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This gorgeous Buddhist temple is based on a mobius strip to symbolize reincarnation. The modern temple was designed last year in Taichang Jiangsu, China by the Chinese firm, Miliy Design. The building’s dynamic, undulating form is the architect’s stab at the Buddhist concept of “formlessness.” In the architects words, “Circulation revolves from outside to inside through the space just like the reincarnation through different life forms.”
So, today it was announced by Architectural Record that Gensler is the top billing architectural firm in America, snaking it out from under longstanding heavyweights AECOM. So in honor of that, Great Spaces is looking at their most recent project underway in China.
Not to be confused with the soon-to-be-tallest-building-in-the-world, supposed-to-be-built-in-90-days building, Gensler’s Shangai Tower will soon be China’s tallest building, coming in at a whopping 632 meters. Another building advertising itself as a “self-contained city,” it is going to be the star of Shanghai’s financial district. At first glance, it may not look like anything special, just a skyscraper with a swoosh, but with so many things, the beauty is in the details…
Check out the post on Great Spaces: http://bit.ly/Om0jAN
Unique twin boulder design and approach promenade enhances urban function, opens access to the riverside and dock areas and creates a new language with China designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.
In progress: Phoenix International Media Center x BIAD UFo. Click for more. #GreatSpaces
Fog x ANZAS Dance Studio
(Putting on nerd glasses) It is a dance studio by Tsutsumi and Associates planned to the corner of the building in the Beijing city.
What is done in the studio is to confirm the behavior of the body. In the view of being repeated by the mirror, changing dazzlingly, a sense of existence of the floor becomes important.
Paradoxically speaking, anything but the floor is unnecessary to be perceived. Then I imagined a space wrapped in a deep fog. It was felt that the scenery in the fog in which everything except ground is near whiteout condition was proper to this dance studio. Grainy and deep colored tiger-wood (Muiracatiara) is used for the floor, and all the other things are painted white so that the floor gets remarkable.
By painting a white ceramic paint in a dot gradation on the mirror, the floor merges far into the wall. When it sets foot on the studio, an innumerable white particle wraps the body. The floor merges gradually in a deep boundary, and senses of depth are lost.
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