Zhengzhou: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  ARIZON DESIGN

• Location

  Zhengzhou, Henan, China

• Category

  Restaurant

• Lead Architects

  Junwei Shen

• Area

  1100.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  SHEN-PHOTO

Either as singular outcroppings or as part of a bustling center, skyscrapers are neck-craning icons across major city centers in the world. A modern trope of extreme success and wealth, the skyscraper has become an architectural symbol for vibrant urban hubs and commercial powerhouses dominating cities like New York, Dubai, and Singapore.

While skyscrapers are omnipresent, 2018 introduced new approaches, technologies, and locations to the high-rise typology. From variations in materiality to form, designs for towers have started to address aspects beyond simply efficiency and height, proposing new ways for the repetitive form to bring unique qualities to city skylines. Below, a few examples of proposals and trends from 2018 that showcase the innovative ideas at work: 

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• Architects

  AmphibianArc, Archimorphic

• Location

  Sub-center of Eastern Zhengzhou New District CBD, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

• Category

  Residential

• Lead Architects

  Nonchi Wang, Luoya Tu

• Design Team

  Ying Tao, David Rodriguez, Dennis Roney, Charles Liu, Da- vid Van Arsdell, Kisung Nam, Brandon Vickers, Brian Skowvron, Elana Pappoff, Xiaofeng Mei, Jiarui Liu, Zhexiong Hu, Michelle Lozano, Nicholas Poulos, Carey England

• Area

  224622.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Terrence Zhang

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• Architects

  WSP ARCHITECTS

• Location

  Zhengzhou Airport Economy Qu, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

• Category

  Offices

• Lead Architects

  Gang Wu, Ling Chen, Tam Nelson

• Design Team

  Zhe Sun, Jinfan Weng, Minghu Zhao, Peng Chen, Donghui Li, Jianlong Guo, Long Li, Zeyang Zhang, Qiaoya Cui, Yujie Li, Yipeng Xiao, Lu Wang, Fei Yu

• Area

  4872.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  RUIJING Photography

The internationally recognized architecture firm Aedas has unveiled their design for the Zhenghong Property Air Harbour Office Project. The sprawling and interconnected 196 foot-tall three-tower complex is proposed for the city of Zhengzhou, the capital of the Henan Province in central China—one of the regions' largest transportation hubs. Occupying a relatively narrow site, the towers are woven together by a rhythmic glass facade inspired by the formal qualities of the winding Yellow River.

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• Architects

  Lab D+H

• Location

  Zhengzhou, Henan, China

• Category

  Learning

• Architect in Charge

  Huicheng Zhong, Xu Jie

• Design Team

  Huicheng Zhong, Xujie, Feimin Song, Zhongwei Li, Bingxing Lin, Hao Lan, Qin Zan

• Client

  Urumqi Garden Bureau

• Area

  600.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Xue'er photography Tang Xi

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• Architects

  Amphibianarc

• Location

  Intersection of Jinshui Dong Road and Dongfeng Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

• Category

  Apartments

• Lead Architects

  Nonchi Wang, Luoya Tu

• Design Team

  Ying Tao, David Rodriguez, Dennis Roney, Charles Liu, David Van Arsdell, Kisung Nam, Brandon Vickers, Brian Skowvron, Elana Pappoff, Xiaofeng Mei, Jiarui Liu, Zhexiong Hu, Michelle Lozano, Nicholas Poulos, Carey England

• Area

  21500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Zhejia Dai

London-based firm Tonkin Liu has released images of its competition-winning Trade Centre in Zhengzhou, China. The Cradle Towers of Zhengzhou will comprise of five mixed-use towers swooping out of a ring-shaped podium. Inspired by the nearby Songshan mountainscape, the scheme aims to celebrate the city’s origins as it rockets into a high-tech future.

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The New York Times has published an in-depth article entitled ‘How China Built iPhone City With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partners’, revealing a treasure chest of public benefits for the world’s biggest iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, China. In a city of six million inhabitants in an impoverished region of China, the local government has contributed $1.5 billion to Foxconn, Apple’s supplier of iPhones. The money is used, in part, to improve local infrastructure, reduce Foxconn's export costs, and build housing for the factory’s 350,000-strong workforce (five times the number of people employed directly by Apple in the United States).

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• Architects

  Amphibian Arc

• Location

  Zhengzhou, Henan, China

• Category

  Retail

• Area

  1200.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Zhejia Dai

• Architects

  Shenzhen Upright & Pure Architectural Design Co., Ltd.

• Location

  Zhengzhou, Henan, China

• Category

  Cultural Center

• Area

  4600.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2013

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• Architects

  Locus Associates

• Location

  Zhengzhou, Henan, China

• Category

  Showroom

• Design Team

  Brandon Huang, Jerome Lee, Kenny Fung, Ray Wan

• Facade Architect

  Shenzhen Upright&Pure Architectural Design Co. Ltd

• Local Architect

  Chongqing Xinzhongjian Architectural Design Consultants

• Area

  18000.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Béton Brut