Chinese Ice-Snow Museum Inspired by Winter Olympic Games

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Construction of the main structure of the Chongli Overseas Chinese Ice-Snow Museum, located in China, completed 12 days ahead of schedule. As the first museum themed by Winter Olympic Games, it’s also the largest ice and snow museum in the country with the most abundant exhibits. With a total investment of about 300 million yuan, the museum is designed by Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chief Architect of China Architectural Design and Research Institute Cui Kai, and built by China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd. It adopts the “two-in-one” construction mode for the museum and library, with … Read more

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Exploring 3 New Major Venues for Asian Games in Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center

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On April 22, the video broadcast of the three major venues for the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, which was invested, built and operated by CSCEC, was aired with more than 1.2 million people viewing it online on mainstream Chinese media. Located on the south bank of Qiantang River, with a total construction area of 582,000 square meters, the three venues include the main arena, the aquatics center and the comprehensive training center in Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center. The combination of the main arena and the aquatics center is the largest-connected nonlinear modelling in the world, like a silver butterfly. … Read more

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Guiyang Shubo Wanda Plaza Reaches Construction Milestone

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Guiyang Shubo Wanda Plaza, a large-scale urban complex benchmarking project in Southwest China’s Guizhou province, capped out its primary structure 19 days ahead of schedule. The plaza is being constructed by Sinohydro Bureau 9 Co, a subsidiary of POWERCHINA, and will be a landmark building in the provincial capital of Guiyang. The development is in Yunyan district, with a total construction area of 280,000 square meters and the main building’s height reaching 164.45 meters. It is estimated that in the next five years, the total area of houses around the plaza will be close to 20 million square meters, with … Read more

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BIG’s Pleated Skyscraper Completes in Shenzhen

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The new home for Shenzhen Energy Company looks different because it performs differently: the building skin is developed to maximize the sustainable performance and workplace comfort in the local subtropical climate of China’s tech and innovation hub in Shenzhen. The 96,000-square-meter office development for the state-owned Shenzhen Energy Company is designed to look and feel at home in the cultural, political and business center of Shenzhen, while standing out as a new social and sustainable landmark at the main axis of the city. BIG won the international design competition in the city known as China’s “Silicon Valley” with ARUP and … Read more

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