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NewsOle Scheeren unveils designs for twin-tower Shenzhen office scheme
Architect’s latest huge scheme in the city to rise to 200m in height
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NewsFosters unveils designs for Changfeng mixed-use development in Shanghai
Scheme seeks to promote sustainability and wellbeing through access to green spaces
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NewsSnøhetta unveils Beijing library filled with ‘hills’ and topped by canopy-like roof
Gingko tree motif is intended as a celebration of Beijing’s natural and cultural heritage
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NewsFoster & Partners appointed to masterplan new Chinese city district
Practice proposes distinct zones intersected by water for Hangzhou megaproject
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FeaturesReclining Amongst the Clouds: Woyun Platform, Longmenshan Town, China
Located in Pengzhou City is Woyun Platform, a visitor centre that provides guests and locals alike the chance to enjoy the natural scenery
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BlogsThe future of Hong Kong
Hong Kong has an opportunity to become a world-class exponent of high-density living — but will the political climate make this a reality?
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Blogs
Architectural pornography?
OMA have always liked to do things a bit differently, but it's unlikely they saw this one coming. In News Junkie's favourite story of the year thus far, Koolhaas' practice has been accused of designing a building that emulates human genitalia. Can you guess which building it is?Apparently the ...
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Blogs
Calatrava justifies his budget and Holl revels in controversy
News Junkie is back with the news round up which today features an Australian ex-Trade Union boss and Calatrava justifying the huge price tag for the World Trade Centre hub.Plus Stephen Holl enjoying controversy in Norway, the nano homes that could help solve Mumbai's chronic shortage of affordable housing and ...
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Blogs
Moscow takes matters into its own hands, Rem gets reduced and RMJM eyes up Iraq
All those projects that have gone on hold in Moscow may get a new lease of life after City Hall showed a bit of initiative and took matters into its own hands by setting up a group to buy land off the developers.Elsewhere in the world Rem Koolhaas' tower in ...
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Blogs
Tributes to Arthur Erickson and architecture as the new "economic powerhouse"
It's been a sad six months for architecture, losing some of our best and most inventive thinkers in Sverre Fehn, Jan Kaplicky and Jorn Utzon. And now Canada's Arthur Erickson. Sad indeed. On a slightly lighter note, there is hope that the Bird's Nest stadium will finally find some ...
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Blogs
Is Russia telling porkies about their Olympic site?
Looks like Russia has been rumbled. Apparently their "big building site" for the 2014 Winter Olympics has hardly been touched and is hosting guerrilla gardeners.And poor Calatrava, whose design for the World Trade Centre transport hub took a bit of a battering earlier this week, has now had his design ...
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Blogs
Bucky Fuller competition, OMA job cuts and jobs in Israel
The Bucky Fuller challenge is one of News Junkie's favourite competitions, offering a vast array of solutions to some of the world's most serious problems. This year's finalists have just been published online and offer some serious inspiration covering everything from CAD to eco city mapping.Maybe these are the types ...
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Blogs
Glancey on the TVCC's trial by fire
Guardian architecture critic Johnathan Glancey takes a look at the outcome of the TVCC tower trial by fire - which is apparently known locally as the Boot or the Termite's Nesthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/11/television-cultural-centre-tower-beijing-fire