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FUTURE TIMES, QIANHAI, CHINA LWK + PARTNERS
LWK + PARTNERS in collaboration with DDON has won the international competition to design landscape areas of multiple sites of Future Times, in the fast-expanding Chinese city of Qianhai. It is one of the city’s largest “transport-oriented developments” and forms part of a “low-carbon vision.” LWK + Partners will design over 200,000 m2
of landscape, taking into account Qianhai’s urban planning
objectives to be “ecological,” “all-dimensional,” and “compact.” The resulting landscape scheme will “establish the overall development as a contemporary urban landmark,” said the firm. The development is located in Qianhai’s Guiwan financial business district, where most financial institutions and high-end commercial projects are expected to be sited. With functional buildings distributed across a massive site, the landscape team sees it as a key design objective to “guide and coordinate the circulation of people.” Pedestrians will be “drawn naturally into the project through landscape features and environmental- friendly facades,” said LWK + Partners. A skybridge will be transformed into a hanging garden island and two tower facades will be designed as a “vertical landscaping spectacle.”
MASARYČKA, PRAGUE ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
Construction of the Masaryčka mixed use scheme in Prague is continuing, with works to construct the higher floors of cantilevered offices with terraced roof gardens. Planned to open in 2023, the 28,000 m2
Masaryčka building incorporates
BASTIAN GALLERY, BERLIN JOHN PAWSON
The design of the Bastian Gallery in the Dahlem district of Berlin by John Pawson has been shaped by the idea of “re-examining prevailing contemporary notions of what constitutes appropriate space for the viewing of art.” The gallery is a rectilinear volume, clad in sandstone and “set in nature.” A series of full height openings, edged in galvanised steel, punctuate the facades. “The elongated proportions of the composition are subtly enriched by the vertical graining of the oak used for doors and for ventilation elements,” say the architects. The building’s 12.5 x 20 m footprint delivers a 500 m2
programme,
divided equally between ground floor and basement levels, with stone floors and ceiling heights of 5.6 metres in the public ground floor galleries, and 2.8 metre high ceilings in the downstairs staff areas. In the galleries, the detail of the viewing conditions are set by the pared back character of the spaces, natural light and the “thresholds drawn between the interior and exterior worlds of art and nature.”
seven storeys within its eastern section, and reaches nine at its western end. A reconstruction of Masaryk railway station, will create a new public park partially over the railway tracks, and will provide a new pedestrian route between Na Florenci Street in the north and Hybernská Boulevard to the south, in addition to enhancing accessibility to the railway platforms below. Masaryčka will replace the existing car park on Havlíčkova Boulevard with a new public square – a gateway to the city for suburban and domestic rail services as well as the planned airport rail link to Prague’s Vaclav Havel International Airport. Targeting LEED Platinum certification, Masaryčka design incorporates a triple-insulated facade and natural ventilation, supported by a high efficiency plant with waste heat recovery systems. Photovoltaics will harvest renewable energy, while smart management systems will help to reduce energy consumption.
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