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Melbourne's Federation Square was a headache to build, but it's all worthwhile, now. Melbourne's reputation for innovative architecture-like CBD projects Federation Square and the redevelopment of Spencer Street Station- is being used to generate export revenue. The firm of ...
Image Courtesy Lab Architecture Lab Architecture Studio of Melbourne, Australia, will design a new a 170,000 square-meter office and retail mixed-use development at the western edge Beijing s Central Business District. The new development, called SOHO Shang Du, will be adjacent ...
High profile architects and real estate developers are accused of using China as a place of experimentation. Zhang Xin, Co-CEO of SOHO China, the country's most successful real estate developer, asks: What's wrong with that? Every creative industry needs to experiment. Zhang Xin ...
BEIJING -- Inside a tent amid new minimalist apartment towers, Chinese film stars and business elite mingled with Western diplomats. But the real draw of the evening were the hosts, building tycoons Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin. Ms. Zhang swept into the room wearing a Mao suit in ...
Zhang Xin,co-chairman of leading real estate firm SOHO China,has been chosen as one of "The Stars of Asia" for 2004. The award,given by US-based Business Week,recognizes "25 leaders at the forefront of change" in Asia. In a feature article in its July 12 issue,Business Week ...
"Within 10 days of meeting Pan Shiyi, in 1994, I decided to marry him, even though he was newly divorced, was not so rich, and was balding," recalls Zhang Xin, co-chief executive of SOHO China Co Ltd. The firm is today one of the region's leading real estate development companies...
Ms.Zhang Xin Co-CEO of SOHO China,is chosen as one of "The Stars of Asia"for 2004.The award,given by Business Week,recognizes "25 leaders at the Forefront of Change"in Asia.In a reature article of its July 12 issue,Business Week praises Zhang Xin and other "Star Entrepreneurs"in ...
Two years ago, Zhang Xin won the special prize at the 2002 Venice Biennale for her role in promoting the work of 12 Asian architects in Commune By The Great Wall. It is certainly a space confident of its position on the landscape. For some months leading up to the Grand Opening, ...
With more top world architects winning the bidding for public projects Chinese cities,more people are debating and probing into the apparent shortcomings of China's own architects,as Lin Jinghua finds out. With Paul Andreu's "Eggshell" - the National Grand Theatre, still under ...
Stunning surprises, economic dynamism, and a bit of heartbreak -- Asia has experienced all of them this year. Just rewind the tape and you get the idea. Pundits were blown away by the electoral triumph of India's National Congress Party led by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow ...
Beijing Zen purity in the shadow of the Great Wall The Great Wall of China was not a singular enterprise. It was built in sections by different dynasties over centuries, partly as a fortification and partly as a highway for men and materials. Some of it dates back to 2000 years ...
Jianwai SOHO, a luxury commercial development in Beijing's central business district, held on Saturday the opening ceremony for its shopping streets. The event attracted more than 10,000 artists, residents and workers. The development has 700,000 square meters of residential and ...
The Year of Monkey is widely believed as a year of fortune in China. For real estate developers, the belief is more stable. Pan Shiyi, chairman of China's leading real estate development firm, SOHO China, wrote only a few days after the Spring Festival, Chinese new year, that ...
Growing numbers of mainland property developers like Shanghai Forte and Beijing Capital Land are seeking alternative ways of raising capital at home or abroad to get around a tough edict by Beijing six months ago to shut down a possible property bubble. Some companies are even ...
In Soho China.s short track record, the Beijing-based company has succeeded in creating a brand name and erecting signature buildings-all in an urban environment notorious for its communist uniformity. Among many who now vie to define Beijing s fast-changing skyline, Soho is ...
In the fast pace of Beijing's social whirl, how is an urbanite to do something different - to stand out from the crowd as a person with tastes that are the height of sophistication? The answer may lie in what is probably Beijing's most talked about architectural development: the ...
Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin -- CEOs, SOHO Chinese real-estate tycoon Pan Shiyi is given to plain speaking. At a recent World Economic Forum seminar on China s rising private sector, other panelists, economists and academics used theories and formulae to explain why a market economy ...
It is hard to miss Jianwai SOHO from anywhere in Beijing. Nestled on a prime 700,000-square-metre site facing the China World Trade Centre, the striking white lattice-designed residential and commercial complex is imposing, even among luxury developments. Jianwai consists of 18 ...
Beijing-based SOHO China is enlarging its property portfolio by acquiring two projects in the capital. Chairman Pan Shiyi said the company was also studying new plans to seek a listing in Hong Kong after a failed attempt to secure a dual listing in New York and Hong Kong last ...
What happens when 12 young Asian architects get together to create a self-contained commune? With the first phase completed, Andrew Dembina ventures into the hills surrounding Beijing to find out the result that everyone s been talking about Beijing has become home to one of ...
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