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Landmark Riverside Danzishi Old Street / LWK + PARTNERS

Landmark Riverside Danzishi Old Street / LWK + PARTNERS - Shopping Centers, Facade, Cityscape
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  • Architects: LWK + PARTNERS
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  54000
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018

Yunyang Sifangjing Service Building / Tanghua Architect & Associates

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Beipo Bridge Intervention / f.i.t

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Chengkou, China
  • Architects: f.i.t
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  19
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018

Eling Residences / Safdie Architects

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Chongqing, China

Zhongshan Road CoWorking Space / VARY DESIGN

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  • Interior Designers: VARY DESIGN
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  650
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    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

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  • Architects: B.l.U.E. Architecture Studio: B.L.U.E. Architecture Design Studio
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  500
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017

Hundun University Education Center / VARY DESIGN

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Yuzhong Qu, China
  • Interior Designers: VARY DESIGN
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  520
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    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”

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Exterior Visualisation. Image Courtesy of CapitaLand

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.

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71sqm. Apartment Renovation / Xue Jin Architecture Network

71sqm. Apartment Renovation / Xue Jin Architecture Network - Apartment Interiors, Kitchen, Beam, Facade, Countertop, Sink
Entrance view. Image © Chuan Bai

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  • Interior Designers: Xue Jin Architecture Network
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  71
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  OPLV 澳普利发

Chongqing Tiandi Art Museum / Shenzhen Huahui Design

Chongqing Tiandi Art Museum / Shenzhen Huahui Design - Cultural Interiors, Facade
Night view. Image © Zhi Xia

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Chongqing Sunac One Central Mansion Sales Pavillion / AOE

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  • Architects: AOE
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2000
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Chongbo Energy Conservation Glass, ShanghaiJoYa Wire Mesh

Extreme Cities: The Densest, Coldest, Remotest, Most Visited (etc) Human Settlements on Earth

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Hong Kong Khush N licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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

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Bishan Qu, China

Anti-Domino No. 02 – Wood Mountain / Daipu Architects

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  • Architects: Daipu Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  120
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    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.

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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.”

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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.

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