idea to dig!
delusional concept for this five-star hotel located in an old quarry town of Songjiang near Shanghai. The resort, currently under construction, will include a 400-bed hotel, a conference room for over a thousand people, restaurants and a multitude of sports facilities and leisure activities (swimming, climbing walls, bungee jumping ...). Hotel Songjiang in itself will rise two stories above the cliff of 100 meters, on two levels and plunge under water or aquarium will house a giant!
Urban Jungle: Utopia or Reality?
To address the overcrowding of Hong Kong, this fantastic and unusual project called "Jungle Urban "the architectural firm Vincent Callebaut proposes to re-domesticate nature and expand the territory of this ultra modern city. The aim is thus to increase the possibilities real estate in the city while also marking a ecological footprint significantly. The new space will be self-sufficient and produce more energy than they consume! Phew, we breathe!
The Beijing Great Wheel
The Ferris wheel Beijing will be the largest Ferris wheel in the world with a height of 208 meters ! This size was chosen to celebrate the 2008 Olympics. A huge attraction, which should be completed by 2009, and which can carry 1,920 passengers at once, or 40 people in 48 different booths! Each amusement ride will last 30 minutes, the time to see (or not see) the great wall is lost in a haze ...
A construction without false notes
This piano-shaped home is situated in Huainan City, Anhui Province. The main building resembles a piano black and stairs, a violin transparent.
Climb the violin
This building used to extravagant display models of development of new areas of the city of Huainan, and try and play on the heartstrings buyers.
MAD IN CHINA
Chinese
This project forms part of the organic delusional from a long line of thinking the founding architect of the Beijing branch of architecture MAD Ma Yangsong 马岩松 on the relationship between architecture and our natural environment.
The 尔多斯 博物馆 Erdos Museum in Inner Mongolia is currently under construction in the middle of the Gobi Desert. Its unusual shape is reminiscent of a heart, both OUTSIDE and inside with her tangled "arteries".
Another crazy project with MAD Absolute Towers Toronto, already nicknamed Marilyn Monroe by locals because of their shapes are very feminine and sensual.
The Twisted Doughnut
In the heart of Beijing, is one of the most emblematic buildings of architectural madness which seizes China.
Still under construction, the tower delusional state television CCTV defies all laws of gravity.
Composed of 10 078 steel rods, high of 234 meters, the towers come and join to form a loop. The Chinese have nicknamed the building "Leaning Tower" or "Twisted Donut". This is the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who designed this building unusual. S ource MSN ph: AP
Towering Inferno
The February 9, 2009 a fire destroyed one building of the new headquarters of Chinese television CCTV in Beijing while the people celebrated the Feast lanterns. The fire was sparked by an illegal fireworks launched from the roof of the tower under construction. A firefighter has died and the tower to house the future Mandarin, a theater and a recording studio was destroyed by fire.
Godzilla
War of the Worlds
A huge yellow dog in the middle of skyscrapers
A tower of 80 meters High-shaped golden dog! There are only a green light from Chinese authorities for this incongruous idea is born. "The building will be bold spectacular, unique, "says architect François Scali, head of the project that could emerge in 2010.
Inside the faithful replica of the bull terrier crazy yellow plastic Aurelius should house a museum of lost worlds and drowned. It would be spread over eight levels supported by large beams is at odds over a backbone structure consisting of two large metal beams embedded in the foot and brought on two concrete columns. For the dog's skin, a translucent resin to capture the light and shine at night. The project was selected for the Universal Exhibition of 2010.
Amid the skyscrapers of Pudong, as a mascot watches over the city, the golden dog, huge, cynical and funny, symbolizes the abandonment and urban wandering, a recurring theme in the work of Aurelius " Warnings and decided it is a protective enclosure, a refuge, a shell and a metaphor for our condition as humans lost on economic issues, globalization, the plundering of our natural resources, "he says , "a dog sitting in the midst of a dramatic and impersonal architecture as a symbol of life."
Dorothy FRENOT " As A House ," the mag Francophone Shanghai
Shanghai World Financial Center
After more than ten years behind in the work, the tallest building in China is now cutting into the already hazy sky dotted skyscrapers of Shanghai.
The opener
The Shanghai World Financial Center , a tower-shaped bottle opener of 492 meters tall (101 stories), has cost nearly a billion dollars (722 million euro) to tycoon Japanese real estate Minoru Mori.
Tower will house conference rooms, a shopping center, hotel, restaurants and should eventually offer 70 floors of office designed to accommodate 12,000 people. An observatory is expected even at the height of the building.
The skyscraper and its panoramic view of the megalopolis is destined to become a major tourist attraction in Shanghai and restore its status as a key international business center (China source information) .
Currently, a single tower in the world is higher than the World Financial Center: Taipei 101 in Taiwan (508 meters high). A skyscraper is even higher under construction in Dubai: Burj Dubai which should reach over 900 meters!
The Shanghai Center
preparations to welcome the Shanghai Center 上海 中心 (Shànghǎi Zhongxin) began August 17, 2008. The term construction originally set for 2010 at the World Expo has been postponed to 2014.
still higher!
The building of 127 floors, 632 meters in height will occupy an area of 380,000 m2 will be built alongside the World Financial Center 492m and 420m which measures Jinmao Tower in Pudong.
Dragon twisted
design dubbed "Dragon" by the architectural firm Gensler was selected in June 2008 among many other projects (the cons) . The building is surrounded by a curtain of glass.
The tower will comprise nine indoor gardens at various levels, located between the main building and the facade of glass, with a height of 10 meters each. A public park will also have its place inside the building. The Shanghai Center is expected to become the new landmark of the city and is one of the largest skyscraper in the world
Tower twisted
With 454 meters high ( 610 meters with antenna), a strange turn twisted Guangzhou is not only one of the tallest buildings in the world, but also the more twisted! Within two years, the Chinese will benefit from its revolving restaurant, located in the top two floors of the building. A garden of 18 hectares, on the ground floor, will complete the assembly, which will accommodate 10 000 visitors per day.
Detour to the future
Different futuristic buildings enliven the plaza around the tower twisted.
The twin towers were the same DNA
Other bizarre towers located Canton (Guangzhou). With a height of 520 meters the twin towers designed by French architect Hervé Tordjman were designed along the lines of the helical shape of DNA.
The technical achievement here lies in the development of an exoskeleton (on structure on the exterior of the building) that allows Twisted Towers to withstand seismic activity. The two buildings should be completed in 2010. ph hypertension
Tower "green" in the Pearl River in Guangzhou (Guangzhou)
The skyscrapers of the twenty-first century ahead even more staggering. But if architects aim higher, they are also more "green" buildings with pharaonic but friendly environment.
is the case in particular the Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou (Canton), China. With its 309 meters, it will probably pale next to the Twin Towers shaped DNA, 432 meters high. But according to its designers, this will be one of the greenest buildings in the world.
The Pearl River Tower was designed by American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). This Giant architecture, originally 10 000 projects including such famous buildings as the Sears Tower in Chicago, claims to its creation in Canton the most efficient in the world.
To feed this tower of 71 floors, occupied by the offices of the China National Tobacco Corporation , architects have developed a cocktail of wind, solar, geothermal energy and hope the tower will be as close as possible energy self-sufficiency. The facade of the skyscraper was designed to amplify the wind speed by 50% to increase energy efficiency of its turbines. Which will provide ventilation, heating and cooling tower. The warm water of the building will also be provided by the sun. Via zdnet.fr. Thierry Noisette.
Tower of East Gate of Suzhou
Completion of this double round scheduled for 2013
Century Plaza de Chongqing
The twin tower in Beijing Fanhai
Ongoing. Height under 505 m.
Additional photos and news on all the towers on the Chinese website: Skyscraper City
List of Skyscrapers of the largest in the world where the majority are located in China :
Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan, (2004), 448 m (508 m mast) World Financial Center in Shanghai, China , (2007), 492 m
Petronas Twin Towers 1 and 2 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia , (1998), 410 m (452 m with antenna)
Sears Tower in Chicago, United States (1974), 442 m (527.3 m with antenna)
Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, China , (1999), 421 m.
Two International Finance Center, Hong Kong, China, (2003), 412 m.
Citic Plaza, Guangzhou (Canton), China (1996), 391 m.
Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, China , (1996), 384 m.
Empire State Building, New York , United States (1931), 381 m (449 m with antenna).
Central Plaza, Hong Kong, China , (1992), 374 m.
Tower Bank of China, Hong Kong , (1989), 369 m.
Burj Al Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirates , (1999), 321 m. Baiyoke Tower II
, Bangkok, Thailand , 343.35
Soaring Dragon
The length of three kilometers and covers an area equivalent to 170 football fields in the form the largest terminal in the world. Inaugurated in February, the building is intended to absorb the flood of hundreds of thousands of tourists expected to Beijing airport for the Olympics.
Designed by architect British architect Norman Foster, the terminal construction has mobilized 50,000 workers and cost $ 2 billion. The building takes the form of a giant dragon, a symbol of ancient China.
An employee at the Beijing International Airport cleans the floor of the new terminal which will serve for the Olympic Games. Dr. Feng Li
Species space
Another project for this new futuristic airport Shenzhen, a new city in southern China .
Peking Opera
Her hull has a real futuristic cultural city composed of streets, squares, shopping areas and restaurants. Placed in the middle of an artificial body of water, the new Peking Opera is the only one who can rival that of Sydney.
The building, which houses a 2500-seat opera house, two theaters, a concert hall and exhibition space, illuminated at night with its canopy and 22 000 reflections of titanium plates to his face. High of 46 meters and a maximum length of 213 meters, the building was designed by French architect Paul Andreu. Source MSN. ph corbis
China has made its nest
With Beijing National Stadium, nicknamed the Bird's Nest "China has definitely taken off in the area of extraordinary buildings.
It was during the Summer Olympics of 2008, the architects have laid this grand project: a stage of 333 meters long and 294 meters wide, can accommodate 91,000 spectators during the Olympics.
After the games the volume will be reduced to 80,000 seats and will be used for sporting and cultural events nationally and internationally.
water cube
The National Aquatics Center nicknamed "Water Cube" received during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the swimming, diving and synchronized swimming.
This innovative building, which seats 17,000 spectators, is the largest in the world to use technology known as the "air cushion" ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene), transparent material, Ultra-lightweight, self-cleaning and very resistant.
From the outside, the facade is composed of over 3,000 air cushions that change colors. A new profession: washers bubbles!
bamboo bridge
The first highway bridge in the world Bamboo is like a concrete bridge from above but below it unveils its stunning architecture bamboo. The bridge supports a maximum load of 90 tons and is expected to withstand 20 to 30 years. This type of construction exploits the virtues of bamboo: inoxydablilité, waterproof, rot, resource economics and environmental protection. It should be noted The bridge was assembled in less than 10 days. Source Xinhua
The large mural of China
colorful murals in Qingdao in China, which cover over 60,000 square meters in 21 buildings in a shopping street the city. The paintings were completed for the 2008 Games Olypiques when Qingdao will host sailing events. [Images Xinhuanet (CN)]
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