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Tianjin image from de Architekten Cie. Feb 07

Major Projects, alphabetical:

Art Museum of Yue Minjun, nr Chengdu
2008-
Art Museum of Yue Minjun
Art Museum of Yue Minjun

Bailujun Residential District, Liangzhu Cultural Village
2002-07
David Chipperfield Architects

Beijing Axis – Olympic Games to Forbidden City
2008
Albert Speer Junior

Beijing International Automotive Expo Center

2007-08
Henn Arkitekten
Architecture competiton winner

Beijing Olympic Green Convention Centre

2008
RMJM Architects
Beijing Olympic Green Convention Centre
Chinese Architecture

Beijing Olympics - The Water Cube
2007
Architects: Herzog de Meuron; Engineer: Tristram Carfrae of Arup
Water Cube China
Photo: PTW
Beijing Olympics project

Beijing Publishing House
2008
Studio Pei-Zhu

Chinese Publishing House
Beijing Publishing House

Beijing South Railway Station
2008
Farrells
Chinese Railway Station
© Arup / Zhou Ruogu Architecture Photography
Beijing Railway Station

Bird's Nest - National Stadium
2008
Arup, Herzog & De Meuron Architekten AG, China Architecture Design & Research Group
Birds Nest Beijing
Photo © Arup_Ben McMillan
Birds Nest Beijing

British Pavilion Shanghai 2010
Heatherwick Studios - winner
British Pavilion Shanghai
British Pavilion Shanghai 2010 Image from Heatherwick Studio 2007

Shanghai Expo Building

Capital Airport, Beijing
2008
Foster + Partners
Chinese Airport
image : Nigel Young, from Foster + Partners
Chinese Airport

Central Chinese Television Tower, Beijing
completion due 2008
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA
Central China TV
Chinese TV Building

Chengdu Complex
2008-
Steven Holl Architects

Image: Iwan Baan
Chengdu development

Chengdu Museum
2007-
Sutherland Hussey

Chinese Museum building

Chengdu Technology and Science Enterprising Centre
2007
Paul Andreu Architects

Chinese Building

Children’s Palace, Guangzhou
-
Steffian Bradley Architects

China Telecom Buildings 12 & 13, Shanghai
-
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Chinese-Japanese Youth Center, Beijing
1987-90
Kisho Kurokawa

Chinese National Museum, Beijing, China
2004
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Chongqing Library, Chongqing
2007
Perkins Eastman
540,000 sqft

Deep Ground, Longgang, nr Shenzhen
2008-
Groundlab Collective

Chinese Architecture Competition

Digital Beijing
2007
Studio Pei-Zhu

Digital Beijing

Emporio Armani, Shanghai
2003-04
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

F2-2, Pearl River New City, Guangzhou, China
2007
KlingStubbins
For Poly Real Estate Group:141,000sqm development - retail + offices

Fenghua Bridge, Tianjin
2007
Marc Mimram Architects

German School, Beijing, China
-
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

GreenPix - Zero Energy Media Wall
2008-
Simone Giostra & Partners Architects with Arup

Image © Simone Giostra-ARUP-Ruogu
Xicui Entertainment Complex Beijing

Guangdong Museum & Opera House, Guangzhou
-
Eric Owen Moss

Guangzhou Gymnasium
-
Information Based Architecture

Information Based Architecture
X-treme Sports Centre

Guangzhou Gymnasium
-
Paul Andreu Architects

Guangzhou Opera House

Zaha Hadid opera house

Guangzhou TV Station
-
Information Based Architecture

Information Based Architecture
Guangzhou TV Station

Guangzhou TV Tower
-
Information Based Architecture

Information Based Architecture
Guangzhou TV Tower

Guangzhou twin towers
-
over 1,300 ft high
China’s tallest twin towers

Guangzhou Park Hyatt
2007-
Goettsch Partners
Chinese Hotel
Chinese hotel building

Guangzhou TV / Tourist Tower
-
Leon Wohlhage Wernik architects, Berlin

Hangzhou Boutique - Romanticism 2 Store
2007
Keiichiro Sako, Takeshi Ishizaka/ SKSK architects

photo: Koji Fujii / Nac·sa & Partners Inc.
Hangzhou Shop

House for Ma Qingyun’s father, Lantina, nr Xian
2000
MADA - Ma Qingyun

Huizhou Hotel, China
2006
BURO Architects

Hyatt Regency Chengdu, Chicony Plaza, Chengdu
2007
Goettsch Partners

Jin Mao Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai
1998
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - SOM Architects

Photo: Andrew McRae
Shanghai tower
420m high: 88 storey skyscraper
Tallest building in China since 2005; seventh tallest building in world at time of writing

JingYa Ocean Entertainment Center, Beijing
-
Atelier Raimund Abraham

Kingkey Finance Tower, Luohu, Shenzhen
2007-10
Farrells (formerly Terry Farrell & Partners)

Liangzhu Culture Museum, Zhejiang Province, south-east China
2007
David Chipperfield Architects

Linked Hybrid, Beijing
2008
Steven Holl Architect

Beijing building

Liuzhou residential project
2008-
MVRDV

Liuzhou housing

Lotus Flower Hotel - proposal, Lingang New Town, nr Shanghai
2007-
Architects: Atkins

Lotus Flower Hotel

Meishan Island development
2008-
Atkins
Mixed-use container port project – offices, housing, industrial, leisure

Nanjing Center for Chinese & American Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing
2007
Perkins Eastman
10 storeys

Nanjing Convention & Exhibition Centre
2003
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture, Nanjing
2008
Steven Holl Architects
Nanjing Museum
Nanjing Museum

Nanning International Convention & Exhibition Center
-
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

National Grand Theater of China, Beijing
-
Paul Andreu Architects
Beijing Theatre
Photo from Paul Andreu Architects
Chinese Theatre

Ninetree Village, Hangzhou, southeast China
2004-08
David Chipperfield Architects

Photo © Christian Richters
Ninetree Village

Ningbo Cultural Centre
-
mada SPAM - Ma Qingyun (MADA s.p.a.m.)

Ningbo - Marriott Hotel
-
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Oriental Art Center - Concert Hall & Performance Spaces, Shanghai
2000-04
Paul Andreu Architects

Photo from Paul Andreu Architects 251007
Chinese Art Center Building

Oriental Pearl Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai
1995
Shanghai Modern Architectural Design

Photo: Andrew McRae
Tallest tower in Asia, 3rd tallest tower in the world
Shanghai tower
468m high TV Tower

Park Hyatt tower, Zhujiang development, Guangzhou
2007-10
Goettsch Partners

Publishing MicroCity, Beijing
2008
Studio Pei-Zhu

Beijing Publishing House

Qingdao Grand Theatre
-
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Radiant City : The Central Park - Winning design proposal
2008-
lee+mundwiler architects with Cao/Perrot Studio

Radiant City Shenzhen

Royal Garden Clubhouse, Shanghai, China
-
Eric Parry Architects

Serpents Tower, Bin Hai, nr. Beijing
2007-08
Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects
hotel/residential

Shanghai International Expo Centre
1998-2001
Murphy/Jahn Architects

Shanghai Tower : World's First Double-Skin, Super-Tall Building
2008-
Marshall Strabala

Shanghai Tower

Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai
2008: under construction
Kohn Pederson Fox - KPF Architects

Photo © Andrew McRae
Shanghai World Financial Center
101 storeys: 492 m - 1614 ft

Shenzhen Airport
2008-
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

Image courtesy Studio Fuksas
Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport

Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzen
2007
EMERGENT

Shenzhen Museum

Shenzhen Stock Exchange HQ
2007-
OMA

Shenzhen building

Shenzhen University Town Library Project
2007
RMJM

Photo: H. G. Esch
Shenzhen University building

Shenzhen Vanke Center
2007-
Steven Holl Architects

Shenzhen Vanke Center
Architecture Competition winner

Sinosteel International Plaza, Tianjin
2008-12
MAD

Sinosteel International Plaza

Songjiang hotel, Shanghai
2006-
Atkins
Chinese hotel
image © from Atkins Architects 201206
Chinese Hotel Building

Suzhou - Museum, China
2007
I.M.Pei

TEDA Towers Tianjin, east Tianjin
-
Architects: Atkins

Television Cultural Center, Beijing
completion due 2008
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA
Television Cultural Center Beijing
Chinese Cultural Building
This is not the same project as the Central Chinese Television Tower also by OMA

Tianjin Binhai New Area Masterplan
2007
Perkins Eastman, architects

Tianjin Urban Delta
de Architekten Cie.

Tianjin image from de Architekten Cie. Feb 07
Tianjin Masterplan

Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007-
Wilmotte & Associates with Ma Qingyun (MADA s.p.a.m.)

Wuhan Pebble Towers, Wuhan
2008-11
Architects: Atkins

Wuhan Pebble Towers

Youlian International Commercial Tower, Tianjin
2007-
Integra Architecture Inc.

Y-town - Museum, Ningbo
-
MADA - Ma Qingyun



Chinese Building Project:
Guangdong Science Center, Guangzhou - Architecture Competition
2003
Paul Andreu Architects

TG Harbour Complex, Lu Jia Ju district, Shanghai
2005
Aedas

Beijing Architecture
Chinese Building
Traditional Beijing building: Andrew McRae

Shanghai Architecture
Shanghai building
Beijing Skyscraper: Andrew McRae



A Bridge in Maosi Village, Gansu, China
Architect: Professor Edward Ng of Chinese University of Hong Kong
RIBA International Awards 2006

Erdos Museum, Kang Ba Shi City, Inner Mongolia, China
2007-
MAD

Far East Buildings - near China:
Oceanus Project, Macau
-
Paul Andreu Architects

Shenzhen Buildings



Chinese Building Projects by Gerkan, Marg & Partners:
China Telecom Buildings 12 & 13, Shanghai
Marriott Hotel, Ningbo
Qingdao Grand Theatre

Chinese Architecture Competitions
Guangdong Museum Competition, Guangzhou
2003-04
Peter Eisenman Architects

National Museum of China, Beijing, China
-
Denton Corker Marshall Architects

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