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BAU designs winding bridge in China as a “hybrid” of landscape and infrastructure

January 20, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Aerial view of bridge over Yuandang Lake

A snaking bridge that incorporates spaces for play, rest and planting connects two areas of wetland across Shanghai’s Yuandang Lake, in this project by Brearley Architects + Urbanists. The China and Australia-based Brearley Architects + Urbanists (BAU) designed the 586-metre beam bridge for cyclists and pedestrians as a “hybrid structure”, blending architecture, infrastructure and landscape

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Drone video showcases exterior of 1,000 Trees by Heatherwick Studio

January 19, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

This drone video captures the exterior of 1,000 Trees, a shopping centre in China that Thomas Heatherwick’s studio designed to resemble a greenery-covered mountain. Recently opened in Shanghai, the building is covered with 1,000 structural columns that Heatherwick Studio has turned into planters for over 1,000 trees and 250,000 plants. In the video, the planters

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Spiralling ramp surrounds arts centre in China by Syn Architects

January 17, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Tiangang Art Center has a timber and white painted exterior

A spiralling ramp creates an unfolding, experiential route for visitors through the Tiangang Arts Center, a combined art gallery and hotel in China’s Hebei Province designed by Syn Architects. The centre is located in the village of Tiangang, next to a lake at the foot of the Taihang Mountains. Its distinctive spiral shape, described by

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MAD models “futuristic” cruise terminal in China on gantry cranes

January 13, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

A string of orange buildings elevated above ground will mark the Cuntan International Cruise Centre, which Chinese studio MAD has designed for a port in Chongqing, China. Developed by MAD with the China Academy of Building Research (CASR) for Cuntan Port on the Yangtze River, the scheme marries an international cruise terminal with commercial spaces.

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“We all need places that trigger a response” says Thomas Heatherwick

January 13, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

With Thomas Heatherwick’s controversial 1,000 Trees project recently opening in Shanghai, the British designer told Dezeen why he believes the top of structural columns is “the best possible place” to plant trees in this exclusive interview. Heatherwick designed the project to be a distinctive shopping centre that he hopes will become the “heart of a

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Gad builds bamboo-fronted exhibition centre for Shaoxing rice wine

January 12, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Gridded facade of Shaoxing Rice Wine Town Reception Room by Gad

Chinese architecture studio Gad has completed a building with a gridded bamboo facade, which serves as an exhibition centre for a traditional type of Chinese wine. The Shaoxing Rice Wine Town Reception Room is located in Dongpu, a town in China’s Zhejiang province where this particular type of yellow rice wine originates. Gad – one

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Linehouse designs space-themed cafe in Shanghai for creator of “Australia’s most Instagrammed dessert”

January 12, 2022 Christina Yao 0

Design studio Linehouse combined stainless steel and meteorites to create a space-themed cafe in central Shanghai as Australian chain Black Star Pastry’s first Chinese outpost. The ground floor of the red-brick villa serves as a coffee and pastry shop for Black Star Pastry, which is famous for selling a Strawberry Watermelon Cake that was dubbed “Australia’s most Instagrammed

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Thomas Heatherwick unveils 1,000 Trees shopping centre in Shanghai

January 12, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled a plant-covered shopping centre in Shanghai, China, that incorporates over 1,000 trees and 250,000 plants. Named 1,000 Trees to reference its planting, the nine-storey building was designed to resemble a greenery-covered mountain. Located alongside the M50 art district and the Suzhou Creek, the block officially opened to the public last

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Naturalbuild redesigns Chinese marketplace to encourage “spontaneous modification”

January 7, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio Naturalbuild has completed the reconstruction of Xinfan Market in Huzhen Town, Zhejiang Province, with a design that aims to help facilitate visitors’ return to wet markets in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns. A series of easily customisable steel booths were designed for the new market in order to encourage the random adjustments that

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Foster + Partners shelters subterranean art gallery with pyramidal roofscape

January 6, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Four peaks clad in weathering steel cover the underground galleries at the Datong Art Museum, which British architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed in northern China. The 32,000-square-metre art museum, which is now open in Datong, is designed by Foster + Partners as an “urban living room” with facilities for both artists and the

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