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Ningbo has existed as a trade city on the Silk Road for over two thousand years. It has been the origin of the country’s modern garment industry and is now China’s largest clothing manufacturing base
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The Pixel Facade
Heatherwick Studio has been asked to design a forty-storey hotel with three hundred rooms for a district of Hong Kong - part of the historic center where preserved buildings of XIX - early XX centuries
The Second Youth of Hotel Georgia
Hotel Georgia is a project recently completed by the IBI Group in Canada, Vancouver, which is a multidisciplinary consulting firm offering services in four areas of practice; Urban Land, Facilities, Transportation, and Intelligent Systems
New CBD for Shanghai
Benoy has won an international urban design competition for the Lujiazui Pudong Qiantan ES4 Precinct Core Area, located in the south of Shanghai. The client, Lujiazui Group, have been responsible for the development and implementation of Shanghai’s Pudong Central Business District since the 1990s
At the Beira Lake Shore
Boston-based practice Safdie Architects has been selected to design a luxury residential tower in Sri Lanka. To be developed by Indocean Developers Private Ltd. on a two-acre parcel of land opposite Beira Lake in Colombo, the 88-storey residential building will be the tallest structure in Colombo and Safdie’s first project in Sri Lanka
91 Hectares for Pilgrims
The number of pilgrims performing the annual hajj to Mecca (Saudi Arabia), is close to 4 million people. It is expected that in the coming years to carry Umrah (minor pilgrimage) in the country will come to about 5 million believers
Maintower of South Africa
Johannesburg-based architects @126 have released designs for the tallest building in Africa. The 110-storey structure is part of triple-tower development in Tshwane, South Africa, collectively known as Centurion Symbio-City
The Dream that Comes True
Dream is creeping ever closer to reality in Seoul as architects and engineers continue to develop their extravagant concepts for the Yongsan International Business District, a 3.4 million sq. m scheme for development consortium Dreamhub Project Financial Investment Co
Like Father, Like Son
The counterpart to Kenzo Tange’s One Raffles Place Tower One in Singapore’s Central Business District has now been completed. Designed in a partnership between Kenzo’s son Paul Noritaka Tange of Tange Associates and SAA Architects, the sparkling form erupts from the urban scene, taking the diagonal planes of its crystalline external arrangement from the spacing of the windows in its partner building
Chinese Shell
International architecture practice, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects has unveiled their scheme designs for the World Trade Centre paid competition project in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, Central Eastern China. The 462,750 sq m project, commissioned by Hangzhou Duonaohe Real Estate Co., Ltd consists of four towers, with the tallest being 62-floors connected via a common retail podium
