Healing the world's cities

Healing the world's cities | Sponge city and sponge planet

1．Project Statement Bahe Landscape Bridge is located in the center of Olympic sports center area. Due to the upcoming National Games in Sep 2021, there is an urgent to build a landscape bridge over Bahe river to ease the flow of people from four landmark buildings and the whole Olympic sports area. Besides, it also can improve greenway connections on the east and west sides of Bahe River to complete 295km “Sanheyishan Greenway” connections. The total length of Xi'an Bahe Landscape Bridg...

1．Project Statement “Tangshan Super Greenway” is planned and designed by the Turenscape led by Professor Kongjian Yu of Peking University. The first phase is a 10.5 km barrier-free greenway connecting all kinds of ecological resources in Tangshan. First, super greenway is a convenient facility for the people. Based on the function of pedestrian overpass, it integrates the concept of Greenway and realizes the continuous barrier-free paths from Donghu park to Nanhu Park. Second,...

There was an inevitability about this rise of concrete. Across the world, concrete has become a sign of development. In theory, the worthy goal of human progress is measured by a series of economic and social signs, such as life-expectancy (how long people will live), infant mortality (how many children under the age of two die) and education levels. But to political leaders, by far the most important measurement is gross domestic product, a measure of economic activity that, more often than not...

The design is to integrate the planning, architecture and landscape, so that the whole project shows a high degree of unity and harmony, and become the gate image of the Linzhou scenic spot. The landscape design considers the “combination of soft and hard”. It will form a spectacle of alternating green belts and cliffs after years of afforestation and natural restoration. The planning will combine the site topography, use the elevation difference and sight condition, protect the current veget...

Inspired by the shape of ancient books, the designer uses horizontal lines as the main elements to form the concise and rhythmic outer skin of the building. The top of the building covers by a large number of windows, and the inner facade is composed of membrane structure. When the sun shines in, there is a hazy artistic conception. Combined with the marble floor pavement, antique scroll decoration over the middle hall and a little water system, it creates a quiet and solemn atmosphere, whic...

The project is built in Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, the hometown of Mao Dun and Feng Zikai, covering 1.47 hectares’ area. The design concept is crossshape of a long letter and a scroll. The whole letter block is raised by 5meters, crosses the river, and is built on the scroll to free up the ground public space. At the same time, it solves the problems of inconvenient connection between the north and south plots and limited land use.

China's central government has an ambitious green infrastructure plan. But will the results live up to the rhetoric?