Tag Archive: Shenzhen

Dec 30

House of the Tree

House of the Tree

A penthouse on the 48th and 49th floor of a residential tower in Shenzhen, China designed Kokaistudios.   House of the Tree, located at the 48th and 49th floor of a high-end residential tower in Shenzhen, China, is a penthouse designed by Kokaistudios with the concept of “living between the city and the nature” offers …

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Nov 22

Izakaya Singer by Panorama

A Japanese restaurant situated at the newly-opened food & entertainment hub “OCT Bay” designed by Panorama in Shenzhen, China. A main scene of “Dining Room” was created to give a “home” feeling and move the traditional izakaya’s dining experience to a new level of trendiness. Up-cycling of different found objects provide unique casual dining experience …

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Oct 16

Pedestrian Bridge

Pedestrian Bridge

This $7.8 million Chunhua footbridge in Shenzhen, China, is an amazing 14-meter-wide overpass that was designed in the shape of a flower with 13 elevators and six staircases.

Sep 02

Tencent Dazu Building

Tencent Dazu Building

Description from edg Creatives: To convey Tencent’s youthful and creative culture as well as its unique position between physical and virtual reality, our design team applied a “regenerative design” approach to create a highly adaptive office interior consisting of different visual themes for each of its eleven floors. Open office areas and meeting rooms epitomize …

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Aug 09

Ping An Finance Center by KPF

Ping An Finance Center by KPF

Located in Shenzhen’s new CBD, the Ping An Finance Center will be Shenzhen’s tallest building. With over 100 office floors and a large podium containing retail and conference program, PAFC will become the physical and iconic center of Shenzhen’s burgeoning CBD. Located on Lot 1 of the Futian District, at the southwest corner of the …

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Jul 31

Hua Qiang Bei Road

Hua Qiang Bei Road

This 1-kilometer section of Hua Qiang Bei Road is designed by the New York-based architectural and urban planning firm WORKac in collaboration with Arup as consulting traffic, sustainability, structural and MEP engineers and Balmori Associates as landscape architects. Description from WORKac: WORKac and ZhuBO has won an invited competition to redesign a 1-kilometer section of …

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Jul 25

Shenzhen Jungle Plaza

Shenzhen Jungle Plaza

Multi-functional sustainable development designed by LAVA, in one of the fastest growing cities in the world, Shenzhen. Description from LAVA: The self-sustained development comprises a 5 star luxury hotel, residential, retail, urban village and parklands. The design embraces the local terrain of mountains, tropical flora and water systems. The city of Shenzhen is one of …

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Jul 16

Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition (MoCAPE)

Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition (MoCAPE)

Coop Himmelb(l)au practice wins the first prize for the Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition design competition. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Planning Exhibition (PE) are joined together to create an ‘Urban Monolith’ by a large metal sculpture sheltering a skybridge beneath a flared glass overhang, to serves as an urban …

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Jun 28

Nanshan Wedding Center by Urbanus

Nanshan Wedding Center by Urbanus

Description from Urbanus: In China, the image of marriage registration office is usually closely associated with government institutes. Moreover, registry office, as a part of the Civil Affairs Department, also connects marriage with the complicated and boring bureaucracy. Due to such bureaucratization of the process of marriage, the supposedly romantic and exciting moment of marriage …

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Jun 21

Kingkey 100 by Farrells

Kingkey 100 by Farrells

Completed at the end of 2011, the 441.8m KK100 Tower, Shenzhen’s tallest tower as well as one of the world’s tallest mixed use buildings, features a sophisticated environmental skin which allows it to maintain an optimum interior environment whilst minimizing potential solar heat gain.