Pritzker Architecture Prize

Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international prize, which is awarded each year to a living architect for significant achievement, was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their

Hyatt Foundation in 1979. Often referred to as "architecture's Nobel" and "the profession's highest honor," it is granted annually.

China is being inundated with architectural inspiration as the awards ceremony for Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Wang Shu wraps up and an open forum regarding the country's architecturalfuture is brought into full focus.

In a prelude to the ceremony, 700 national and international architects gathered in Beijing to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the Chinese industry, with a key focus on how totackle the industry boom and urban development growth, in a way that capitalises on modern design and technologies without forgetting cultural roots.

"The success of China's urbanisation will be critical to its economic and social development," says Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of the prize sponsors. "The challenge, as in any urbanisationthroughout the world, is to achieve urban growth that is in harmony with local needs and culture."

With the rapid growth in China, the industry is looking to develop long-term urban development plans that will cater to the growth, in addition to setting the foundations for a modern country.

However, 2002 Pritzker Architecture Laureate Glenn Murcutt has urged forum members to maintain cultural links in even their most modern of developments.

Chairman of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury, Lord Peter Palumbo, says Wang Shu has been awarded the highest level of architectural recognition for his ability to bring these key elements together.

"The jury saw the emergence for the first time of authentic, contemporary Chinese architecture of great quality," says Palumbo. "They combined all sorts of things: the new and old, modern and traditional, past and future, all these questions were beautifully combined in his work."

"I think one of the dangers in the modernization of China is the forgetting of the rich culture and the beauty of the buildings that you've had," Murcutt says. "It is very easy to just look to the future. I think looking to the past is also incredibly important in being able to integrate those aspects that do belong to the present and to the future."

"What I am practicing is in contrast to the huge, shining, modern, iconic and powerful architecture located in the center of our cities. I am striving for something that is close to the grass-roots, to the rights of common people, and is related to Chinese people's traditions and daily lives," says Shu. "My architecture is not shining, and sometimes even looks crude. It is quite different from the mainstream architecture in China and I think it will continue raising debates and discussions."

The discussion that his architecture and the recent forum have aroused has always been Shu's goal, and an aspect he feels needs to be explored and debated in order to create a successful Chinese industry and built environment.

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Beautiful And Imaginative Schools

An extension of a typical Slovenian prefab kindergarten from the '80s, the colorful, interactive design is a response to the school's lack of play equipment. The addition's three exterior walls are made of "toy slats": natural wooden planks that the kids can play with to "get to know different colors, experience wood as a natural material and constantly change the appearance of their kindergarten, all at the same time."

Albert Einstein, responsible for the world’s most famous equation and quite possibly the smartest man to ever live, said that “logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” With that in mind, surely a child’s imagination is something to cherish and nourish. Enter the public school system. For years public education has been known for its never-ending, claustrophobic hallways and rows of greige lockers, made famous by all of our favorite teen dramas from The Wonder Years to My So-Called Life.

Architects and local governments around the world are now fighting the good fight against dismal, uninspiring schools and the groundbreaking results are re-shaping the learning experience for our future generations. From a colorful kindergarten in Slovenia made out of toy planks that lets kids play with and manipulate their environment to a high school breeding a new generation of environmentalists, click through to check out the future of a free education.
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Congrats to Shelley Penn

Shelley Penn is a Melbourne based-architect. She was named as the Australian Institute of Architects new national president. We, on behalf of China's architectural rendering & architectural visualization company, congratulations on her.As a Melbourne-based architect, she has drawn the common comparisons between Melbourne and Sydney architectural styles and, while not offering a definitive favorite, it is clear that the cultural richness of Melbourne appeals to the architect. A report from the Property Observer reveals Penn’s past lecturing at the University of Melbourne and what they have labeled as a her particular ‘concern with the poetic capacity for architecture to enrich the human condition. In describing Melbourne, Penn cites the human appeal created through its infrastructure and architecture as its most attractive feature. To see more: http://www.frontop.com/sitecn/Blog/812.html

Woods Bagot's Design for China Southern

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The largest carrier in Asia China Southern Airlines plans to build not just a new corporate campus, but an entire small city as its headquarters on the outskirts of Guangzhou. Named China Southern Airport City. The international architecture practice Woods Bagot (We created architectural rendering for its Chongqing D7 Project) is designing the master plan, after winning a competition that included Paul Andreu and Zaha Hadid (We have cooperated with Zaha Hadid for many projects on 3d rendering and architectural visualization). the project is scheduled to begin rising on a 988-acre site about four miles from Guangzhou's Baiyun International Airport as early as the end of this year.

On the ground, the Woods Bagot plan connects the two parcels of land with a bridge and light rail system that extends over the highway, but gives each area a set of distinct functions. "We put most of the airline's internal functions, like a training center, staff dormitories, and data center facilities on the east parcel," along with plenty of outdoor space, designed in collaboration with Hargreaves Associates and Sherwood Design Engineers, says Weng. "Most Chinese cities are very dense and very urban, but China Southern wants to create a human-scale campus, that's close to nature."

On the western parcel, the section closest to the bridge will include public functions, such as a media center, business hotel, outlet mall, and performing arts center. Manufacturing, operations, and research buildings will be clustered further north. Although Weng estimates it may take 10 years for China Southern to complete the project, the result is intended to be "a mini-city of their own, sustainable for long-term growth."

One of the 2007 10 Wonders of the World

After a decade of high praise and controversy of China's CCTV Headquarters, one of the world's most talked about buildings is finally complete. The skyscraper's completion heralds a new era of Chinese architecture and offers to stand as a challenge for architects globally to take their unconventional designs off the page and into the built arena.

CCTV Headquarters is located in Beijing business center. It contains CCTV Headquarters building, Television Cultural Center, Service Building and Celebration Square, designed by architectural firm OMA and lead designers Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren. It was elected as 2007 10 Wonders of the World by American Times.

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