MAD architects, led by Ma Yansong, is nearing the completion of the China Philharmonic Concert Hall in Beijing, China, for which the firm won the design competition in 2014. With an overall site of 11,600 sqm and a total building area of 26,000 sqm, the concert hall is one of the most significant cultural projects in the nation’s capital
Project name
China Philharmonic Concert Hall
Architecture firm
MAD Architects
Photography
CreatAR, Zhengdong.Li, Xu Chen
Principal architect
Principal Partners in Charge: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano. Associate Partners in Charge: Liu Huiying, Kin Li
Design team
Zheng Chengwen, Wang Qi, Fu Xiaoyi, He Xiaokang, Xiao Ying, Zeng Hao, Wang Shuobin, Wang Yiming, Hu Jinchang, Jacob Hu, Brecht van Acker, Wang Deyuan, Dora Lam, Ben Yuqiang, Zhang Long, Deng Wei, Connor Hymes, Chen Yien, Shen Chen, Yan Ran
Collaborators
Executive Architect: Radio, Film & TV Design and Research Institute, Beijing Homedale Institute of Urban Planning & Architectural Design. Façade Consultant: RFR Shanghai. Signage Design: Zheng Bang Creative (Beijing) Brand Technology Company Limited
Interior design
Beijing Honggao Architectural Decoration and Construction Design Co., Ltd.
Structural engineer
CCDI Group
Landscape
Palm Design Co., Ltd
Client
China Philharmonic Orchestra
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Concert Hall
The project was launched with the ambitious objective of transforming a former coal-mining area into a landscape park, which is not only a model for the landscape design that is so essential in China, but also contains a building infrastructure that can be used for researching into and offering people access to and information about natural ecosyst...
Project name
Taiyuan Botanical Garden
Architecture firm
Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA)
Location
Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, China
Design team
Maria Dirnberger, Volker Gessendorfer, Bernd Heger, Tom Peter-Hindelang, Klara Jörg, Rangel Karaivanov, Leonard Kern, Kinga Kwasny, Toni Nachev, Martin Schneider, Petras Vestartas
Collaborators
Institute of Shanghai Architectural Design & Research (Co.,Ltd.), Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure, Yiju Ding
Structural engineer
Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure, StructureCraft
Environmental & MEP
Cody Energy Design
Landscape
Valentien+Valentien Landschaftsarchitekten und Stadtplaner SRL, Beijing BLDJ Landscape Architecture Insitute Co.,Ltd.
Client
Botanical Garden Taiyuan
Typology
Cultural › Greenhouse, Landscape, Museum, Restaurant