Hangzhou Gets Weird Architecture
Posted by SWG on 18/3/10 • Categorized as Art, Hangzhou, News
Architectural firm Stephen Holls has recently won the design competition to rebuild an old industrial site here in Hangzhou. This is properly space age looking stuff, although the design is supposed to be taken from a style of Chinese painting known as 山水 (Shanshui or Mountain Water Landscapes). The whole project will be about 25 hectares of construction on about 25 hectares, so it is huge. And will include flats and an exhibition centre. I am no architect so really dont want to make much more comment on this – but go read for yourself where this article came from:
A vertical gathering of the overall “bow tie” plan into a Water and Mountain tower alludes to the spirit of Hangzhou. From this central position in the large site, one tower branches towards tributary forms approaching the Oxygen sector while the other branches toward landscape forms at the Boiler sector. – From the website of the Architect
This project is also named*杭氧杭钢*项目. 杭氧杭钢are short for two big companies-Hangzhou Hangyang Limited and Hangzhou Iron Steel Group Company . Dongxin RD are the add of them, which means it will be rebulit just here.
Miss D – The only Dongxing Lu I can find is out near Yuhang. Is that the place? Seems far away for such a high profile project. Can you send me / post here a maps.google.com link please?
http://ditu.google.cn/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=zh-CN&geocode=&q=%E4%B8%9C%E6%96%B0%E8%B7%AF&sll=30.293979,120.179787&sspn=0.033943,0.055189&brcurrent=3,0×344c9d8ae72efad1:0xab504af94c70666b,0,0×344b641bf7eabb35:0×6eaa153514876e2f%3B5,0,0&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=%E6%B5%99%E6%B1%9F%E7%9C%81%E6%9D%AD%E5%B7%9E%E5%B8%82%E4%B8%8B%E5%9F%8E%E5%8C%BA%E4%B8%9C%E6%96%B0%E8%B7%AF&ll=30.316284,120.177984&spn=0.016967,0.027595&z=15
Thanks Kevin, added the map to post, and hope it is the right place!
Well, sorry that I am not pretty sure about the exactly add. But you can at least take following two address as reference: NO. 388, Dongxin road, Hangzhou NO. 178, Banshan road, Hangzhou -Locations of those two companies.
Yeah Miss Dolly, you have to practice your pinyin!! – I could only find 东兴路 (dongxing) not 东新路 (Dongxin) Thanks for your help
For my first time ever I knew that even a westerner spells better Pinyin than mine. But, but, SWG, I am really sorry to tell you that there does a street in HZ named Dongxin RD(东新路), where hangyang limited is. Also where the earliest Walmart located.
Besides, I do not think there is a street called Dongxing RD(东兴路) in main city of HZ, though there is one in Yuhang(余杭) as well as one in Fuyang(富阳).
SWG, you’d better read Chinese Character CAREFULLY. 东新路is where you added this place to the post.
haha ok