Une série étonnante par la photographe anglaise Catherine Hyland, avec ce parc d’attraction et ce terrain abandonné, situé en Chine. Un projet de parc touristique stoppé en plein développement en 1998 puis laissé à l’abandon. A découvrir en images et en vidéo dans la suite.
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La cabinet d’architecture Studio WXY basé à New York et Weidlinger ont remporté ce concours pour la construction du pont de la rivière Nanhe Paysage à Xinjin County, en Chine. Un impressionnant pont rouge traversant la rivière en 2 routes entrelacées.
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Découverte du travail et du talent de Shan Jiang, un illustrateur qui travaille pour l’agence Ilovedust Ltd. depuis 2005. Une sélection de visuels variés avec un style intéressant. Ses créations colorés, détaillées et fraîches sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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A triangulated glass and steel restaurant sits beside a river in a remote forested gorge in southern China.
Designed by Liu Chongxiao, the Tianmen Mountain Restaurant is located at the foot of a ravine leading down from the top of a mountain popular with sightseers.
The restaurant is constructed from triangular panels of alternating timber and glass strips that allows diners a view of the surrounding landscape.
The building is raised off the ground on steel feet to prevent flooding and gives access to the river via an external staircase.
Tianmen Mountain forms a national forest park near the town of Guilin and also contains a historic temple.
Other mountainside projects from the Dezeen archive include a red-striped health centre in the Spanish Sierra de Gardor mountains, a concrete house in the Alps and a steeply pitched house in the Pyrenees.
Photography is by Deng Xixun, Liu Chongxiao, He Rong and Song Ya.
Here’s some more information from the architect:
Tianmen Mountain Restaurant by Liu Chongxiao
Located on riverside opposite the peach blossom island which is a fantastic sight point in Tianmen Mountain scenic of Guilin, the restaurant was oriented not as a building but a special viewfinder.
The concept is to create unique experience through combine the natural environment with the manmade boundary surface.
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The 627-square-meters interior space contains repast space, kitchen and toilet. The ground floor is elevated to respond the change of water levels.
On the restaurant’s interior, the steel beams support roof and the beams also accommodate several strip -shaped clerestory windows which bring in natural light and view from outside. A series of different shaped shelves made of local fir looks warm and vernacular. The building looks like a super window for overall view.
Observing the exterior facade of the building from various angles, through the architectural interplay of composition of solid and void, one could sense a mixture of architectural exterior membrane interacting with the nearby bamboo grove, mountain and the materiality of interior space.
Once entering the building, one’s perception is surrounded by the combined power of building materiality, natural lighting and adjacent landscape. This new sense is generated by the juxtaposition of the building merging with the natural surroundings.
While the rain falling in drops, there was a soft, hushed secondary light around the warm interiority which constructed by fir, and the beautiful scene of river rise gleaming…Everything, the water, the air, sound, material presences, textures…calmed people’s heart. The sense of expectation that filled them while they were sitting there.
Architect: Liu Chongxiao
Client: Guilin Zijiang Danxia Tourism Co. LTD
Location: Guilin, China
Planning team: Jiang bo, Mo Keli, Wang Chao
Design team: Liu Chongxiao, Li When, He Rong, Fan Yi, Zhang Yue, Wu Xi, Ren Sijie
Project area: 627 square meters
Project Year: 2011
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American architect Daniel Libeskind has completed a media centre for the City University of Hong Kong.
The Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre houses laboratories, theatres, and classrooms for the school’s departments of computer engineering and media technology.
Like much of Libeskind’s body of work, the centre’s faceted volume shoots upward into a sharp point.
Glazed segments wrap around the building’s exterior while intersecting bands of lighting slice through the ceilings of the interior.
The media centre is slated to open in October.
Daniel Libeskind is best known for his Jewish Museum in Berlin as well as masterplanning the World Trade Center site, currently under construction in New York. See all our posts about Libeskind here.
See more stories about Hong Kong buildings here.
Photography is by Gollings Photography.
Here’s some more information provided by the architect:
THE RUN RUN SHAW CREATIVE MEDIA CENTRE
The Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre for the City University of Hong Kong will provide facilities that will enable the University to become the first in Asia to offer the highest level of education and training in the creative media fields. The Centre will house the Centre for Media Technology and the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology.
Address: City University of Hong Kong, Cornwall Street, Kowloon Tong
Technical Details
» Steel-reinforced concrete
» 263,000 square feet
Creative Team:
Design: Studio Daniel Libeskind
Joint Venture Partner: Leigh & Orange Ltd. (Hong Kong)
Structural Engineer: ARUP (London and Hong Kong)
Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Engineer: ARUP
Geotechnical/Civil Engineer: ARUP
Civil Engineering, Specialists, Environmental, IT & Communications, Audio Visual, Acoustics, Fire, Building Innovation, Traffic Engineering: ARUP (Hong Kong)
Contractor: China Resources Construction
Landscape Architect: ADI Limited (Hong Kong)
Facilities:
» Two sound stages (2,200 sq ft and 5,400 sq ft)
» Two THX screening rooms, one with dubbing facilities
» Three additional screening rooms
» Virtual reality immersive research lab
» Box-in-box sound recording studio
» Television studio
» Computer labs and classrooms for production and research
» Multipurpose theater
» Flexible event and exhibition spaces
» Three lecture rooms
» Wood /metal shop
» Electrical shop
» Restaurant
» Café
» Landscaped garden
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L’artiste Liu Bolin est connu pour ses peintures qu’il effectue sur son propre corps pour se camoufler. Après s’être mis en situation dans la série Invisible Man, ce dernier s’est attaqué à une peinture urbaine avec ce graffiti de New York. Plus d’images dans la suite.
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The Shanghai office of Chinese architecture studio Taranta Creations features a staircase within a labia-like orifice and a floor that doubles as a desk.
Above photograph is by Shen Qiang of Shen Photo.
Upstairs, the entire floor plane is used as a work surface, with seating contained inside four large voids.
Taranta Creations designed the space, called Red Town Office, for its own staff.
The staircase joining the two levels is painted red on the inside and silver on the outside.
Above photograph is by Shen Qiang of Shen Photo.
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Photography is by Fay Wu, apart from where otherwise stated.
The information that follows is from Taranta Creations:
Red Town Office
The design of Taranta Creations his own office space is a reflection of the ongoing creative process within the studio.
The upper floor is constructed as one continuous desk in which four sitting areas are cut out.
This large ‘work floor’ invites the designers to use the space for walking, sketching, meeting, modelling, thinking, drafting, sitting and relaxing.
This kind of informal interpretation of office space encourages cross-pollination between the different projects and disciplines.
The upper floor is connected to the lower floor by a ‘water drop’ in which the staircase is placed.
Design team: Enrico Taranta, Giorgio Radojkovic, Juriaan Calis.
Location: Red Town Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China.
Project year: 2010
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Située entre l’art, l’urbanisme et le paysagisme, Martha Schwartz Partners a pensé le jardin pour le “Xi’an International Horticultural Exhibition 2011″ en Chine. Avec des perspectives forcées et des jeux de mirroirs, l’ensemble des visuels du jardin sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Le cabinet d’architecture allemand Logon a pensé la structure de ce musée du verre à Shanghai. La ville cherchant à devenir un centre culturel mondial, ce musée fait parti des 100 musées que veut construire la ville chinoise en une décennie. Plus de visuels dans la suite.
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Photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro has sent us these photographs documenting growing high-rise cities in Asia.
Above and top: Busan, South Korea
The Natural series illustrates high-rise buildings situated on city peripheries in China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan.
Above: Busan, South Korea
Each photograph depicts the contrasts between the large scale urban developments and the surrounding landscapes.
Above: Busan, South Korea
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Above: Busan, South Korea
Below is some more text explanation from the photographer:
As a visual artist using photography as medium to challenge our appreciation of cities could not resist to the possibility of documenting my perspective of the Asian Metropolis nowadays.
Above: Hiroshima, Japan
In the peripheries of Bejing, Busan, Hiroshima, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Fukuoka, Seoul or Chongqing I discovered the multiple relations of the growing mega city and its surroundings. Somehow, I witnessed the confrontation between nature and the imposing satellite towns.
Above: Hong Kong
In these dehumanized landscapes I pretended to unveil the beauty that unfolds in the city limits of Asia’s new towns.
Above: Hong Kong
At the end, as I did with other photographic works I wished to portray the current changes in the world’s metropolis.
Above: Hong Kong
I truly believe that cities transform with the passage of time same as human beings.
Above: Hong Kong
The more aware we are of these changes and the fragil environments that they generate the more we will be capable of understanding ourselves.
Above: Hong Kong
While living in Cairo, Egypt I decided to travel to those Asian cities with a large amount of city developments and potentially vertical.
Above: Chongqing, China
My eyes were too accommodated in the horizontal new towns in the desert.
Above: Chongqing, China
I needed to challenge myself and search for new towns with a heavy concentration of structures in the city outskirts.
Above: Chongqing, China
At a first stage I selected Chongqing, Beijing, and Hong Kong. In a second trip I have traveled to South Korea, followed by Japan and later Thailand, and Malaysia. Previously I photographed other cities such as Manila, Macau, or Taipei.
Above: Chongqing, China
All the images were captured in an unplanned way and under the effects of the jet lag. I normally walked for hours in the margins where the metropolis meets the wilderness.
Above: Chongqing, China
Once in Hong Kong I even walked from the airport to the city and experienced the suburbs at a first hand. My strategy was to take any form of public transportation which would take me to the last station. From there, I got lost with the camera in purpose with no map or GPS. For the coming days I would cover the rest of the stations until I covered the city perimeter.
Above: Chongqing, China
This series of photographs that I entitled “Natural” are a product of pure enjoyment and unpredictable visual challenge.
Above: Chongqing, China
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