“Open space provides freedom of growth and opportunity for new possibilities. One immersed in the space should experience the freedom of living through creatively interacting with it.” This is what designers Margie and Xinru said in regards to the idea of "freedom" in space. They implemented this idea in a high-rise apartment in the central area of...
Project name
Central City Apartment, Shenzhen
Architecture firm
X-ZOO Design
Principal architect
Xinru Wei, Margie Zhao
Environmental & MEP engineering
Typology
Residential › Apartment
Perceiving the Landscape and Lighting the Nature. Less than 100 days before the opening of the Asian Games Hangzhou, Fuyang Yinhu Sports Center is ready for the arrival of the Asian Games, the sustainable operation after the Games and the evaluation from all walks of life. The design team of the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang...
Project name
Fuyang Yinhu Sports Center - Shooting, Archery and Modern Pentathlon Venue for the Asian Games
Architecture firm
ACRC, The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University
Location
West of the Intersection of Jiulong Avenue and Longxi South Road, Yinhu New District, Fuyang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Principal architect
Hu Huifeng
Collaborators
Video: Wu Qingshan; Project Person in Charge: Zhang Chenfan and Li Bing. For architecture: Zhang Chenfan, Fang Hua, Lv Ning, Huang Diqi, Zhu Jinyun and Zhang Ziquan. For structure: Zhang Zhengyu and Jiang Fan. For water supply and drainage: Ouyang Hui and Wang Tiefeng. For HVAC: Cao Zhigang, Zhu Shengwei and Li Xintong. For electrical: Yuan Songlin, Feng Shizhen, Zou Fan and Zheng Kai. For intelligentization: Lin Hua, Ye Minjie and Yuan Xiaonan. For lighting: Wang Xiaodong, Wang Junjie, Liu Yihan, Feng Baile and Wu Xuhui. For decoration: Ye Jian, Huang Jianghui and Lin Yunhui. For decoration electrical: Xiao Shuzheng and Yu Zicheng. For curtain wall: Hang Fei, Dou Lisha, Luo Wenxin and Yuan Zengrong. For gardening: Feng Bin, Wu Jina, Shen Haitao, Zhang Beibei, Xu Hui, Wang Jue and Zhu Qunjian. For municipal administration: Chen Hao, Wu Lingling, Ling Jiayuan, Zhou Hua, Zhu Min, Wang Xueyan and Sun Zhe. For rock-soil: Chen Yun, Yang Qinfeng, Xin Lei and Gu Jiacheng. Principal: Hangzhou Fuyang Yinhu New District Construction Co., Ltd.
Construction
Shanghai Baoye Group Corp., Ltd.
Material
Roof: Aluminum-magnesium-manganese metal roof. Facade: Aluminum alloy shutter curtain wall. Interior facade: Wood wire sound-absorbing board
Smart New World Innovation Center project is located in Hangzhou High-tech Zone, on the north bank of Qiantang River, and next to Zhijiang Bridge. It is a gathering area and incubation base of wisdom industry integrating commercial services and business office functions, which will attract a number of high-tech industries and strategic emerging ind...
Project name
Smart New World Innovation Center
Location
Hangzhou City, China
Principal architect
Zhang Wei
Design team
Zheng Yilin, Guo Xinxin, Sun Jun, Shi Yiyuan, Zhang Jing Structure: Song Renqian, Zhong Zhouneng
Interior design
Dianshang Architectural Decoration Co.,Ltd.
Landscape
Guo Yu, Zhou Run, Wang Dingding
Environmental & MEP
Environmental & emp: Water Supply and Drainage: Zhang Bin, Hu Ting; HVAC: Li Jinniu; Electrical: Zhuo Zuhang, Yu Haiyang
Material
Metal, perforated panel, Glass, Curtain Wall
Client
Hangzhou High-Tech Investment Holding Group Co., LTD
Typology
Commercial › Office Building, Innovation Center
The Sinuating Flow high-rise proposal pays homage to Sichuan’s unique geography, which is surrounded by magnificent mountain ranges and situated in a basin. The design draws inspiration from the region’s characteristic landforms and lush natural resources that flourish along the water bodies from the mountains to the valleys.
Project name
Sinuating Flow
Architecture firm
StudioTiltedCircle
Visualization
StudioTiltedCircle
Tools used
AutoCad, Adobe Creative Cloud, Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Autodesk Maya, Enscape
Principal architect
Xie Qilin
Landscape
StudioTiltedCircle
Client
Skyrise 2022 Competition
Status
Concept - Design, Shortlisted
Typology
Commercial › Mixed-use Development
By using the contrast between constancy and change to reveal the essence of architectural development. By using big history to contextualize specific architectural phenomena. By using a specific and profound analysis of these phenomena to echo the changes of the times.
Project name
RARA Whole-House Showroom
Architecture firm
CUN Design
Location
Hall 3 of Poly World Trade Center Expo, Guangzhou, China
Photography
Qin Zhaoliang
Principal architect
Cui Shu
Design team
Kong Weiqing, Xu Lichao.
Typology
Commercial › Showroom
Taking up the metaphor of avian migration, Migratory Birds 300, a 300-hour artist residency, brings together 300 creators from diverse fields and backgrounds to congregate and co-create by the seaside of Aranya, China.
Written by
MAD Architects
Photography
Courtesy of Aranya Theater Festival, MAD Architects Qi Ziying
The concrete palace designed by Wutopia Lab, namely The Eye of The Museum of the Palace Museum of the Manchurian Regime (Changchun), which is the first decorative fair-faced concrete building in Jilin Province, the largest fair-faced concrete building in Northeastern China, and the largest thin-shell large-span earth-sheltered swept surface undergr...
Project name
Deep Time Palace
Architecture firm
Wutopia Lab
Location
No. 5 Guangfu North Road, Kuancheng District, Changchun City, China
Photography
CreatAR Images
Principal architect
Yu Ting, Huang He (Project Architect), Pu Shengrui (Project Manager)
Design team
Pu Shengrui, Pan Dali, Sun Liran (Conceptual Design Phase), Xie Jialin (Drawing Compilation Phase)
Collaborators
Installation Design: Kuang Zhou, Huang He, Xie Jialin. Design Consultants: Wei Minfei, Miao Binhai, Zhang Zhun, Qian Yanmin, Lin Xingchun, Zhang Kejie. Chloe Zhang, Zang Yanting, Deng Xiaodan. Low-voltage System Design: Jilin Beihua Electric Power Technology Design & Research Institute Jilin Yongji Branch
Interior design
Jilin Wuyi Construction Co., Ltd. Shanghai Hip-pop Architectural Decoration Design Co.,Ltd. (Concept)
Landscape
Changchun Garden Planning Research Institute Co.,Ltd.
Lighting
Gradient Lighting Design
Construction
Owner Construction Committee: Wang Zhiqiang, Hu Hailong, Zhou Bo, Ai Xuesong, Su Zhenda, Liu Yongwei, Wei Wei. Construction Proxy: Changchun Municipal Government Investment Construction Project Management Center. Construction Drawing: Tianjin Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd. Construction Side: China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Co.,Ltd.(North China)
Material
Fair-faced Concrete
Client
Palace Museum of the Manchurian Regime
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
In the mountain city of Chongqing, there is such a middle school that integrates
individualized educational thinking into the campus environment. It is like a spaceship
that landed on the earth out of nowhere. The conflicting and inclusive traits are just
rightly integrated, which makes you wonder whether there a possibility to subvert the...
Project name
Chongqing Nankai Liangjiang Secondary Schoo
Location
Chongqing, China
Photography
gad, Shiromio Studio, Jinrong Huang, Guangkun Yang
Principal architect
Qiulong Zhu. Project creator: Yan Wu, Yu Guo, Yuanxing Cao, Siyuan Zeng, Lu Gan, Ning Kang, Xin Guo, Kai Tang, Zhen Lu, Xiangpeng Xing
Design team
Qiulong Zhu, Yan Wu, Xin Guo, Yang Yu, Yu Guo, Yuanxing Cao, Siyuan Zeng, Lu Gan, Ning Kang, Lingyan, Wang, Lin Li, Zhen Lu, Kai Tang, Xiangpeng Xing, Jianwei Yang, Lu Zhng, Min Li
Landscape
Chongqing Liang Jiang New District Xixnnan Education
Structural engineer
Tao Yu, Xiaodong Lv, Zhiwei Shan, Jia Huang, Bo Zhou, Qijun Shu, Jitao Shi, Tao Li, Lianhua Wang, Chuankun Wang, Huaqiang Wang, Changling Pei, Haiyang Liu
Environmental & MEP
Water Supply and Drainage: Junfang Cui, Fengyuan Zhou, Zhen Li, Dan Zhao, Haibin Liu, Yunlong Jiang. HVAC: Yuankun Liu, Xiaofeng Zhang, Luchun Wan, Jidong Xia, Zhengguang Liu, Shufeng Liu. Electrical: Lin Zhou, Weihao Mu, Longsheng Feng, Yuanyuan Sui, Xingyue Zhou, Yutuan Wang.
Construction
CMCU Engineering Corporation (Construction Drawing)
Tools used
SketchUp, Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator,Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Enscape, V-ray
Client
Chongqing Liang Jiang New District Xixnnan Education Information Consulting Service Co., Ltd.
Typology
Educational › School