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You may have seen him in Xidan the other day, walking his Chinese cabbage on a leash, or at the Midi Music Festival, or any of the many places performance artist Han Bing appears for a spontaneous interjection of the avant-garde into ordinary life. Philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote ...
The nest is in one of Beijing's most fashionable areas Jianwai SoHo is a fashionable office and residential property development in central Beijing, full of young people who spend their time working hard and frequenting cafes and nail salons. But it is also home to art curator ...
CHINA IS UNDERGOING A REVOLUTION OF A DIFFERENT KIND IN THE 21ST CENTURY. THE WORLD'S MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY IS NOT JUST ON THE MOVE, IT IS HURTINGINTO TGE FUTURE AT BREAKNECK SPEED, AS AN ENTIRE NATION OF FACTORY WORKERS IS BEING TRANSEORMED INTO ONE OF CONSUMERS AND ENTREPRENEUR...
Zhang Xin, CEO and co-founder of SOHO China, in the exhibition hall at the office where her latest developments are showcased. Building on her Masters degree in economic development from Cambridge University as well as experience with Goldman Sachs, thirty-seven year old Zhang ...
SOHO China, the developer that has become a major patron of cutting-edge architecture, has hired Iroje Architects and Planners to design Chaowai SOHO, a new shopping and office complex in Beijing s central business district. Chaowai SOHO will sit across the street from SOHO Shang ...
SOHO China signed a contract with Kempinski Hotels & Resorts on Friday, inviting the world's leading property management company to manage Commune by the Great Wall, a renowned award-winning boutique hotel developed by SOHO China. According to international common practice, both ...
Ai Weiwei, Tilted House, 2000. Concrete and bronze, Soho New Town, Beijing. Courtesy of Soho China Ltd., Soho Art Collection. "An inquiry into the inner meaning of specifically modern life and its products, into the soul of the cultural body [ ] must seek to solve the equation ...
South China Morning Post, Thursday, July 8, 2004 Beijing is buying back as well as auctioning off undeveloped sites worth hundreds of billions of Yuan Andrew K. Collier in Beijing Across from Beijing's most famous bar street is the shell of an apartment building topped by what ...
Beijing A serendipitous discovery of bamboo. A couple of surprises awaited Japanese architect Shigeru Ban when he was among the twelve Asian architects invited to design villas as part of an experimental hotel development known as the Commune by the Great Wall. Looking for ...
Tucked away in a mountain valley outside Beijing, the Commune by the Great Wall is a break from the norm on China's contemporary hotel scene. Recently selected as one of Conde Nast Traveller's Hot in the world - the only one in China - the Commune is a designer hamlet of 11 ...
Airport Designer: Chien Hsueh-Yi (Tai Wan) Photographer: Satoshi Asakawa Classification: boutique hotel Location: Great Wall, Beijing Size: 603m2 Structure: steel, concrete Because of the special historical and environmental significance of the site, our first principle was to ...
Five Chinese women: Some are smart, rich, and running the show; others just want a piece of the booming economy. THE MAOIST SLOGAN "WOMEN HOLD UP HALF THE SKY" has adorned the walls of buildings in China for more than 50 years. Indeed, the Communist Party's official support for ...
China's transformation isn't just political and economic -- it's physical. As JOHN BARBER reports from Beijing and Shanghai, the country has become a laboratory for freewheeling architecture on a scale unseen since the Bauhaus The epicentre of the biggest building boom in human ...
"The sales of our two projects have taking up 65% of CBD, and whom I can compete with?" says Pan Shiyi. His orientation is just one kilometer around World Trade Bridge, which will not make any change till 2007. On the point of this view, Mr. Pan Shiyi, the president of SOHO China...
A new development in Beijing's Central Business District promises an exciting collaboration between SOHO China Ltd and Peter Davidson and Lab Architects. "We're interested in the notion of emergence. With emergence, you get something out that you didn't put in." -- Peter Davidson...
FOR a while, it was looking like the Wild Wild East here. After essentially sealing the country off from foreign architects for much of the 20th century, the Chinese government kicked off the 21st by turning itself into the biggest single patron of avant-garde architecture in the ...
"You wouldn't do a building like this for a developer in Australia. They'd just say, 'Let's make it vertical, let's make everything the same'. Here, people are not trying to find reasons not to do things. They're actually trying to find how to do it." PETER DAVIDSON Peter ...
People view models of SOHO Shangdu, a major property project in Beijing's Central Business District. Its developer took full advantage of the market vacuum caused by the land transfer system reshuffle to sell the properties. [China Business Weekly] While other developers in ...
"Experiment is the character of China today-from the economic system to the political system to the way of living, the way of doing business, everything is happening for the first time. And that spirit is carried out into the urbanization process," says Zhang Xin. "If you look at ...
The architects behind Federation Square have won a 100 million contract to build a project in Beijing's central business district. The design by Melbourne based company Lab Architecture Studio was chosen by developer Soho China after Lab entered an international competition. Co...
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