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Hong Kong-Shenzhen Boundary Control Point by WAU Studio

Posted on April 12, 2012

A complementary and mutual beneficial partnership, Hong Kong and Shenzhen will join the globalization as an integrated image and get benefit. With intimate collaboration, the proposal for the Hong Kong-Shenzhen boundary control point by WAU Design will serve as a symbol of close communication. The scheme concept comes from ‘ink’: many single units can be twisted into a solid and integrated form. This scheme, a twisted link, indicates multi-level and deep cooperation between Hong Kong and Shenzhen on economic, cultural, and multi-faceted levels.

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Elevated Night Club Hotel in Hong Kong by Urbanplunger

Posted on March 11, 2012

Young architectural studio Urbanplunger was recently awarded third prize in the international competition to design a Night Club Hotel in the dense city of Hong Kong. Their proposal consists of a uniquely suspended building structure described as an “architectural parasite” that leans on neighboring buildings in order to elevate itself above ground. Continue Reading →

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SOM Wins Master Plan Competition for Beijing Bohai Innovation City

Posted on February 29, 2012

In an international design competiton for the rapid development of satellite cities along Chinese high speed rail corridors, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) Beijing Bohai Innovation City master plan has just been named the winning submission. Continue Reading →

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SOM to Design the ‘Greenland Group Suzhou Center’ in Wujiang, China

Posted on February 1, 2012

The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has won an international competition to design Greenland Group Suzhou Center, a 358-meter supertall landmark tower, in Wujiang, China. This is SOM Chicago’s sixth project with the Greenland Group. Continue Reading →

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Ordos 100 Villa Designed by PRODUCTORA

Posted on October 6, 2010

100 villas designed by 100 international architects selected by Herzog & de Meuron and curated by Ai Weiwei.

This villa designed by PRODUCTORA is located in plot #02 of the project called ORDOS 100 (Inner Mongolia, China).

From PRODUCTORA:

“As a starting point for our design a solid brick volume was cut up diagonally into different slices, creating a series of autonomous volumes with different sizes and characteristics. On the ground floor these strips are interconnected through wide passages, generating a complex multidirectional space in which all the day activities take place. Above this level the night activities are organized. Continue Reading →

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‘Pearl River Necklace’ by NL Architects

Posted on September 4, 2010

NL Architects have designed a conceptual bridge for the Hong Kong border, featuring roads that would loop over each other to allow for the fact that traffic must drive on the left in Hong Kong but on the right in China.

Called ‘Pearl River Necklace’, the design would link artificial islands to form a bridge between Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau.

NL Architects designed the project for the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities International Design Ideas Competition. Continue Reading →

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Proposals launched for Foster + Partners’ ‘City Park’ at West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

Posted on August 25, 2010

UK architects Foster + Partners have also announced their proposed masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong.

The master plan involves two parks – a city park and the main nineteen hectare great park – while the streets, avenues and waterfront will be heavily planted. Continue Reading →

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ORDOS 100: I|K Studio

Posted on August 13, 2010

’4-2-1 HOUSE’ by I|K Studio is located in slot #55 of the Chinese Ordos 100 Project in Inner Mongolia. Continue Reading →

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OMA Wins Competition for New Chu Hai College Campus in Hong Kong

Posted on August 2, 2010

In January 2010, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in collaboration with Leigh & Orange Architects has won the competition for the new campus for Chu Hai College of Higher Education in the New Territories in Hong Kong. The campus will give Chu Hai College, established in 1947, a new identity as well as a new site. Continue Reading →

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OMA’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange Tops Out

Posted on June 29, 2010

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) – designed by OMA as the new home for China’s equivalent of the NASDAQ exchange for hi-tech industries – topped out today at 246 metres. The building is remarkable not only for its height: with a raised podium suspended 36 metres over a public plaza and projecting 54 metres from the tower base, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange has one of the largest cantilevers in the world. Continue Reading →

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