Article source: gmp · Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
With the National Museum, which combines two new museums for the display of China’s cultural heritage, the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have completed an important component of the new cultural quarter in the Olympic Green in Beijing. The external design makes reference to the function of the building, which with its changing color and light effects created by the sculptural structuring of the facade is clearly visible from near and far.
The museum building marks the northern end of Beijing’s Central Axis and is not far from the National Stadium, the Bird’s Nest, and the Asia Financial Center & AIIB Headquarters completed by gmp in 2021. For the first time, an opportunity is provided to present valuable collections of Chinese arts and crafts and items of intangible cultural heritage at national level.
The exposition “Kerbedz: Following The Engineering Ideas” is inspired by Stanislav Kerbedz (1810–1899), a 19th-century civil engineer. Kerbedz was also the landowner of Luznava Manor and his daughter built Luznava Manor. The interactive exposition is located in three rooms of the Manor’s basement.
‘Chornobyl. Journey’ is a multimedia exhibition dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster. The project’s goal was to form a new perspective on the Chornobyl tragedy: to help people reevaluate history and prompt a discussion about the future of the Exclusion Zone.
The organizers aspired to tell the story of Chornobyl in a contemporary manner and transport the audience into the epicenter of the events using immersive technology such as VR.
Designs for The Forestias– a new residential-led masterplan with a large forest at its heart – have been revealed. Located on the outskirts of Bangkok, the pioneering development addresses the growing disconnect between contemporary city life and family traditions, underpinned by the idea of health and wellbeing. It focusses on the themes of serving the community, promoting multi-generational family co-living and reconnecting with nature, providing a template for healthier and happier urban living in Thailand. The entire development is based on smart city principles, with autonomous vehicles, smart meters and sensor networks.
Space is a dialogue between elements of old and new. Light brings people to the faded history, but also to the colorful modernity.
“Tibei” is the earliest large-scale livable area in Tianjin. Now it has developed into a typical mature community in Tianjin, representing the pride of a city and an era.
China’s landscape and cities have undergone tremendous transformation in the last few decades. However, the Beigou Village, which is located in the Huairou District and just on the outskirts of Beijing, maintains its traditional historical appearance.
The village’s remote location and barren soil have kept this unique site mostly undiscovered by the outside world. However, in 2005 the secretary of the new village committee of Beigou Village took office and saw great potential. He witnessed the depression and barrenness of Beigou Village and became determined to lead the villagers to build Beigou Village into a garden-like new countryside. Immediately in 2007 and 2015, two “Environmental Revolutions” were launched in order to realize the dream of the garden countryside.
Located in Xin’an Center of Baoan, China Merchants Unique Palace Sales Center will become a new residential landmark that leads and witnesses the development of the city. Adhering to a prudent attitude and an open perspective, in response to the concerns of the times and people, BLVD extracts design elements from high-end fashion stores. Through the fusion of fashion aesthetics and artistic spirit, a beautiful life scene where reality and the future are intertwined, and individuals collide with the times has been built.
Located on the west bank of the Yamuna River close to a plethora of cultural and historical sites along New Delhi’s Central Vista Avenue (Rajpath), Pragati Maidan has been an important area of civic interaction since it was designated as a national exhibition space in 1972. Aedas, in a consortium with Arcop, won the international architectural design competition in 2016 to re-plan the 123.5 acres site and to design a world-class venue for the city. Known as the International Exhibition & Convention Centre (IECC), the project will provide over 100,000 sq m of exhibition space with a Convention Centre at a planned capacity of 13,500 people.
In early 2019, ALL Studio was asked by HUATENG Co.,Ltd. to design the exhibition hall of Shiwan town (an ancient town in the south of Wuzhen town) in an agricultural tourism park. In the planning design, the whole park retains the original natural feeling to the greatest extent. When people enter the site from the southwest corner of the park, they can see the plum forest and open grassland surrounded by bamboo fences in the park. Therefore, the design consideration of the exhibition hall building is also defined as a simple and rough temperament in nature from the beginning of the design.
The exhibition hall is located at the west part of the park, adjacent to the main entrance of the park, close to the municipal road in the west, and the landscape and water system in the East of the park, facing to the organic restaurant across the lake. The form of the building is composed of two physical space and one courtyard, from south to north, followed by souvenir shop, courtyard and exhibition space. The subtle connection between the natural landscape of the whole park and the functional space contained in the buildings, at the same time, the vision and feeling of several courtyards has also been concerned from the beginning.
Architecture and people are closely intertwined and through the creation of a space, the connection between the individuals within a space is encouraged. This was the starting point for the installation designed by noa*. The concept proposes a kind of light and sound landscape, which welcomes visitors as they enter the exhibition.
On either side of the doorway, a crown of structural light-beams open up, each one at different heights, visually amplifying the sequence of the 17th-century portico that serves as the setting for the installation.
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