New Guangzhou architecture projects with contemporary building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Guangdong province property updates from across this Chinese port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River.
We feature Timeless Beacon, Taiping Xu, Nanhai, designed by Ma Yansong, MAD Architects. Ma Yansong was invited by Guangdong Nanhai Art Field to complete this art installation.
e-architect also showcase Baiyun New Skyscraper GDH Yungang City, Tianhe and Baiyun, in the city’s beating heart. It is the up-and-coming new town set to become the city’s second largest Central Business Area. As part of a larger push to fill the gap in the industrial-city landscape, GHD Yungang City has attracted many Fortune 500 companies to set up offices.
A master plan by Goettsch Partners has been selected as the winning scheme in the design competition for a prominent site in the new Pazhou district in Guangzhou, China. Three urban parcels form the triangular site, which is planned for seven buildings totaling 428,000 square meters.
Design by Zaha Hadid Architects – like pebbles in a stream smoothed by erosion, the Guangzhou Opera House sits in perfect harmony with its riverside location. This new building is at the heart of Guangzhou’s cultural development.
The city of Guangzhou has almost completed the work on what will be one of the tallest buildings in the world – Information Based Architecture (IBA) and Arup worked collaboratively to win the commission for the design of the new TV Tower for the City of Guangzhou, which will be the host city for the 2010 Asian Games.
The TV-station will take it’s place in a omni directional web of important newly developed cultural buildings, with the TV-tower to the East, the Opera, the Library, Youth centre and New Museum to the North, the Pagoda to the South.
The complex consists of a 15.200 sqm Velodrome and Rollerskating arena, an 11.500 sqm extreme sport Center, a 6.600 sqm Office building for the Game management of the Asian Games. Furthermore are there facilities planned for BMX, rock climbing and mountainbiking and a volunteer and academic exchange center.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Bloomberg report that the structure of Guangzhou Opera House remains intact after a fire on May 9, according to Zaha Hadid Architects. The opening later in 2009 will be delayed.