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Architects: LWK + PARTNERS
- Area: 54000 m²
- Year: 2018
Chongqing: The Latest Architecture and News
Landmark Riverside Danzishi Old Street / LWK + PARTNERS
Yunyang Sifangjing Service Building / Tanghua Architect & Associates
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Architects: Tanghua Architect & Associates
- Area: 8012 m²
- Year: 2018
Eling Residences / Safdie Architects
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Architects: Safdie Architects
- Area: 460000 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Professionals: BPI, FuturePolis and Change Studio
Zhongshan Road CoWorking Space / VARY DESIGN
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Interior Designers: VARY DESIGN
- Area: 650 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Chongqing Iron and Steel Company, Linye Floors, Nanhai, Nippon Paint, Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd.
Chongqing Awe-inspiring Bar / B.L.U.E. Architecture Design Studio
Hundun University Education Center / VARY DESIGN
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Interior Designers: VARY DESIGN
- Area: 520 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Chongqing Iron and Steel Company, Mingda Glass Chengdu Glass, Nanhai, Nippon Paint
Moshe Safdie’s Chongqing Project Sets World Record With Highest “Horizontal Skyscraper”
Currently under construction in Chongqing, China, Moshe Safdie's Raffles City Chongqing features an extraordinary engineering feat of erecting a 300 meter long “horizontal skyscraper” above four 250 meter high towers. An extensive urban district set at the meeting point between the Yangtze and Jialing rivers once constructed Raffles City Chongqing will hold the world record of the highest sky bridge linking the towers.
71sqm. Apartment Renovation / Xue Jin Architecture Network
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Interior Designers: Xue Jin Architecture Network
- Area: 71 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: OPLV 澳普利发
Chongqing Tiandi Art Museum / Shenzhen Huahui Design
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Architects: Shenzhen Huahui Design
- Area: 1600 m²
- Year: 2017
Chongqing Sunac One Central Mansion Sales Pavillion / AOE
Extreme Cities: The Densest, Coldest, Remotest, Most Visited (etc) Human Settlements on Earth
Humans are adaptable animals; we have evolved to adjust to, and survive in, many difficult and extreme conditions. In some cases, these extremes are natural, while in other modern cities extreme living situations are created by us, and we are forced to accept and adjust. Here is a list of extreme settlement conditions: some challenging, some wonderful and all of them offering a fascinating insight into how we occupy the planet in 2017.
Bishan Cultural and Art Center / TANGHUA ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES
- Area: 37736 m²
- Year: 2016
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Professionals: Tanghua Architect & Associates
Anti-Domino No. 02 – Wood Mountain / Daipu Architects
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Architects: Daipu Architects
- Area: 120 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: De Vorm
The Results Are In: 2016 Is a Record-Breaking Year for Tall Buildings
In its annual report, the 2016 Tall Building Year in Review, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced that 2016 saw the completion of a record 128 buildings 200 meters or higher. This number surpasses the previous record of 114 completions set in 2015. Eighteen of these buildings became the tallest in their city, country, or region, and ten earned the designation of supertall, at 300 meters and above.
Google Timelapse Shows the Rapid Expansion of the World’s Cities over 32 Years
Google Earth has released an update to its Timelapse feature, giving viewers a better look at the rapid expansion of the world’s urban areas between 1984 and 2016.
Originally released in 2013 in partnership with TIME and NASA, the update adds in four more years of data, as well as petabytes of imagery data from two new satellites, Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2, to provide clearer views of new developments and the recent effects of climate change on our natural environments.
EID Wins Competition for Stacked Block Mixed-Use Development in Chongqing
China-based firm EID Architecture has been selected as the winner of a design competition for a mixed-use development, entitled Longfor Phase IV, in Chongqing, China. Designed as an exploration of vertical urbanism on a high-density scope, the project is composed of a “single tower and associated podium integrated as an assembled massing of stacked box-like volumes.”
With a Bookstore at its Core Aedas Unveils Mix-use Project Inspired by Rolled Book Scrolls
Aedas has unveiled the plans for its Chongqing Xinhua Bookstore Group Jiefangbei Book City mixed-use project, a complex of retail, residential, office, and hotel space with a Xinhua Bookstore at its core. Based on an ancient Chinese prose that states “knowledge brings wealth,” the project aims to integrate the concept of a book with the cultural elements of Chongqing to create an interactive commercial space.