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The design of the 2012 London Olympic Stadium, unveiled late last year, evoked a decidely lukewarm response from most people - while it may be sustainable, it certainly lacks style and any kind of “wow” factor. By contrast, nobody can really argue that the design of the main venues for this year’s Games in Beijing […]
Every year for the next 20 years, it is estimated that up to 10 million people will move from China’s countryside to urban areas. This unprecedented migration is placing huge demands on existing cities. To accommodate the new urban population, the Chinese government overnment plans to build 50 new cities by 2020. China’s leaders […]
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It’s projected that over the next few years China’s urban population will grow by 250 million – on average these city dwellers will use three times more energy than their rural counterparts. At the turn of the millennium, China consumed about 8% of the total energy used in the world, more than any nation except […]
Some nicely put together YouTube videos about Beijing’s host of new Olympic buildings have been put together - check out a couple here:
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Yesterday (January 28) China officially unveiled the distinctive, bubble-wrapped National Aquatics Centre, nicknamed the “Water Cube” - more info here.
Image by Daniel Allen
While most eyes in Beijing were fixed on the recent connection between the two arms of Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV tower, workers connected the final bridge of the elegant Grand Moma, or “Linked Hybrid Building,” close to Dongzhimen subway. When the building, designed by US-based Steven Holl Architects and envisaged as a “city within a city”, […]
A few days ago CScout China paid a quick visit to the offices of the Dynamic City Foundation, a small Beijing-based research and design institute founded in 2004 that is focused on the rapid transformation of China’s urban landscape. We met creative director Neville Mars and had a chat about the DCF’s new book, The […]
Over the last two decades China has become known as the factory of the world; “Made in China” has often come to symbolize cheapness, sub-standard quality and lack of originality. More recently however, thanks to a booming economy, political deregulation and social development, China has witnessed the gradual evolution of a free-thinking generation of creative […]
So the Olympic year is finally upon us, as armies of workers toil round the clock to ready Beijing for the legions of foreign and domestic guests expected in 2008. A host of innovative construction projects are now nearing completion that will crown the Chinese capital’s transformation from drab Communist throwback into a modern, affluent […]
Beijing’s controversial Grand Theatre set for public debut.
Seven years after construction began on a site close to Tiananmen Square, work on Beijing’s US$420 million Grand Theatre is finally complete. Persistently dogged by delays, the “Eggshell”, as it has been dubbed by many, is scheduled to host its first live performance at the end of […]
Can sustainable construction help China go greener?
It is projected that over the next few years China’s urban population will grow by 250 million – on average these city dwellers presently use three times more energy than their rural counterparts. Soaring demand for metropolitan living and working space is fueling a booming construction sector, and […]
