Sky City Changsha's further progress

Sky City supertall tower of The Broad Sustainable group of China is currently undergoing further tests so that construction of this marvel may begin Ins.

838m supertall tower

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Waterfront masterplan of the Sky City Changsha

J220 is slowly being realised

Updates on J220

Some pictures from their sites

17 Helipads and Heliports on J220


Architect Abdullah with experience in Burj Khalifa




Massive masterplan with CBD and a race course in Shandong

Chinese to serve Super Tall buildings like McDonald's

New instant City to instantly rise out of the horizon in a queit sea side fishing town of Shangdong. Compromising of Technology & Science parks along with a massive industrial down amidts a well landscaped masterplanned 10, 000 acres zone. The development includes Financial District, a supertall tower similar in look to the Sky City One Changsha J220 and another tower which seems to be a replica of the Shanghai finance center. There's also a full size Formula 1 Grandprix race track and water sports area with plenty of  berths for yachts.

J220 Heliport


Arab Architect behind Burj Khalifa now working for J220 alongside the chairman of Broad Group.




Broad has partnered with United Benefial Group (UBG) of Shanghai for some projects

So far, Broad has built 16 structures in China, plus another in Cancun. They are fabricated in sections at two factories in Hunan, roughly an hour’s drive from Broad Town. From there the modules—complete with preinstalled ducts and plumbing for electricity, water, and other infrastructure—are shipped to the site and assembled like Legos. The company is in the process of franchising this technology to partners in India, Brazil, and Russia. What it’s selling is the world’s first standardized skyscraper, and with it, Zhang aims to turn Broad into the McDonald’s of the sustainable building industry.

“Traditional construction is chaotic,” he says. “We took construction and moved it into the factory.” According to Zhang, his buildings will help solve the many problems of the construction industry. They will be safer, quicker, and cheaper to build. And they will have low energy consumption and CO₂emissions. When I ask Zhang why he decided to start a construction company, he corrects me. “It’s not a construction company,” he says. “It’s a structural revolution.”

Here's the Google Translated article

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Shandong Yuanda is able to build a science and technology company in Rushan City, Shandong Jiaozhou peninsula has a total of 10,000 acres of high-quality industrial and commercial land development rights can be built in addition to ambitious the Shandong company plans to build an area of ​​two acres, with an annual output of three million square meters [about 60 billion annual ancillary products purchases oversize completed product base. remaining approximately 8,000 acres of industry for the construction can be built on supporting industrial park. radiation in North China East China export demand [about 15 sections and can be built branch total output of 150 million square meters will be completed goods building, a total of 300 billion annual ancillary products purchases. huge priority purchases among the enterprises in the park, a clear commercial interests ... To be invited admission Industrial Classification Details: steel, machinery manufacturing, color steel tile, metal materials, fasteners, stairs, wall panels, glass products, glass curtain wall, inside and outside the sunshade, cement fiberboard (cca board) for interior wall film , insulation materials, elevator, wire and cable, wire harness manufacturing, electrical switches, lamps, led lamps, kitchenware, sanitary ware, furniture, bathroom accessories, doors, windows, fire-fighting equipment, piping and pick pieces pvc material, silicone, structural adhesive sealant resin paint coating, zinc powder, ceramic tile, water purification equipment, meter box, distribution box, all other materials of construction and renovation on the downstream enterprises 【declined pollute the environment enterprise] Built before August 2013 up to 200 layers total area of ​​two million square meters can be built on the future construction of low-carbon model community, open innovation world building standards The industrial park is located in Shandong Province, the most economically developed Jiaozhou Peninsula Center, 1.5 hour drive from Qingdao, Weihai, Yantai each 40-minute drive from the railway terminal edge of the park, the territory of two high-speed direct access to parts of the province. Shandong is one of the major economic province is also the most populous province. Become a famous tourist destination 20 miles Silver Beach and picturesque mountain scenery in the edge of the project area, the natural environment is very scarce. Factories except as ambitious can build products supporting base as a bridgehead of the northern markets, but also become a great export base for logistics cost advantage. Good working and living environment, extremely suitable investors and even the majority of employees live and work. Intended mode of cooperation: a ready-built standard factory [As noted in the lease requirements built] leased to supporting suppliers in producing components for the lofty built product construction supplier. provide quality land to suppliers own factories. {Established on downstream co-financing and joint guarantee system} Not built but production factory and supply warehouse. Maintain the status quo remote procurement made for accessories. Distribution cooperation in the the finished construction business the specific regional agents or distributors lofty built, for a certain percentage of commission, and the amount of performance-related products within the business outcomes business priority order. Soon they will bid for more masterplanned projects  http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDExNTM5OTQ4.html Source: Broad to become McDonald's of Sustainable Buildings http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/broad-sustainable-building-instant-skyscraper/all/ Broad's official Sites www.broad.com race-broad.com old.broad.com  gaoloumi.com skyscrapercity.com

Massive Mad Master plan developments

Planning a High-Performance,
Sustainable City in China

Wenzhou Lingni Master Plan
Wenzhou, China

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Our Wenzhou master plan weaves together natural elements and infrastructure to produce a high performance, sustainable city.

HOK’s competition plan incorporates the potential of the site to create a meaningful urban fabric while protecting sensitive ecosystems along the rapidly developing coastline. A mixed-use strategy integrates dense urban fabric, productive landscape and vibrant communities into catalysts that activate the site.
The master plan accommodates seasonal and climatic adaptations to the coastal river delta environment. This flexibility gives the city resilience to adapt to tidal and technological changes.
By synthesizing market demands into a plan that respects current and future ecosystems, the city will attract investors while promoting a high quality of life. The integration of landscape and urban density creates a model of sustainable development.

Weifang, Shandong





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Chairman Wang Shuifu visited the AVIC TFAI and Yanliang China Aviation Industry Base

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On Oct.13, 2011, Wang Shuifu - Chairman of Xizi UHC led a team to visit the AVIC The First Aircraft Design Institute and Yan Liang China Aviation Industry Base. Wang Shuifu, the chairman of Xizi UHC and Li Shouze, the president of AVIC The First Aircraft Design Institute He Liang - Director of Yan Liang China Aviation Industry Base introduced China Aviation Industry Base to Wang Shuifu and his team from Xizi UHC.

Ireland to help establish €2bn Chinese equine centre

China has chosen Ireland to help establish a multi-billion euro national equine centre in the country's fourth largest city Tianjin.

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The facility is expected to generate almost €40m in exports for Ireland within three years.

The Tianjin Equine Culture City project, costing almost €2bn, will help China to develop a horse racing and breeding industry.

The announcement was made by Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney, who is in China on a five-day trade mission.

China’s top agriculture graduates will spend two months studying at Coolmore Stud in Tipperary as part of the project.

The project marks the first Chinese government involvement with an overseas joint venture in horse racing and breeding.

Mr Coveney said: "This initiative should facilitate the development of a major export market for horses from Ireland and has the potential to provide a range of business opportunities for companies and individuals in Ireland who can bring a wide range of expertise to the project."

The 127-strong delegation on the trade mission will take part in a series of events focused on trade and investment.

Over 50 Irish food and agri-services companies are taking part in the mission to identify potential market outlets for Irish produce.

Chief executives of leading Irish companies involved in the export of meats, dairy products, seafood and agri-tech products, as well as services to China, will accompany the minister.

The mission follows a trip to China by Taoiseach Enda Kenny last month, during which a strategic partnership for co-operation was established on a range of issues.

Minister Coveney will meet with his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday before all parties attend a trade reception in the Irish Embassy in Beijing.

The Ireland-China Food Network will be launched as part of the global diaspora network later in the week.

It is hoped the mission will secure lucrative contracts from Chinese firms

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China plans £2.6bn horse racing complex

China is to build a £2.6bn international horse racing complex outside the port city of Tianjin in a bid to capitalise on growing interest in the sport which was officially banned for almost 60 years after the Communist takeover in 1949.

An artist's impression of the new horse racing track  

By Peter Foster in Beijing

9:40AM BST 21 Apr 2010

An ambitious 10-year project, backed by developers in Dubai, aims to create a "Tianjin Horse City" with an international equestrian college, horse-breeding centre, auction base, animal feed factory, racetrack, and 7-star hotel with sweeping, phoenix-shaped grandstand.

The Dubai-based Meydan group, the developer of the world's biggest horse racing complex, said it had been invited by the Chinese government to use its know-how to take horse racing in China to the next level.

"Horse racing is a brand-new industry in China," said Teo Ah Khing, the managing director of the Malaysian TAK Design Consultants, which is raising finance for the project, "They have little dots all over the country of horse racing and breeding but no structure." Comparisons are being drawn with Dubai which held its first race in 1992 with virtually no infrastructure in place, but within a decade was hosting the world's richest race, the $10m Dubai World Cup.

China is hoping to emulate that success, having legalised horse racing in 2008, however sources at the China Equestrian Association cautioned that the country was still woefully short of the experience and expertise required to run such a project.

Previous attempts to kick-start racing in China ran into difficulties, with the government shutting down a number of racecourse in 2000 in an anti-gambling campaign. In 2005 nearly 600 horses belonging to a failed Beijing racecourse were put down, to the fury of animal rights campaigners.

Racing was introduced in China by the British in the 19th and early 20th century, with the sport becoming a popular pastime. By the 1930s Shanghai boasted one of the largest racetracks in the world, the outline of which can still be seen in one of the city's parks.

However the sport was banned after the Communist revolution as a colonial and backward pursuit, but after a false start in the 1990s was legalised in 2008 when the former colonial "concession" of Wuhan in central China won the first licenses to stage races.

In a separate development, the owners of Wuhan's racing operations, Orient Lucky Horse Corporation, announced it was intending it was pushing ahead with its own three-year plan for a horse city, with luxury hotels in a bid to attract more tourists to the city.

Wuhan last year sent a delegation to Kentucky in the United States as part of its drive to create an international-standard horse racing industry in China, and Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province is developing a track in close co-operation with the Australian government.

Work on the Tianjin Horse City is slated to begin next month, with plans to complete the 660-acre equestrian college, stud farm and animal feed factory by the end of 2011, with the first 1,000 students scheduled to be enrolled the following year.

A stud farm breeding 1,000 horses a year, drawing on international bloodstock and an auction centre selling 700 horses a year are due for completion by the end of 2012. A luxury 3,600 bed hotel and accommodation for 20,000 workers is also planned.

The success of the project may well hinge on whether China's government moves to put racing on a commercial footing by legalising gambling which is currently limited to a lottery-style system where punters win scratch-lottery tickets for picking the winning horse.

But despite persistent lobbying in recent years from local governments to relax the rules, China's central government has refused to break a taboo on gambling which is a favourite pastime of the Chinese, with an estimated £50bn flowing out of China on illegal gambling every year.

The Chinese racing industry has argued that legalising on-track betting could generate up to three million jobs, clean up illegal gambling and generate some £4bn in tax revenues.

However a report by the Kentucky China Trade Centre last year played down the immediate prospects for expanding the sport in China.

"We cannot see a bright future for commercial horse racing, horse racing gambling and racetracks in mainland China in terms of the central government's attitude towards the issue and the circumstances of laws prohibiting it," it said.

Master planned developments worldwide Oct 2012

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XishuangbanNa Residence 

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Dezhou Solar Valley with exhibition center

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Solar roofed Kaohsiung National Stadium




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JH Mayer Dubli Casa

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Tamina Thermal Baths by Smolenicky & Partner Architecture

The architects at the Zurich based Smolenicky & Partners, designed the Tamina Thermal Baths for the Grand Resort in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.

from Joseph Smolenicky:
COMPETITION
The project for the Tamina thermal baths is the result of a two-stage competition from 2003. The aim of the first phase of the process was to coordinate the large pending architectural interventions in terms of town planning. Where should the new five-star hotel be located, where should the extension of the medical centre be set, and how should the new public thermal baths be accessed from the site? The plan was to invest and coordinate a total of SFr. 160 million in new constructions and structural alterations.

The second part of the competition involved designing the project’s two major new constructions – the hotel and the thermal baths. The architectural office Smolenicky & Partner won the project for the Tamina thermal baths, Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht Architects the project for the new hotel.

LANDSCAPE SITUATION
The town-planning character of the resort is dominated by large representative buildings set in an expansive park landscape. To this extent the resort clearly distinguishes itself from the identity of the village of Bad Ragaz. During the belle époque this principle of building monumental hotels in close vicinity to a village was successfully applied to a number of locations in the Swiss Alps. The most important examples are Interlaken, St. Moritz and Gstaad. In Bad Ragaz two cul-de-sacs fork off from the main road that runs through the golf course connecting Bad Ragaz and Maienfeld. In the new project the thermal baths were deliberately located on the cul-de-sac accessing the resort’s public facilities, such as the new conference centre in the renovated spa spring hall, the casino and the golf club house. The second cul-de-sac running along the park has been kept free to provide access to the three grand hotels, and emits a more private and calmer atmosphere.

FORM AND EXTERIOR SPACE
Instead of being freestanding, the form of the building volume emerges from the enclosing of exterior spaces. In the area of the open-air baths, for instance, the volume of the building is stepped back and opens out the sunbathing lawn to the wooded slopes of the mountain ridge. The view extends past the existing buildings, screened by newly planted groups of trees. The guests experience a park landscape that melts into woods and mountain slopes.

The predominant landscaped, park-like atmosphere remains intact despite the compact manner of building. Thus the resort remains characterized by its park. The main entrance to the thermal baths, the spa spring hall, is set on the visual axis of the cul-de-sac in order, from the main road, to mark its presence in the depth of the site as a public facility.

CRITERIA OF THE BUILDING
The Tamina thermal baths is explicitly conceived as a part of the grand-hotel culture. The cultural and aesthetic identity of the project seeks an affinity to both Swiss tradition and the grand hotels of the Baltic coast, such as Heiligendamm.

For this reason the building volume has a monumental character, in order to stand out as an institution equal to the other buildings in the resort. Simultaneously the thermal baths are intended to relativize the almost “urban” stonework character of the spa spring hall. This explains the snow-white woodwork of the thermal baths, lending it the pavilion-like character of the architecture of a historical holiday resort.

This strategy of using an explicit resort architecture is underscored in the building’s formally fanciful oval windows. Seen from the inside, the windows have the effect of over-dimensional picture frames. Oval picture frames were widespread in the Victorian era for landscape scenes, whereby the intention in the current project is to give specific expression to the view over the relatively neutral landscape by means of the gesture of the frame.

INTERIOR SPACE AS A “FOREST”
Metaphorically the creation of the interior spaces of the project has an analogy in cutting clearings in the pattern of a forest by felling individual trees. This is the reverse of the common design process. The exterior spaces are similarly created by “felling” supports on the periphery of the building volume. Structurally the building can be more or less seen as a forest, created out of columns instead of trees – a total of 115 supports using the timber of 2,200 fir-trees (this amount of wood is regenerated in Switzerland in two-and-a-half hours).

EXPRESSION AND MATERIAL
Materially the project possesses the same appearance internally and externally. The snow-white timber battens are carried over internally as wall surfacing. In this sense there is no actual interior architecture to the building, but instead only a whole architecture of the building.

The timber structure of the building is not merely determined by the criteria of the span of the supports. Instead of a focus on the engineering of the function of the supports and the reinforcement of a construction, the structure concentrates far more on spatial phenomena, creating a beauty and a ceremonial atmosphere. Bathing is celebrated as a cultivated activity.

Nike Inc Oregon Headquarter with Heliport

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Casa Edemar Cid Ferreira

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Suzlon

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Green roof Singapore



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ThyssenKrupp HQ

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Shantou island

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Camino Suites Bolivia

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Innovida and Sanyo Solar building

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Vertical Screen, Inc. Pennsylvania

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