Tag Shanghai

22-10-2013

Shanghai Film Museum by COORDINATION ASIA.

Shanghai is the hub of the Chinese filmmaking industry.

07-08-2013

Höweler + Yoon: Sky Court Exhibition Hall in Chengdu

Höweler + Yoon’s Boston studio applied the traditional model of the Chinese courtyard house to the plan for Sky Court Exhibition Hall in Chengdu. Using the shape of this type of building, compact on the outside with an open courtyard on the inside, the architects take advantage of its ability to control temperature to reduce energy consumption. The project falls into the current of contemporary Chinese architecture that draws inspiration from tradition and proposes a new, updated version of it.

26-09-2012

Deshaus: Qingpu Youth Center in Shanghai

The architecture of the Qingpu Youth Centre in Shanghai could be interpreted as the scale model of one the old neighbourhoods of the metropolis, which no longer exist in the new urban planning east of the city. Atelier Deshaus examined the relationship between old and contemporary and came up with its vision of the city in a work that focuses on young people.