Showing posts with label Asia. Show all posts
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Toyo Ito. World Games Stadium


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  • The solar panels covering the vast external face of the stadium are able to generate most of the power required for its own operation, as well as additional power that can be saved.
  •   The solar panel roof will produce 80% of the electricity in the nearby residential areas


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“To me, it is more of a snake than a dragon. A wavy snake body with broad front and narrow hind would be the most precise metaphor. Snakes aren’t my favorite animal but I am a snake according to the Chinese horoscope.”
- Toyo Ito. Architect

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"it unfolds slowly to the visitor and is as much about connecting — physically and metaphorically — with the public spaces around it as it is about the intensity of a self-contained event"

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Herzog & de Meuron. Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest)


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  • All thousands of tons of steel were made in China, making the stadium the largest steel structure in the world.
  • for the design, the team studied chinese ceramics

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Why does a Chinese bowl or a Chinese window have this kind of pattern? Maybe the Chinese people like things to appear in this irregular way, but underneath there are very clear rules. The Bird's Nest developed in this way.
 - Li Xinggang, head architect of CADG

 :   :  : ::: THE CRITIC
Although China’s burgeoning wealth owes much to its export industries, for the Olympics the country has been content to play the reverse role, buying the most futuristic architecture that the rest of the world has to offer, rather than showcasing native talent.

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ASYMPTOTE. The YAS Hotel

 
  
 

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It's the first newly constructed building to cross over a Formula 1 race track

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“a perfect union and harmonious interplay between elegance and spectacle. The search here was inspired by what one could call the ‘art’ and poetics of motor racing, specifically Formula 1, coupled with the making of a place that celebrates Abu Dhabi as a cultural and technological tour de force.”
Hani Rashid. Asymptote Architect

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"the hotel seems built for speed, in particular of the machines cruising by and under it, justifying both its forms (including the odd split solved by the grid structure) and its very existence."

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Steven Holl. Lynked Hybrid

map: Beijing, China











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Named by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) as the “Best Tall Building Overall” for 2009


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“It is only in the intensification of our cities and the inclusion of mixed urban-public facilities in the sky that the true vibrant, dense cities of the future can be realized. The Linked Hybrid building, perhaps more than any other built project, really does point the way to that future.”

Anthony Wood. CTBUH Executive Director



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The idea of the street high above the city is intended to counteract the sense of isolation that high-rise living usually brings, and to create an incentive for residents to walk around the complex.
Paul Goldberger for The Newyorker. read the article



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OMA by Rem Koolhaas, & Ole Sheeren. CCTV Tower

map: Guanghua Lu, BeijingChaoyang, China An adjacent building in the complex caught on fire by fireworks on Feb 9th 2009, before the building's scheduled completion in May 2009. It was to have the Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel
The fire extinguished: should the building be demolished or rebuilt? Read more




:::THE FACT
- On the bridge where the two leaning legs of the office meet there is a glass floor 525 feet above ground.

:::THE QUOTE
"The project is one of the most visionary since modernism and beyond" Tina di Carlo, assistant curator of architecture and design at the Museum for Modern Art (MoMA)

:::THE CRITIC
"it is a dazzling reinvention of the skyscraper, using size not to dominate but to embrace the viewer." Paul Goldberger for The New Yorker. June 30, 2008. Read the article


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Frank Gehry. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi













Quotes & Facts:


- "The site itself, virtually on the water or close to the water on all sides, in a desert landscape with the beautiful sea and the light quality of the place suggested some of the direction.” —Frank Gehry

- The building site also serves as a manmade breakwater configured to protect the island’s pristine north beach zone
- it's the largest museum in a series of cultural institutions planned as part of the Saadiyat Cultural District
- Tadao Ando, Hadid, Nouvel and Foster projects in same island.

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Jean Nouvel. Louvre Abu Dhabi







QUOTES & FACTS:


- This micro-city requires a micro-climate that would give the visitor a feeling of entering a different world. The building is covered with a large dome, a form common to all civilisations.
This one is made of a web of different patterns interlaced into a translucent ceiling which lets a diffuse, magical light come through in the best tradition of great Arabian architecture.
Water is given a crucial role, both in reflecting every part of the building and acting as a psyche, and in creating, with a little help from the wind, a comfortable micro- climate that will give visitors a feeling of entering a different world.” J.Nouvel
- “Abu Dhabi’s ultimate goal in creating the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and indeed the entire Saadiyat Island Cultural District, is to build a platform for deeper and more meaningful exchange among people from our own region and from all parts of the globe,”. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates.
- a 24,000 sq m complex of pavilions, plazas, alleyways and canals 'evoking the image of a city floating on the sea'. Hovering over the complex will be a form inspired by traditional Arabic architecture: a vast, shallow, perforated dome—some 180 metres in diameter.
- It will feature artworks loaned from several top French museums, including the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, le Centre Pompidou, the Musée de Quai Branly and the Musée Guimet.


click : Saadiyat Island official site

click : "Construction under way on Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi" on bdcnetwork.com 5/26/09

click: "Starchitects Join Abu Dhabi’s Big Cultural Gambit" by Robert Such on Archrecord
5/2007

click : Nouvel's official site
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Zaha Hadid. Performing Arts Center

FACTS
- Abu Dhabi aims to become one of the great cultural centers of the Middle East
- Nouvel, Ando and Ghery museum projects to be built in same Island
- "Ms. Hadid’s design for the performing arts center springs from the complex nature of the site rather than an exploration of cultural memory" (H. Fattah)



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Adrian Smith for SOM. Burj Khalifa. WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING : 818m

click : article "Burj Dubai to open Dec. 2"


UPDATE:
won't open till January 2010. Read article
interview with archictect Adrian Smith by Blair Kamin 1/6/10
Read critic by Christopher Hawthorne for LA Times
read article by Jenkins for The Guardian
"Culture Monster" by C. Hawthorne for LA Times
"The Burj Dubai: New world's tallest building shows that nothing succeeds like excess" by Blair Kamin for Chicago Tribune 
"Adrian Smith, personifies city's global reach" by Blair Kamin for Chicago Tribune
Goldberger Interview at Khaleej Times 

"You don’t build this kind of skyscraper to house people, or to give tourists a view, or even, necessarily, to make a profit. You do it to make sure the world knows who you are"






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I.M.Pei. Bank of China


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