It is a public space for infants and children to play. These days, children spend space at the expense of using it. Children pay for the academy and meet their friends to study, and teenagers stay at cafes by paying the fee. Not only children and teenagers but also infants and toddlers can play at kids cafes and amusement parks. In this world of consuming space, people who are in financial difficulties are not free to use space even to study or play. Therefore, we need public play space for infants and children to use it free, not consumption of space. Publicly operated spaces for infants and children should have been able to operate flexibly due to changes in the program rather than the installation of special amusement facilities at existing kids’ cafes. Above all, we hoped that it would be a place like a house where children can come to their own house and play comfortably. We installed small houses that fit the eyes of small children, and each house will be filled with a different kind of toy or play program. It is a space where naughty people can play around in their own homes.
In the core area of Zhongguancun, China’s most intensive resource for innovation and entrepreneurship, the Chuangye Street with a total length of only 220 meters is like a blood vessel which is surging to deliver oxygen to the fast-running city.
Completed in September 2020 and located at the north exit of Chuangye Street, the Inno. EcoSLab in Zhongguancun, which was designed and renovated by QUCESS, provides the city and the urbanite with a unique space open for 24-hours a day. In addition to the obvious mix-used functional space, it is more like a small energy pump, injecting energy into the city’s respiration, and jointly completing its daily metabolism.
Taking good care of personal health and staying comfortable in a space are growing priorities for today’s consumers, a trend that has intensified since the pandemic. The Zijing Paradise Walk retail mall is a considered response by architectural practice LWK + PARTNERS.
Sedlčany Community Centre is situated close to the historic centre of Sedlčany in Central Bohemia, south of Prague. It consists of two buildings establishing a natural transition between the town’s historic block structure and the less densely developed area. The tenement house ends the street line establishing a corner. The point of gravity of the slightly stepped-back house of prayer is rotated towards the town’s centre closing and orienting the new municipal park at the same time. Two different approaches are used for the tenement house and the house of prayer; the more traditionally conceived tenement house is by its expression and composition conforms to the house of prayer establishing a quality space for it. It is designed as a simple or even modest form referring to the distinct shape of the house of prayer by its inclining plane in the back section.
A new district on the fringe of Nanjing, formulated on the green dream of modernist planning, and comprised mostly of large autonomous gated housing communities has left Pukou as a well-engineered city but one with limited opportunity for dynamic public life. This project brings an intense moment of urbanity to the district, maximising public space and opening opportunities for the emergence of public life.
RMJM RED have won a competition for a mixed-use development that will become the Ningbo Yongjiang Innovation Centre. The studio’s design is a response to the unique setting that is at a threshold between the urban and the natural. The site is framed by Zhongshan East road to the south and Houtang River to the north. The team envisaged the development as an archipelago of islands rising out of and energised by the river. The arrangement of these building ‘islands’ encourages unrestricted movement around the development at the ground level and offers a unique street-level experience.
Aedas Global Design Principal Dr. Andy Wen designs Shenzhen’s newest 210-metre super high-rise landmark – the SHUIBEI International Centre. Shaping the city’s skyline with contemporary urban renewal developments, he states that, “Urban regeneration is not simply replacing old and weathered buildings with new ones, but rather building a new relationship and a deeper connection between the city and its people through these new developments. This connection requires more than just space as it also integrates everyday organic synergy from the community.”
Bob Chen Design Office completed a 100-year-old village reconstruction project in Wuzhen. The owners are part of the new generation of rapid urbanization. They saw opportunity in the disorderly development outside the official scenic spot and an apparent conflict with traditional lifestyles. Traditional regionalism is not the only characteristic of Wuzhen. Daily village life and Jiangnan regionalism can, and should, include urban cosmopolitanism and high-class experiences. They discovered Tanjiaqiao Village, then entrusted Bob Chen with creating a new exploration in urbanization development and village reconstruction in Wuzhen.
The new Teleclub Bécquer acts as a daily meeting place for the residents of Noviercas. It replaces the only bar that since 1970 housed the first television in this village in the northeast of Soria, now part of the empty Spain.
Thinking the future after global pandemic lock down. The Hualanco Community Center is an investigation of how architecture can help to revive cultural activities, from the Peruvian highlands to the desert region of Chile’s Atacama. The ephemeral structure is modular, removable, itinerant and protected by a textile membrane. We imagine that the return to outdoor life should be democratic, with alot of music, cinema, art, dance and typical foods.
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