Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), the masterplan for Khalid Bin Sultan City is adjacent to BEEAH’s acclaimed headquarters in Sharjah. Anchored by four guiding principles — sustainability, smart technology, culture, and people — ZHA’s design continues the philosophies embedded with the architecture of the renowned headquarters building.
Project name
Khalid Bin Sultan City
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Martina Rosati, Maria Vergopoulou-Efstathiou, Wei-Yu Hsiao, Aurora Santana, Cherylene Shangpliang, Guillermo Rage, Haoyue Zhang, Jessica Wang, Evgeniya Yatsyuk
Collaborators
ZHA Project Director: Sara Sheikh Akbari; ZHA Commercial Director: Charles Walker; ZHA Project Associates: Gerry Cruz, Ashwin Shah; ZHA Competition Directors: Paulo Flores, Sara Sheikh Akbari; ZHA Competition Associates: Niran Buyukkoz, Gerry Cruz; ZHA Competition Project Team: Billy Webb, Shardul Awasthi, Gizem Dogan, Amin Yassin; Engineering: Buro Happold; Sustainability & Environmental Design/Lighting: Atelier Ten; Landscape: Gross Max; Architect of Record/Engineer of Record: Bin Dalmouk
MAD Architects has completed Jiaxing Train Station, the firm’s first transportation infrastructure reconstruction and expansion project. Located at the center of Jiaxing, a historic city 100 kilometers southwest of Shanghai, the project replaces a dysfunctional train station that had stood at the site between 1995 and 2019.
Project name
Jiaxing Train Station
Architecture firm
MAD Architects
Photography
CreatAR Images
Principal architect
Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano
Design team
Yao Ran, Yu Lin, Cao Chen, Chen Nianhai, Cheng Xiangju, Reinier Simons, Fu Xiaoyi, Chen Wei, He Shunpeng, Li Zhengdong, Cao Xi, Zhang Kai, Li Xinyun, Kaushik Raghuraman, Deng Wei, Huang Zhiyu, Huai Wei, Sun Mingze, Dayie Wu, Hou Jinghui, Yin Jianfeng, Claudia Hertrich, Liu Zifan, Xie Qilin, Alan Rodríguez Carrillo, Qiang Siyang,
Collaborators
Associate Partners in Charge: Liu Huiying, Tiffany Dalhen; Executive Architects: Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd., China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co., Ltd.; Heritage Consultant: Shanghai Shuishi Architectural Design & Planning Corp.,Ltd.; Signage Consultant: NDC CHINA, Inc.; Façade Consultant: RFR Shanghai.
Built area
around 330,000 m²
Interior design
Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Decoration & Landscape Design Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Landscape
Z’scape Landscape Planning and Design
Structural engineer
LERA Consulting Structural Engineers
Lighting
Beijing Sign Lighting Industry Group
Construction
China Railway Construction Engineering Group, China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group, China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Co., Ltd.
Client
Jiaxing Modern Service Industry Development & Investment (Group) Co., Ltd.
Typology
Train Station › Urban Renewal, Urban Planning, Transportation Infrastructure, Mixed-Use
In 2050, the ocean water level and soil slippage are expected to rise by 25.4 cm each year, and climate scientists predict that by the end of the twenty-first century, water will rise from about 65 cm to 1 meter, and by the middle of the next century many cities around the world may drown and many islands disappear.
Student
Hamzah Anwar Abdo Ali Noman
University
Queen Arwa University
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Autodesk 3ds Max, Lumion
Project name
The Sustainable City between Sea and Land
Status
Graduation Project
Typology
Urban Planning + Housing
Wowhaus was selected as part of the 5 international teams that have designed an architectural and urban development concept in the Open International Competition for the new Ecopolis in Sakhalin, Russia.
Project name
Open international competition for architectural and urban development concept of a new city in Sakhalin region
Architecture firm
Wowhaus (Moscow, Russia), Thomas Stellmach Planning & Architecture (Berlin, Germany); Nomura Research Institute (Tokyo, Japan); Research Institute of Ecology and Rational Use of Natural Resources (Tyumen, Russia)
Location
Sakhalin Region, Russia
Design team
Wowhaus: Likin Dmitry (partner of the Wowhaus bureau), Shapiro Oleg, (partner of the Wowhaus bureau), Sporykhina Ekaterina (lead architect of the project), Kondratieva Anna (project manager), Architects: Totrov Georgy, Serebryakova Veronika, Pushkareva Anna, Mazitova Emilia, Aunusov Timur, Turchin Sergey, Krasheninnikov Ivan, Murashko Tatiana, Vasiliev Ivan, Gevorkyan Tigran. TSPA: Thomas Stellmach (Director of TSPA), Filippo Imberti (Project director), Architects: Isabelle Enssle, Yuan-Jung Wang. Nomura Research Institute: Andrey Rodionov (Head of the NRI Representative Office in Russia and the CIS), Alexander Silnitsky (Principal), Dmitry Savvin (Senior Project Manager). Research Institute of Ecology, Tyumen: Onishchenko Natalia
Client
Sakhalin region development corporation, Government Sakhalin region
Status
Third place in the competition
Typology
Urban Planning › Territorial Development
