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At the 8th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, Zhang Xin from SOHO China Ltd., with her project Commune by the Great Wall, was awarded the 'Special Prize to an individual patron of architectural works'. The Commune is an avant-garde architectural ...
'Commune by the Great Wall' is not a leftover of Cultural Revolution social engineering. Nor is it a cult gathering to mark the winter solstice. And according to its masterminds, developer couple Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi, it isn't an even faintly ironic nomenclature, although it ...
'Collect the Art of Architecture - Commune by the Great Wall', a mega residential development by the husband-and-wife team of Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, of Redstone Industrie Co Ltd, is a highly-publicized project in China located at the Shuiguan valley in the Beijing suburb of ...
Unlike two years ago, this year's biggest party for the world's architects - International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia - opened in September, to avoid June's hot weather. The theme for this year's exhibition was NEXT. The director of the Biennale spent 10 ...
On September 7th at 5 p.m. Italian time the 8th International Architecture Exhibition NEXT of la Biennale di Venezia opened in the Arsenale section of Venice. Over 190 architectural projects by more than 90 architects were on display at the exhibition, bringing together a ...
"Denis Diderot's New Dressing Gown" Getting off Beijing's Airport Expressway and driving east on either the Third or Fourth Ring Road, you will see the colorful buildings that are part of the SOHO New Town development. SOHO New Town and Jianwai SOHO, both developed by Beijing ...
Culturescape Kultur Landschaft (culture landscape) By disengaging the notion of landscape from its strict association with land and interpreting it a tradition of an understanding of urbanity may open the possibility to find qualities in the existing that lie beyond scientific ...
For centuries, Chinese people have always had Somme the most daring minds as well as magnificent dreams. Ancient Chinese often were self-content, enjoying themselves as in the proverb "take the sky as quilt, and the earth as matting" meaning that the whole world is theirs, that ...
by Mark Graham Every visitor to Beijing marvels at the way ancient palaces and temples are juxtaposed with ultra-modern high-rises. But until the 81-storey China World Tower was completed recently, there was no way of enjoying an unhindered view of the entire metropolis, with its ...
Riken Yamamoto CHAO YANG DISTRICT, four kilometers to the east of the center of Beijing and close to China s World Trade Center, is the site chosen to build a 700,000 square meter complex of high-rise buildings which promotes a new urban model mixing residential use and workspace...
Before the eyes of a western tourist, the reality of life in China as appealing as it is for its inhabitants to take in everything that brings them closer to the west and, as far as architecture is concerned, to its way of understanding the creative process. Today the open wall ...
Young Architects Breathing New Life Into Old Cities; A Hothouse of Ideas As old structures in China's cities are bulldozed to make way for the new, a coterie of Chinese designers are reshaping the urban environment by blending the architectural past with modern-day forms and ...
They are like a human metaphor for the journey of modern China. They were raised in poverty but are now one of the richest couples in Beijing. And it has all happened in such a short space of time. Zhang Xin wears a lacroix dress,wildly patterned in a fabric reminiscent of a ...
"THE SPIRIT OF SOHO CHINA IS ABOUT CREATING A MODERN URBAN METROPOLIS."-ZHANG XIN On Jian Guo Men Boulevard a main thoroughfare that leads west toward the Forbidden City in Beijing dusty construction sites follow bland corporate buildings one after another. But just past the ...
NATIONAL GRAND THEATRE, BEIJING Paul Andreu, France Already nicknamed the duck egg , Beijing s new glass and titanium National Grand Theatre, designed by Paul Andreu, is due for completion later this year. Located next to Tiananmen Square, it comprises a 2 416-seat opera house, a ...
A look at any number of the massive billboards lining the clogged boulevards of the CBD might have you thinking Pan Shiyi co-CEO of SOHO is a martial arts master with the ability to levitate David Copperfield-style sans puppet-strings. His talent for karate chopping through red ...
CHINA/HONG KONG CHINA UPDATE Kempinski Hotels and Resorts, the world s oldest luxury hotel collection, is adding a fourth hotel in China under its management the Commune. Opened in 2002, the boutique hotel is located near the Shuiguan section of the Great Wall, offering sweeping ...
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