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[by Chinese Architecture | 26 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 1,037 views]
About StandardArchitecture

standardarchitecture is a leading new generation design firm engaged in practices of planning, architecture, landscape, and product design. Based on a wide range of realized buildings and landscapes in the past five years, it has emerged as the most critical and realistic practice among the youngest generation of Chinese architects and designers.
Consciously distance themselves from many of the other “typical” young generation architects who are swallowed by a trend of noise making and media feeding, the office remain detached in a time of media frenzy and their focus is consistently …

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[by Chinese Architecture | 20 Nov 2009 | One Comment | 1,009 views]
Vanke “AN” Club House, Suzhou

The club is formed by a folding wall of 500M long, which also encloses 13 separating courtyards. A delicate bias cuts through the building and guides people to enjoy the experience of “a different view with every step” within the spaces and landscapes. Each span has an irregular shape, and different spans integrate together and form a kind of introvert space; the transverse bridges cut the spans into spaces with different functions, such as interiors, courtyards, atrium, water and bridges, which reinterpreted the Suzhou tastes in a different way.

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[by Chinese Architecture | 25 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 424 views]
“Dancing Books Tower”, CRLand Wuhan

Design 2007/9-2007/12

The Dancing Books Tower are situated in a densely populated downtown area near Hongshan Plaza of the historic district of Wuchang, with Yangtze River about two Kilometers to the south, Dong Hu Lake 1.5 km to the north, and the well known Huang-He Lou Watch Tower about 5 km to the west.
The project is comprised of two160-meter skyscrapers and twelve exclusively high-end courtyard houses at the foot of the towers. Of the two skyscrapers, one is a one unit per floor apartment, with a typical floor about 400 square …

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[by Chinese Architecture | 25 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 274 views]
Urban Backyard, Beijing

Located on Chengfu Road between Beijing University and Tsinghua University, urban backyard is renovated from part of a 10-module typical factory space. About 280 square meters in its size and measures at 12m(width) x 24m(depth) x 8m(height), the space occupies 2 modules of the overall 10 module industrial space.