charge

  Giovanni Ferrara

• Design Team

  Victor Cao, Xin Hong, Si Song

• Area

  172.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Feilin Wang

SkyCity is pleased to invite architects, designers, artists, engineers, scientists, conservationists, ambient warriors, tribesmen, digital nomads, craftsmen or basically anyone with great ideas from around the globe to take part in SkyCity Challenge 17. Our climate is changing, squalor, nationalism, and inequality are rising, people are constantly moving into cities and the demand for a better and more sustainable living in urban areas continues to grow. The current ways are very limited and outdated and with the modern technology available we are able to create far better and more sophisticated spaces that could affect the very way of our living in the future …

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• Architects

  Cao Pu

• Location

  1703 Firework Mansion, No.605 Furong Mid Road, Changsha,China

• Project Planning

  Sun Shengqi, Xiong Yong, Zhao Xuru, Zou Rong

• Area

  60.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Zhang Zheming

AGA Architects have designed a new mixed-use development which is currently under construction in the Hong Xing district of Changsha, China. The project is set to become the first prototype of a combined leisure park and shopping mall in the country. A mix of retail, office, residential and hotel space is interspersed with "joyful" elements such as a sky walking corridor, 360-degree restaurant and a sky pool which overlooks the complex. Integrated landscape and a focus on sustainability transform the center into what the architects call a "green park mall."

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• Architects

  CaoPu studio

• Location

  Changsha, Hunan, China

• Client-Project planning

  “Reedom目田” Sun Shengqi, Xiong Yong, Zhao Xuru, Zou Rong

• Space designer

  Cao Pu

• Area

  60.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Zhang Zheming

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• Architects

  Lukstudio

• Location

  Changsha, Hunan, China

• Design Team

  Christina Luk, Alba Beroiz Blazquez, Cai Jin Hong, Pao Yee Lim

• Area

  50.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Peter Dixie for LOTAN Architectural Photography

“Three floors in a day is China’s new normal,” says a representative for this 57-floor skyscraper that was built in just 19 days. Known as the “Mini Sky City” tower in Changsha, the 180,000-square-meter mixed-use building was built in record speed with modular, “LEGO-like” blocks. The process also claimed to have required less materials and significantly reduced the amount of air pollution commonly caused by dusty construction sites.

A time-lapse of the construction process, after the break.

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• Architects

  Tsushima Design Studio

• Location

  Changsha, Hunan, China

• Client

  ChangSha Vanke Ltd.

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Masao Nishikawa

KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten International has been awarded first prize for their proposal of a new "urban helix" in Changsha, China, that extends public space from the city center into Lake Meixi. The concept serves as a catalyst, marking a termination point on a new street axis that culminates into a pedestrian ramp symbolically spiraling 30 meters above a 20,000 square meter artificial island.

NEXT architects has been awarded first prize in an international competition to design a pedestrian bridge for Meixi Lake in Changsha. Designed to be “more than just a connection,” the footbridge will serve as a key public space for a new lake district within the Dragon King Harbor River development. Recreational, ecological and touristic programs will be integrated into the 150 meter-long, 24 meter-high elevated parkway.

One of Coop Himmelb(l)au's latest competition winning designs is the Dawang Mountain Resort near Changsha, China, a combination of an entertainment ice world with an indoor ski slope, a water park and supporting restaurant and shopping facilities. Positioned directly on top of a historical cement mining quarry pit and lake, this proposal aims to combine "striking landscape with ambitious design" in a way that could redefine the idea and aesthetics of recreation for the south-central Chinese city.

Milan-based RRC Studio's latest undertaking, the Xiang River Tower, will be an office and residential project in Changsha, a city under heavy development in China. Located near the Xiang river in a prime area of the city’s downtown, the tower will dominate the city's horizon and bear a strong presence on the skyline.

Read on for the architects' description...

Coop Himmelb(l)au has come up with an incredibly unique design for the new Grand Theatre and International Culture & Art Center for Changsha, China. The site is located on the northeastern side of the newly created Changsha Meixi Lake in the Daheexi District, with the design engaging both land and water with a flowing and undulating white form of enormous scale. The architects hope to create a new cultural center that interacts with the existing natural landscape, not only visually, but scientifically by running on alternative energy sources and efficient passive energy systems to reduce environmental impact.

The architects' description after the break...

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• Architects

  AZL architects

• Location

  Changsha, Hunan, China

• Project Team

  Zhang Lei, Zhou Suning, Wang Liang

• Collaborator

  Architectural Design Institute, Hunan University

• Area

  3000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2010

• Photographs

  Yao Li