Pritzker-prize winner Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA has selected a young architect from China to assist her with a yearlong design project for victims of the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
With iSQUARE, a 53,000-square-meter retail/dining/entertainment complex, Rocco S.K. Yim used lively architecture to make the journey to a “sky lobby” 26 meters above the street in Hong Kong.
In response to a community’s need for a new structurally sound elementary school, Beijing-based Trace Architecture Office (TAO) designed an academic complex of reinforced, poured-in-place concrete and wood.
Located in the Tuen Mun district of Hong Kong, EcoPark is one element in the government’s strategy to promote and support local industries that engage in environmentally conscious activities.
Taiwanese architect and 2011 Curry Stone Prize winner Hsieh Ying-Chun helps a Chinese village rebuild for the better after an earthquake, using local expertise and materials.
Wang Shu, a 48-year-old Chinese architect whose work explores the intersection of modern technologies and traditional sensibilities, has won the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the prize. Wang is the 37th person to win the prize and the first from China.
Program: A 136,000-square-foot, 121-bedroom resort on a 65-acre private nature reserve. Located about two and a half hours from Shanghai, in Zhejiang Province, the project draws on African and Asian construction styles with conference facilities, a spa, three swimming pools, horse stables, a clubhouse, a restaurant, a teahouse, and a yoga pavilion. Design concept and solution: Fusing nature and luxury, the architects wanted the reserve's guest rooms to feel like an extension of the landscape. The rooms take the form of individual tree-top villas (concentrated on the west side of the site) and huts (primarily on the east side), all
A series of gardens and buildings housing the Xi'an International Horticultural Exposition 2011. The three main elements—the 37,674-square-foot Guangyuan Entrance, the 53,820-square-foot exhibition pavilion, and the 43,055-square-foot greenhouse—form the backbone of a 37-hectare park.
A one-story, 9,688-square-foot sales pavilion for a Hefei condo developer, in which sales spaces—from reception and exhibition to contract signing and administration—are interspersed with themed courtyards featuring bamboo, flowers, water, or camphor trees.