The concept of the new Shanghai Flower Garden Square by Real Time Architecture (RTA-Office) is a reinterpretation of a traditional Chinese home. Ten villas merge to form a series of sequential spaces, replacing the conventional building type of the single, stand-alone villa. The 45 square meter landscape, thus, finds its way throughout the units’ interiors, synchronizing interior and exterior user activities.
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Shanghai Flower Garden Square / Real Time Architecture
Under Armour / Marc Thorpe Design
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Architects: Marc Thorpe Design
- Year: 2013
Folding Red / Jike Zhicheng
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Architects: Jike Zhicheng
- Area: 320 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: Dalian Zhongji
Foster and Heatherwick Collaborate to Design Shanghai Finance Center
Foster + Partners has joined forces with Heatherwick Studio to design the new Bund Finance Centre (BFC) in the heart of historic Shanghai. The mixed-use, waterfront destination will serve as the “end point” to the city’s most famous street, as well as a prime connection between the old town, the Bund, and the new financial district.
Rok Oman, Principal of OFIS Architects, to Give "Architour" Lecture in Shanghai
As part of the CA Group's lecture series, "Architour," principal of OFIS architects, Rok Oman, will lecture on December 7th at the Tongji Architectural Design Co. in Shanghai. For 2013 through 2015, "Architour" has as its theme "New Force of Architecture - Leading Young Architects": each year, the CA Group will select nine young, global leaders in architecture (four from Asia and five from the West) to lecture on topics that cross typologies and disciplines, from architectural design, urban planning to interior design. Sou Fujimoto and Hirata Akihisa were the series' first speakers.
Glass office SOHO China / AIM Architecture
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Interior Designers: AIM Architecture: Wendy Saunders, Vincent de Graaf, German Roig, Carter Chen and Jiao Yan
- Year: 2013
Shanghai West Bund Biennial Pavilions / schmidt hammer lassen architects
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Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
- Area: 240 m²
Sky SOHO Leasing Showroom / GAP Architects
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Architects: GAP Architects
- Area: 350 m²
- Year: 2013
Camper Showroom / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Bubble Building / 3GATTI Architecture Studio
The Bubble Building, a "renovation of a common, old and unattractive building" in the centre of Shanghai, is a simple design containing complex environmental qualities. Unlike a conventional retrofit or renovation, 3GATTI's proposal places inflatables made of white antibacterial technical outdoor nylon, in front of the windows on the existing building. Their concept was to "create an icon-building, a kind of landmark very easy to recognize, a kind of sculpture with a strong character able to detach itself from the boring cityscape" with the ultimate aim to attract customers to rent both the office and commercial spaces.
Apple Patents Glass Cylinder Design
Apple has successfully secured a patent for the cylindrical, glass entrance to its Shanghai store. After trademarking the design and layout of its retail stores last January, this is one more battle Apple has won for copyrighting its signature look.
More on the patented design after the break.
Red Wall / 3GATTI Architecture Studio
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Architects: 3GATTI Architecture Studio
- Area: 14300 m²
- Year: 2008
The Commune Social / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
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Architects: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
- Area: 495 m²
- Year: 2013
Design Republic Design Commune / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
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Architects: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
- Area: 2400 m²
- Year: 2012
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Manufacturers: matteograssi
Google Timelapse Reveals Effects of Rapid Urbanization
NASA, in cooperation with TIME and Google, has unveiled startling timelapse images of Earth from orbit collected by NASA's Landsat program since 1984. This program, created not for spycraft but for monitoring the way in which humans are rapidly altering the surface of the planet, consists of eight satellites that have collected millions of pictures in the course of two generations. When sifted through, cleaned up and stitched together, these pictures come together to create a high-definition slideshow that reveals some of the drastic changes our planet is undergoing - most notably through widespread urbanization.
Rethinking the Split House / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
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Architects: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
- Area: 193 m²
- Year: 2012
SOHO Hailun Plaza / UNStudio
This 33-story SOHO Hailun Plaza is currently being constructed in the dense city of Shanghai. Located at the intersection of two metro lines, the plaza will include a 130-meter office tower and five mixed-use podiums. The design, by UNStudio, treats each structure as a set of objects shaped by the flow of commuters. Each facade will be cloaked in a similar, faceted texture that will “change in appearance when approached from different directions.”
Gensler Tops Out on World's Second Tallest Skyscraper: Shanghai Tower
On schedule to be China’s tallest and the world’s second tallest skyscraper, the Gensler -designed Shanghai Tower has topped out at 632 meters (2,074 feet). Upon completion in 2014, the spiraling megastructure will complete a trio of towers - including the adjacent Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center - to become the centerpiece of the city’s Lujiazui commercial district - one of Asia’s leading financial centers which developed from farmland in just over 20 years.
Defined by series of distinctive sky gardens, the state-of-the-art tower will house Class-A office and retail space, along with a luxury hotel and cultural venues.
Continue reading to learn how the Shanghai Tower’s structure saved millions and why it will achieve LEED Gold.