My colleague Le Lu recently visited the district of Qingpu, a suburb of Shanghai. Qingpu is the district where the waterside historic site of Zhujiajiao is located. During her visit, she went to see the Qingpu New Town Plaza, an assembly of lakes, TV tower, avenues, and sports ground surrounding a numbera number of cultural, office and commercial buildings. They are examples of new architecture by young Chinese architects. The first three photographs are from this site.
The Exhibition Center for the new city is by Jiakun Architects Studio.
The remainder of the photographs are by Le Lu, who was accompanied by my former colleague Wang Yan.
The Exhibition Center buildings conform to topography
Glass facade with colored class accents.
Detail of paving.
The buildings are sited next to a lake.
Through the use of progressive layers of landscape design, a good urban public space creates open relationship between the buildings and reflect that the government buildings are open to the public.
Materials used include black stone, concrete, glass. The facade has stone louvers.
Wang Yan. When I met her, I could not pronounce Chinese names, so I would call her Guanyin, the name of the Chinese Buddha, a name that would stick in my mind. She thought that was funny.
Interesting stone pattern.
Workers look like Spidermen.
An office building with an interesting transluscent treatment.
Plan of the building
View from the parking area.
Glass railings reflected on paving.
Outdoor seating.
The pattern on a glass door.
The shape and materials are interesting. However they did not treat the lightning rods in the roof properly, leading to rust streaming down the facade.
Hip curtain wall.
The color, density, materials, space and other elements of the new town evoque the "water village" atmosphere.
Bridge combining new materials with ancient patterns.
Le Lu.
A new pedestrian bridge.
Residential towers beyond.
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Awesome photos - thanks!
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