What is Horizontal Skyscraper? After eight years of planning, design and construction, the 250-metre-high glass-bottom exploration deck at raffles city Chongqing is welcoming visitors in china. Designed by Safdie architects for CapitaLand and featuring a 270-degree panorama of Chongqing’s skyline, guests to the glass-bottom deck are treated to the thrills of walking in mid-air while admiring views of the Yangtze River’s […]
Cloud Cube Housing For Young Families, located in kunshan city. an industry-based city, on the outskirts of metro shanghai, chain is the ‘cloud cube housing ‘ project. The sky rises cube housing completed by formless architects. This cube housing project were created, for young working class families. who live and work locally. the structures needed […]
Contemporary Sculpture By Arata Isozaki At Zendai Himalayas Center, Located in Huamu Sub-civic Center. One of the four sub centers in Shanghai. This Contemporary Sculpture building of Zendai Himalayas Center, reigns supreme in terms of its strategic location opposite the Shanghai New International Expo Center. Within walking distance to Fangdian Road station of Metro Line […]
Tianjin Binhai Public Library: Dutch firm MVRDV has built a public library, designed in collaboration with the Tianjin urban planning and design institute (TUPDI). That looks like a huge 3D eyeball, as part of a new cultural district in Tianjin, China. The atrium of the Tianjin Binhai Public Library is deliberately designed to look like […]
This is about TEB, an Transit Elevated Bus. This concept developed before some time in china. And the world’s first elevated bus is take first test drive few days back in qinhuangdao, hebei province in China, this week. This Transit elevated bus system is really a huge vehicle. In terms of specifications, TEB spans 22 […]
The Qujing History Museum has been designed to create an ‘anti-gravity’ feel, – its huge structural parts are stepped out to mirror the stairs below and balanced on a small podium at one end, so it appears to be hovering. The Qujing History Museum, developed on behalf of the Qujing Culture and Sports Center Building […]
Shanghai Museum Of Contemporary Art by Atelier Deshaus, brings together vaulted columns and an industrial relic. The Art museum-one of 15 architecture projects shortlisted for the Design Museum’s 2015 Designs of the Year awards. This was designed by Shanghai firm Atelier Deshaus, led by architect Liu Yichun. The Museum Of Contemporary Art gallery, in Shanghai built around […]
Wooden Orchids – Green Shopping Center presented as part of a larger master plan, Vincent Callebaut Architectures have received honorary mention for their “Wooden Orchids” proposal in the International Union of Architects’ (UIA) Mount Lu Estate of World Architecture Competition. This Wooden Orchids project by vincent callebaut architectures has been designed to combat potentially damaging migration […]
Urban Planning Exhibition Center by Playze and Schmidhuber for Ningbo, China. when playze and Schmidhuber have been selected as winners of an invited competition to design the Urban Planning Exhibition Center in Ningbo, China. Inspired by the ancient art form of the Chinese ribbon dance, the exhibition center aims to “blur the lines” between citizens and decision […]
School building design ideas: Wonderful use of the Rooftop Running Track shapes Primary School by LYCS architecture in China. I am always surprised that what could be a prized piece of real estate, an open roof, is not developed more often. As a display for how roof levels can offer added functionality in the built […]
The Land of Hope at China Pavilion Milan Expo 2015. This is the theme for the China Pavilion. Rejecting the typical notion of a cultural pavilion as an object in a plaza, the China Pavilion Milan Expo is instead conceived as a field of spaces. Envisioned as a cloud hovering over a “land of hope”, the China […]
Innovative Architecture of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Administration & Information Building. Located in Suzhou Industrial Park, the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University occupies a beautiful environment. Where there is a harmonious coexistence of the city’s rich cultural traditions and its rapid economic development. Aedas’ design for its Administration Information Building was inspired by the famous Taihu stone unearthed […]
Shekou will be the home of the first major museum of design in China by 2016. Base on a contract that was sign in London by the Victoria and Albert Museum in Britain. With China Merchants Group. The contract signing was also witness by British Prime Minister David Cameron and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Architect Fumihiko […]
Urban Architecture of Feng Tai District, China: Studio Marco Piva has been commissioned to defined the development of three plots of the central area of Feng Tai (the global project has been called Liza), that will be the new financial district of the city. The Urban Architecture project involves the development of three towers , two […]
Eco Sustainable Culture and Art Center of Yuhang, China. is one of the latest architectural proposal by Studio Marco Piva. Yuhang is a district of the Zhejiang province, under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou, just 150 km far from Shanghai. The city is the birthplace of Liangzhu Primitive Culture, which boasts the Dawn of Chinese Civilization […]