Wenzhou: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  NAN Architects

• Location

  Wenzhou Avenue, Longwan District, Wenzhou, China

• Category

  Showroom

• Architect in Charge

  Xu Nan

• Design Team

  Huilian Tang, Dingqi Zhou, Ziyu Cheng, Wenyu Wang

• Area

  1500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  FangFang Tian

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• Interiors Designers

  NINE PICK Design

• Location

  Wen Chang Lu, Wenzhou Shi, Zhejiang Sheng, China

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Lead Architect

  Wangsi Chen

• Design Team

  Chuanda Fang, Changquan Lin, Chunyi Li

• Client

  Zhejiang Guoji Internet

• Area

  6084.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  ALONG

Benoy has released images of their competition-winning design for a waterfront development in Wenzhou, China. INCITY MEGA will form part of the Central Green Axis masterplan, a dramatic landscaped district cutting through the urban fabric of Wenzhou.

The 2.6 million square foot (250,000 square meter) INCITY MEGA scheme will occupy two of the eight plots on the Central Green Axis, with a mixed-use program including retail, movie theaters, plazas, and gyms. The scheme is in response to a rapidly-growing consumer population in Wenzhou and will join the ranks of previous schemes in the region by Hammer Schmidt Lassen, UNStudio, and HENN.

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• Architects

  FAX ARCHITECTS

• Location

  Wenzhou, Zhejiang. China

• Category

  Retail

• Lead Architect

  Chenguang Fang

• Area

  35885.89 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Long

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• Architects

  FAX ARCHITECTS

• Location

  Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

• Category

  Elementary & Middle school

• Lead Architect

  Chenguang Fang

• Project Team

  Wenshi Tao, Tingliang Wang, Leilei Zhou, Yingying Wang, Xingu Zhang, Shifeng Bao, Chengyu Gu, Xueran Lin

• Executive Architect

  ZheJiang Huayue Architectural Design Institute

• Landscape Design

  ZheJiang Lvjian Design Institute

• Clients

  Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School

• Area

  28089.32 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Sicong Sui

A team comprised of Moore Ruble Yudell (MRY), Tongji Architectural Design and Research Institute and SWA Landscape have proposed the winning design for the new College of Architecture and Design at Wenzhou-Kean University in Wenzhou, China. Their design is made up of a series of rectangular volumes, at the core of which lies a large forum, central to both the building and the university as a whole. Prominently sited at the entrance to the campus, the new College presents a grand portico to welcome visitors into the university through the formal entry quad.

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has been awarded first prize in the competition to design the Student Center and Library for the Wenzhou-Kean University in Wenzhou, China. Set on 500 acres of land in a rural mountainous region, the 25,000 square meter project will provide learning and living space for 8,500 students.

Wenzhou-Kean University is cooperatively run by Wenzhou University, in China, and Kean University, in New Jersey, USA, and aims to merge Chinese and American teaching methodologies. Thus, the new Student Center and Library is focused on embracing diversity, interaction, and the sharing of knowledge.

Kean University has announced plans to open a new architecture school based on the design philosophy of Michael Graves. Following the footsteps of a man who laments the “loss of drawing,” the new Michael Graves School of Architecture will prioritize hand drawings as a key to design process.

“In our technologically savvy world, to this day, Michael Graves’ philosophy is to draw by hand first so that the students see, ‘feel’ and experience the new building spatially. Then, only after the drawing is complete will the students transfer the design to a computer so that the computer becomes an execution tool, not an ideation tool,” describes acting dean and former student of Graves, David Mohney.

HENN has been selected to design a 160-meter, mixed-use tower for a new Central Business District in the eastern China metropolis of Wenzhou. Located in close proximity to the Ou Jiang river, on the district’s southern edge, the Wenzhou Tower hopes to serve as the gateway to the new city development.

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• Architects

  UNStudio

• Location

  Wenzhou, China

• Category

  Skyscrapers

• Architects in Charge

  Ben van Berkel, Astrid Piber

• Design Team

  Hannes Pfau, Ger Gijzen, Juliane Maier, Martin Zangerl and Sontaya Bluangtook, Amanda Chan, Albert Gnodde, Jan Kokol, Patrik Noome, Mo Lai, Jan Rehders, René Rijkers, Stefano Rocchetti, Shuang Zhang

• Project Year

  2013

Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has announced that their proposal for the Yongjia World Trade Center Competition has been selected as the winning entry. Unlike the typical world trade center—which usually represents only a concentration business or financial programs—UNStudio has incorporated recreational and cultural facilities and residential units into their plan. For the site in the riverside city of Wenzhou, located in the southeastern Zhejiang province of China, UNStudio identified the driving force behind the project as the "notion of precious objects on a tray...where the continuous podium landscape occupies the entire site and serves as a tray-like, green plain for the towers."