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THE CANYON, SAN FRANCISCO MVRDV
The Canyon – a 23 storey mixed-use building designed by MVRDV – was officially opened on 21 June. The project was built as part of a masterplan that transforms a windswept parking lot on San Francisco’s waterfront into a new “sustainable neighbourhood,” known as Mission Rock. With its jagged walls and a landscaped, publicly accessible “canyon” providing a route through the site, the building is inspired in part by San Francisco’s topography.
Located opposite the Oracle Park stadium, The Canyon is one of four buildings in the first phase. These buildings were designed collaboratively by four design firms – Studio Gang, Henning Larsen, and WorkAC and MVRDV – to create designs which worked “seamlessly together while each having a distinct appearance.”
XI’AN LOVI CENTER, CHINA AEDAS
Located in Xi’an, the Aedas-designed Xi’an Lovi Center, which opened last month, consists of a shopping mall, office and hotel towers. Designed to be a “vibrant mixed-use destination,” Lovi Center has become a “unique retail-recreational attraction through the hybrid of public space and greenery,” said the architects.
Envisioned as a “garden city,” Lovi Center is filled with “100% natural greenery and flowers through podiums, gardens and green belts.” A “cascading” funnel is designed in the atrium, serving as “a canvas for a 360˚ light show and uniting disparate elements on each floor.” The project was designed by Aedas global design principals Christine Lam and David Clayton.
The building comprises a five-storey plinth, topped by a 73 metre tower in the western corner of the plot. The ground level hosts small-scale shops and restaurants, and is topped by two floors of offices, and 283 apartments. The “canyon” itself cuts diagonally through the building’s plinth, connecting to the offices and to shared amenities for residents. Its walls plus those of the eastern side of the tower have step-backs and overhangs giving the impression of steep rocky walls, and create bay windows and small balconies for 40 apartments.
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