Articles tagged with 'China'

Populous continues its popularity in China

28 July 2010 | Populous has designed a major sports hub in China after it was selected to design the sports park in the city of Datong, in the northern Shanxi Province, near Beijing.


Woods Bagot unveils its Chinese Super-Green

21 June 2010 | Woods Bagot has developed a 36 sqkm 'Super-Green' urban design and masterplan scheme in Hangzhou, China, which will transform the city into an international eco-tourism centre.


DMA designs for Dalian

18 June 2010 | DMA Group Architects has won an international design competition for a new office building for the Dalian Electric Power Bureau in the port city of Dalian in northern China.


Woods Bagot and Buro Happold unveil Zero-E

15 June 2010 | Woods Bagot and Buro Happold have announced Zero Emissions Design (Zero-E) - a new model for large-scale sustainable development.


Perth approves Subi Centro china site

16 December 2009 | After three years of design and consultation, the Subi Centro Australian Fine China project has finally won approval - but not without compromise.


Austrade agreement to drive green building in China

16 October 2009 | Architectural firm, Woods Bagot, is one of many Australian firms to benefit from sustainable developments in the Hunan Province of China.


3D modelling wins Chinese projects

21 September 2009 | A Melbourne studio predicts that recent residential and masterplanning wins in China will double its turnover within 12 months.


Global round up

9 September 2009 | Brad Pitt creates an architectural wonder for rodents, BIG designs an "energy mansion" for China and one of London's oldest Turkish baths is set for a scrub up.


Rant on

8 September 2009 | "Big mistakes" stack up in China and aesthetics take a back seat to green design, in today's news digest.


Rant on

3 September 2009 | The Stirling Prize is called a "gaff", China's first eco city is an "unworkable urban eco-cliche" and the planning system gets panned, in today's news digest.


Global round up

17 August 2009 | Norman Foster is shunted off San Fran project, images reveal a new mixed-use district in Turkey and designs for China's fantasy island get underway, in today's global news.


Global round up

20 July 2009 | A construction accident during the set up of Madonna's stage kills two, the Bird's Nest wins Lubetkin prize, a famous architectural photographer dies and four eco towns get the go-ahead in the UK.


Global round up

3 July 2009 | Dutch giraffes get a sustainable home, the University of Sydney's Great Hall celebrates 150 years and China's ski resorts take off.


Architect sniffs at China's 'potpourri' skyline

19 May 2009 | China is risking becoming a "potpourri" of architectural styles as it uses its skyline to state its place in the world, a leading Australian architect has said


Global round up

18 May 2009 | The world's fourth biggest firm hacks back staff numbers, 20 architects take part in a Chinese exhibition to mark the Sichuan Province earthquake and the Prince Charles carbuncle debacle rages


New buildings

14 May 2009 | Melbourne, Dubai and China feature in our pick of the hottest new buildings this week


China to build 700,000 health clinics

24 April 2009 | China is planning to build thousands of new hospitals and 700,000 health care clinics by 2011 as part of a decade-long reform to improve service availability and public health care


Low dollar gives architects the edge in China

7 April 2009 | Australian architects are "extremely well placed" to play a leading role in the creation of new Chinese projects, a leading architect has said


Rant on

7 April 2009 | Prince Charles has "broken free", drug dens posing as "architectural hermit crabs" and why the Burj Dubai might as well have been designed by engineers


Global round up

4 March 2009 | Need-to-read news from around the globe.


Global round up

7 January 2009 | Environmentally-friendly cement invented; long list for US Embassy competition released; German fake Baroque palace criticised; Malaysia's first Green Building Index launches; and more...


Architects go local as China teeters on brink recession

17 December 2008 | As China's industrial output slumps to a new low and economists say the previously irrepressible economy is shrinking this quarter, a leading Australian architect says the news will change the face of local architecture.


Global round-up

8 December 2008 | Your need-to-read news from around the globe.


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