Crowne Plaza Shanghai Harbour City Hotel, China
As the first and the only island hotel in Shanghai, Crowne Plaza Shanghai Harbour City is sitting on the South Island of the scenic Dishui Lake, Harbour City, Shanghai. Designed by ATKINS, Crowne Plaza Shanghai Harbour City is stylish and elegant, looking just like a flower blooming in the water. The hotel presents 330 luxurious and contemporary designed guest rooms most of which are with a balcony that offers a…
Shanghai Planetarium, China
Ennead Architects have won the international competition for the building of Shanghai’s planetarium, a new 38,000-square-meter project that will define a new identity for the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (SSTM) in China. Three ‘celestial bodies’ comprise the architecture: The Oculus, the Inverted Dome, and the Sphere. The Oculus demonstrates the passage of time by tracking a circle of sunlight on the ground across the entry plaza and reflecting pool. The Inverted…
Busan Opera House, South Korea
Snohetta was selected as the winner of the Busan Opera House Competition in South Korea with their ‘Unpacking the Box’ concept. Located on reclaimed land on the city's waterfront, the new Opera House will convert the historically industrial area into a public space for Busan. The Opera is designed to be exceptionally accessible in the urban context, not just physically accessible but visually accessible, and above all mentally accessible. The…
Terminal 3 of Harbin Taiping International Airport, China
MAD Architects releases its design for Terminal 3 of Harbin Taiping International Airport in China. Harbin serves as one of the largest transportation hubs in the region. The terminal building echoes the characteristics of Harbin’s geography and climate. Like a snowflake that has gently fallen onto the earth, it settles into its locale, while simultaneously expressing itself as a surreal, interstellar space of future air travel. The scheme’s snowflake-shaped, five-finger departure corridors greatly…
Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, China
The Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, designed by Andrew Bromberg, is located in Hong Kong, China. Unusual for the vertical city of Hong Kong, the design of the station is ground-hugging which introduces over 3 hectares of ‘green plaza’ to the site. The station design, with 400,000 square meters of floor space, compacted all supporting spaces more efficiently to allow for a very large void down into the departure hall below. …
