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It was the afternoon of Feb. 29th, Shanghai, the lecture hall of Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning was packed by the Chinese students and architects attending one of A+U’s China serial lectures, given by two Japanese architects, Tsukamoto Yoshiharu of Atelier Bow-Wow and Oki Sato of NENDO. A+U’s earlier China lectures, by Toyo Ito, Ole Scheeren and Alberto Campo Baeza, shared the same case.
In the 1980s and the early 1990s, China’s open policy helped bring to Chinese architectural profession information about architecture outside …

UF Soft R&D Center consists of three inter-connected buildings. Two courtyards arise in between the buildings, which crete more touch of nature within the architecture buildings. The project focuses on the whole concept of the office, which embraces working, resting and communication functions. Instead of adoptiong the traditional office design, such as the design of corridors, which require its users to commute before the communication can take place , we design this office so that its structure supports communication an commutation to happen spontaneously. Corresponding to different team working styles …

This is a house that Qingyun Ma designed and built for his father on his homeland.Jade Valley in Lantian,located southeast of Xi’an,is the archaeological site of the prehistoric Lantian man.It is also where the greatest poet from Tang Dynasty,Wang Wai,built his second home.To build a house for himself(or parents,being the closest kinship)is dangerously euphoric for an architect.In this position,an architect’s interio and exterior are forced to collide.It is either a fairy tale where no conflict is allowed,or a hide-out where antagonism is consciously avoided.But the process of designing is not …

zaha (16  July  2009,  Hong  Kong)  SOHO  China  has  unveiled  the  innovative  model  with unconventional  features  of Chaoyangmen SOHO  III  in  the  showroom  of  the  project  on East  2nd Ring Road  in Beijing. The  design  is  the work  of world  famous  architect  Zaha Hadid.
 
Zaha Hadid  is a British architect described by Chairman of SOHO China, Pan Shiyi, as one “having tremendous creativity”. She worked with SOHO China in 2003 on the logistics port  “SOHO City”, which has  impressed  the entire architectural community  in China.  In 2004,  Zaha  was  awarded  the  …

The architectural market in China is one of the most dynamic in the world: As many as “41 super-tall towers” (in other words high-rises that are over 300 meters tall) are currently being built in the People’s Republic. Yet, private architectural companies are comparatively new to China – only since 1994 has the establishment of private architectural firms been permitted there. As late as the 1990s, architects from abroad seeking a joint venture partner still found themselves having to negotiate with one of the over 10,000 state-run design institutes, such …