Foshan Vanke Yiduhui (current name: Vanke Creative Commune) is a group of riverside buildings located in Guicheng Street, Nanhai District, Foshan. It integrates apartments and commerce, and is committed to creating a fashionable and vibrant community for young people. The land area of the project is 13,986 square meters, the total construction area is 78937 square meters, the plot ratio is 4.5, and the base area is 5590 square meters. The creative office building area is 24,240 square meters, the apartment building area is 33,060 square meters, and the commercial building area is 5,637 square meters. The design arranges the super high-rise along Foping Road, and the two high-rise towers form a group layout to strengthen the iconic city image and give the apartment a good view of the landscape and living experience. The project needs to maximize the design quality under strict cost control.
“Qufang Street” means Suzhou as the thoroughfare of Jiuzhou. The project is located at the exit of Suzhou east railway station, close to the greening axis of the square in front of the station. You can see a corner of the neighborhood when you leave the station. Adjacent to the super large-scale central park in the south, the green Suma future city (the domain name of the whole area) is implanted with a non-local scene experience business form integrating Jiangnan garden and Jiangnan ancient town style, creating a unique cultural landscape and simple commercial atmosphere, making it a gateway landmark of Suzhou east high speed railway.
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT studio, led by Benedetta Tagliabue, consolidates its Asian presence by winning the international competition that will turn Century Square into a new green landmark for Shanghai. Located within one of the busiest commercial areas in the world, the renatured plaza will become the central place to experience the many facets of this cosmopolitan city of exceptional cultural richness.
The future Huanggang Port Area masterplan in Shenzhen, China will be an important node of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Science and Technology Corridor, creating a hub of scientific research and collaboration in industries such as microelectronics, material development, artificial intelligence, robotics, and medical sciences.
Reconstruction of the Huanggang Port building will enable the port’s 1.67 square kilometres of parking lots and cargo inspection areas to be redeveloped as a national centre for technology innovation.
Article source: gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
With a total of 14 halls and 140,000 m² of exhibition space, the new conference and exhibition center is one China’s largest exhibition complexes. Its symmetrical layout designed in the form of an H by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) links the urbanity of the Hongdao district in the north with the coastal landscape of Jiaozhou Bay in the south. Its structure and design combine the logistically complex exhibition area into a single unit. The ensemble’s centerpiece is the 40 meter high entrance hall with its curved membrane roof that has a 93 meter wide span.
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Chan Town Showroom is located within the Qianxin Scenic Area of Longnan County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, which is situated at the Qianshan Mountain, a stretch of the northeastern foothills of the Jiu-lian Mountain National Nature Reserve with an average altitude of 600 meters. The half-moon shaped site is halfway on a mountainside, vaguely visible even before arrival while circling up the mountain road. The north side of the site is wide open with unblocked views towards ridges from nearby and afar. The south side bounds the site against the mountain in the back yet divided by a curved footpath spiraling up in the south. The most significant physical condition of the site, on a separate note, is the 8-meter height difference from the east to the west.
In January 2019, Hilton Chengdu Xiexin Hotel officially opened. Like all the works that require patience and meticulous polishing, this project, which lasted seven years from design to construction, is also the first project of Dushe Design. It’s late, but it’s worth the wait. Xiexin Hilton Hotel is part of Xiexin Center Project and is located in the east section of the second ring road in Chengdu. This is a 220,000-square-meter urban integrated community including Grade A office buildings, hotels, commercial and residential buildings. The hotel is the most challenging part.
The Hanshanglou project locates at the Phoenix island of Xiangqiao District in Guangdong, Chaozhou, where the island is one of the eight natural landscapes in the ancient Chaozhou city embraced by quiet elegance and pleasant climate. Taking into consideration the natural scenery of the island, the designer successfully integrates the unique food culture of Chaoshan people with spatial designs, creating a dining space with a perfect combination of color, aroma, taste and appearance.
Sleeping upstairs in diaojiao house for a night, one will have romantic dreams for ten years.”
Whether it is in Western or Southern Hunan, the precious plain land of Hunan has been used for farming for generations, and people there have built stilted house (which is also called diaojiao house) on the riverside and at the foot of mountain to settled down, spread, and flourished. The story is too much to be told, which becomes the “border town” in everyone’s memory.
Foster + Partners has won the design competition for Guangming Hub, a new Transport Oriented Development situated on the high-speed rail link that connects Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The proposal also integrates three new metro lines in the city and is the central focus of a new masterplan for the region that aims to create a new urban destination.