Posts Tagged ‘china’
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Completed in 2007, the new library in the city of Chongqing, a huge city in China, with nearly 30 million inhabitants and more than 3000 years of history, it was designed by Perkins Eastman, with over 50,000 square meters construction.
It was designed to become a civic and cultural icon, so this beautiful building goes beyond the notion that a library is simply a place full of books and therefore has a concert hall, space for art galleries, conference facilities, restaurant and a hotel for visitors.
The building is almost completely covered in glass, to ensure good ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Coop Himmelb an Austrian architectural firm has won a competition to design what will be the new headquarters of an insurance company in Shenzhen China.
The 49 level building will be located next to the Stock Exchange Shenzhen which is under construction at present.
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China Insurance Group headquarters by Coop Himmelb(l)au
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Designed by: Henn Architekten. Life Insurance Center Research and Development Center in the rural outskirts of Beijing reflects the parameters of traditional Chinese buildings and resulting in highly developed technological mind. The complex of China's largest insurance company consists of a main building, building a research laboratory and a training center and related to a pension.
Similar in shape to a Chinese character, the main building was established in an agreement on a square, a symbol of strength. A quiet garden opens its heart, which, as the core of the whole, serves as a place of ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Maps of China - where the Great Wall, that is, those who, along rivers, provinces, the capital. What should I wear and when? How do I get here to there? And when all the people? and the Gobi desert and the Himalayas and more.
The Great Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of the world, it enlisted in the World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1987. Like a giant dragon, the Great Wall and winds through deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 6700 km (4163 miles) from east to west China.
And here I ...
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