Tag: Asia | The Plan

Taipei MAPPING - a harmonious mix of assonance and dissonance

The CityPlan returns to the Far East, to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. As usual, our survey starts with a look at the GIS-based maps that provide a significant

# Taiwan (85)

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Taipei Identity: From Icon to Infrastructure

Taipei, or Taipei city, as it is now officially designated, is the capital and most important political, economic and cultural city in Taiwan. Seat of national

# Taiwan (85)

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Urban Strategy and Nature Redesign

Urbanus Architecture & Design

The architectural term Urbanism has always been closely related to Modernism. Today, in a modern country like China, there is a great divide between rural an

# China (1027) # Library (150) # Urbanus Architecture & Design (14)

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Library - South University of Science and Technology

Urbanus Architecture & Design

Six years ago Urbanus Architecture & Design was invited to participate in the competition for the library project of the South University of Science and Tec

# China (1027) # Library (150) # Urbanus Architecture & Design (14)

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shonan christ church hasaka

Takeshi Hosaka

A protestant church stands at a rich green residential area which is 10-minutes away from Shonan beach on foot. The chapel of the 50-year old church became too

# Religious Building - Complex (137) # Japan (110) # Takeshi Hosaka

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Shanghai Mapping - A City Where Planning Does Exist

After a short foray into the United States, looking at Philadelphia and Miami, TheCityPlan now turns once again to the Far East, where after Peking, we now expl

# China (1027)

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Architecture and Identity

A booming financial centre, Shanghai is rapidly gaining global economic importance. Since the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, it has been one of the five Chinese cit

# China (1027)

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Shanghai Tower

Gensler

Describing a high-rise building designed by a colleague, Louis Sullivan - dubbed the “father of the skyscraper” - is quoted as saying: “Here i

# China (1027) # Offices (965) # Gensler

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Groove Centre EN

Synthesis Design + Architecture

Like other Asian cities, the chaos, traffic and congestion of Bangkok’s major thoroughfares disappear in the narrower, more intimate spaces of the nearby

# Commercial - Retail (489) # Thailand (26) # Synthesis Design + Architecture

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Private Home - Istanbul, Turkey

Toner Architects

The district looks out across the Sea of Marmara, roughly a dozen kilometres west of the old heart of Istanbul. It is here that this three-storey villa designed

# Turkey (135) # Oikos (34) # Toner Architects

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Long Museum West Bund EN

Atelier Deshaus

Long Museum West Bund is located at the bank of Huangpu River, Xuhui District, Shanghai Municipality, the site of which was used as the wharf for coal transport

# China (1027) # Atelier Deshaus # Exhibition (438)

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Science Hills Komatsu EN

UAo Urban Architecture Office

We won the competition of Komatsu city, Ishikawa to design a complex of science museum and communication center, which was constructed at the former factory sit

# Japan (110) # UAo Urban Architecture Office # Exhibition (438)

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