Architecture Magazine

Architecture Magazine

Architecture Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Qianhai MCC Technology Building

The project is located in shenzhen, China. Inspired by elegant curves of fancy carp, the designers abstract the smooth curves into tall and straight lines to build the facade of tower building. Independent of the tower building, the podium building integrates commercial and office spaces. Moreover, it has a commercial display space with terrace on the top.

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Beyond 100 Years

The main concept of Beyond 100 Years is the pursue of beauty. Beauty includes the beauty of nature, of traditional arts, of culture, and people learn the beauty through five senses. The designer adds in the sixth element, individual, to show the beauty of spirits in traditional Japanese garden. As for the site selection, Asia New Bay Area centers the power of culture, which adds in the power of value to create extraordinary quality.

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Bzj

The second facade covers the upper part of the factory, giving the heavy concrete structure a certain lightness. While uncovered structural elements and exposed infrastructure in the lofty spaces remind its occupants of the industrial environment, the mid-century modern furniture and playful graphic artworks create an almost lofty atmosphere. The perforated facade is refracting the light at different angles according to the position of the sun, blocking out the heat while adding dynamics to the space and offering the occupants privacy from the outside.

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Greenland Harper

The project stands at the core area of Wuhan's Yangtze River main axis region. The district has a total land area of about 134 hectares and is planned to construct more than 30 super high-rise buildings with the height of over 150 m along the river. Considering the architecture should harmonize with the city, the design adopts a simple and majestic facade to echo the urban surface of the area and improve the urban taste. Harper Riverside introduces an advanced mode of multi house types, an innovative frame-core tube structure and the concept of sustainable residence.

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Wuhan Liantou Tower

Phoenix, the god bird and local cultural symbol, is the inspiration for the tower crown, podium roof, and entrance facade design. Elegant, simple, and phoenix identity are designed for this local state-own client. Grand arrival lobby, auditorium, exhibition space, staff activity zones, reception atriums, sky garden are evenly distributed in the building to promote internal communication and energy. Delicate facade articulations make this building stands out from the surrounding to proudly present the client's pursuit of quality and exquisites.

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Pingjiang Wonder

As the first building amid the city complex turned from old town to the city gateway, the bookstore was expected to merge into the different development stages naturally. Explorations based on Negation Logic oriented the design to a delicately-cut crystal. Being divided horizontally into 2 parts, the upper part of the building was faceted and battered the sliced facades by a vertical angle of 4-6 degrees towards the sky, as a new town pioneer, while the transparent lower part was fit into the human scale for better integration into the culturally unique streets.

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