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By Clifford A. Pearson Capturing nature has obsessed Chinese artists for thousands of years, from landscape painters evoking leaf-dappled scenes to architects framing exquisite garden views. In that spirit, Yung Ho Chang and his firm, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu, designed Split ...
Naomi R. Pollock, AIA Tokyo architect Riken Yamamoto is no stranger to large-scale master plans. In Japan, Yamamoto is an expert at creating campuses from scratch and turning tired urban districts into cutting-edge housing blocks. But the 7.5-million-square-foot Beijing Jian Wai ...
China is a nation undergoing rapid economic growth and modernization. The Great Wall is a symbol of the country s millennia-old history and heritage. One doesn t expect to encounter these two very different worlds in the same place. Yet just a few hundred meters from the Great ...
As China's Parliament meets to amend the communist country's constitution to protect private property rights, China's newly rich are abandoning apartments in communal blocks and moving into trendy duplex apartments and suburban villas. With banks ready to offer 70 percent low...
By John Ridding, Editor and Publisher, Financial Times Asia This bold Chinese pioneer tells John Ridding how she left the Cultural Revolution and the sweatshops of Hong Kong to thrive in banking and Beijing property development. The Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, so the rumour ...
The demand among Hong Kong buyers for homes in Beijing is on the rise, but buying is proceeding slowing because of the distance between the two cities, property consultants said. Compared with Shenzhen and Shanghai, Beijing is not a preferred option at present, they said. That ...
Zhang Xin, Chinese real estate businesswoman and co-CEO of SOHO China, won the 2004 Mont Blanc Arts Patronage Award recently, in recognition of her efforts to promote the development of contemporary architecture in Asia. Last week, the award ceremony was held at the Commune by ...
Developer Pan Shiyi is bringing color to China's drab homes and offices TIMON WEHRLI/RED DOG STUDIO FOR TIME CROSSROADS: Pan's projects are both good-looking and functional; and while he uses local materials, the final buildings are global in flavor When Pan Shiyi first ...
ZHANG XIN, WEARING a colourful sheer shirt, breezes through Vong with the confidence of a movie star at a press conference. She is having tea with a statuesque friend and her PR consultant, but it looks more like a powwow among the glamour elite. Well. Maybe it is. It is a long ...
The Commune by the Great Wall is an ambitious attempt to create a distinctive voice for contemporary architecture in China. Ricky Burdett reports (Ricky Burdett is the director for city planning program at London School of Economics). Photography by Todd Eberle. To write almost ...
Beijing developer Soho China says rents in the capital are too high to sustain and may see a sharp correction. Chairman and co-chief executive Pan Shiyi said Beijing property prices were affordable but rents had reached unreasonable levels. "Rents in Beijing are unreasonable and ...
Rents on luxury residential housing in Beijing are too high and could fall as much as 60 per cent, according to Pan Shiyi. Chairman of Beijing-based developer Soho China. Pan said in Hong Kong yesterday that luxury housing rents were more than double the mortgage instalments paid ...
12 Asian architects were invited to take an experimental journey in designing a new villa-hotel complex situated next to the Great Wall of China. Have you ever thought about collecting architectural works together in one place? Architecture is quite big compared to other objects. ...
SEEN from afar, the "Bamboo House" villa resembles the crown worn by Chinese emperors, the bamboo partitions at its center like the tassels that hung over the imperial forehead. The villa is composed of ceilings, floor and glass walls, but its partitions are of bamboo, allowing ...
China's new generation of industrialists and entrepreneurs banded together yesterday to launch a symbolic anti-Sars campaign. The event was unprecedented,given that the Communist Party still frowns on public gatherings which it has not sponsored. With the beating of drums,more ...
Our car pulls off the Badaling Highway and heads on to a private road that winds through the Chinese countryside, the Great Wall rising and falling along the hill line in the distance. All of a sudden a swatch of modernist houses can be seen scattered over the snow-covered valley...
Detail is a well-known professional architectural magazine in the world, published both in German and English. In its May issue, one of the houses at the Commune by the Great Wall, a project developed by SOHO China, Bamboo Wall is covered in great details.
SOHO New Town is currently the best known property in Beijing and Pan Shiyi is Beijing's most renowned developer. Located just east of the China World Trade Center, SOHO New Town is made up of a group of colorful skyscrapers. Walking among the buildings, one can always find new ...
Some people say architecture is like a solid form of music. Others say it is a philosophic poem, lingering at the convergence of technology and art, rationality and sensibility. Today, the villas at the Commune by the Great Wall, with their modest architectural footprints, ...
Yesterday afternoon, the well-known couple Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi arrived at the Beijing Capital International Airport carrying the 'Special Prize to an individual patron of architectural works'. On Sept. 7, the Commune by the Great Wall, developed by Beijing Redstone Industrie, ...
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
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