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Foster Plans New Beijing HQ As Base for China Expansion FRIDAY August 12 2011 Issue 1977 £2.90 Making a splash bdonline.co.uk Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre may be late to the party “One would think that one was in a but arrives with a flourish P.12 subterranean city, that’s how heavy is the atmosphere, how profound is A special bond the darkness!” Eric Parry is drawn to Fritz Höger’s Hamburg brick masterpiece P.16 BUILDING DESIGN ARCHITECTS’ FAVOURITE WEEKLY INSIDE NEWS ANALYSIS Architecture Foster plans new Beijing HQ and the riots Urban planning expert Wouter Vanstiphout looks at what this week’s violence could mean as base for China expansion for UK city development. P.3 NEWS Firm’s office will neighbour Ai Weiwei gallery and promote Chinese art and architecture Alsop’s latest incarnation Ellis Woodman galleries, it will have a café. It will “There is an Bank Headquarters in Hangzhou should take the plunge. “If you are host exhibitions by young artists awareness of and a scheme designed in collab- immersed in those places instead The name of Will Alsop’s latest Foster & Partners is designing its and architects in China. It will the fragility oration with Thomas Heather- of reading about them in the press venture, with ex RMJM principal own headquarters building in have an apartment for an artist in of being overly wick for the upmarket Bund dis- you do get a very different experi- Scott Lawrie, will be registered China as the firm looks to expand residence. dependent trict of Shanghai. ence.” in the next few weeks. P.5 the amount of business it carries “It will also be a centre for our- on one place” Foster said the firm was eyeing The company’s 2011 results will out in the country. selves. It will have all the facilities Norman Foster more opportunities overseas, with be unveiled later this year but in Chairman Norman Foster told for designers. We’ll have work- Brazil thought to be high on its its most recent accounts, for the OPINION BD the new building in the shops and modelshops. That will list, because of continuing prob- year to April 2010, Foster’s had a Caochangdi area of Beijing would be our centre in that part of the presence of a renowned master of lems with parts of the global econ- turnover of £134 million with just ‘A sense of place go up next to the Three Shadows world.” [Foster’s] calibre here in Beijing omy such as the US and Europe. £10.5 million — less than 10% — matters more Photography Art Centre — Three Shadows co-founder and will have a very positive influence “[There is] an awareness of the coming from its UK operations. designed by dissident architect Ai director, Chinese artist RongRong, on architecture and other types of fragility of being overly depend- Its biggest operation was the in Suffolk than Weiwei four years ago — and said the news would promote art and culture.” ent on one place,” he admitted. Middle East at £60 million, while would be submitted for planning Beijing’s case as a cultural centre. Foster & Partners set up a base “You do get all these cyclical Asia,including China, had rev- some faux- later this year. He added: “It’s great news for in the Chinese capital back in upturns and downturns.” enues of £21 million. However, it Foster said: “It will in part be the entire city of Beijing as a truly 2003. Among the projects it is cur- But he said UK firms thinking did just £626,000 worth of busi- Olympian ideal public in the sense that it will have international cultural hub. The rently working on are the Citic about branching further overseas ness in South America. of modernity’ Jonathan Glancey doesn’t want a Tesco, traditional or modern. P.9 Paul Finch’s BUILDINGS nightmare The quality of Mersey This is what the 2012 Olympic Stadium might have looked 3XN/AEW’s botched Museum like had it been designed by a of Liverpool fails to match the traditional architect. needs of its sensitive site. P.10 BD asked Quinlan & Francis Terry, whose non-involvement in next year’s event was CULTURE described as a “good thing” by Paul Finch, to come up with The man who an alternative scheme. designed Britain Drawn by Francis Terry, a partner at the firm founded Bus stops, cabs, post boxes, by his father, it is reminiscent trains — the Design Museum’s of the Colosseum in Rome. Kenneth Grange retrospective While the design may appal underscores his influence. P.21 Finch, Francis Terry has backed the Design Council Cabe chairman’s views on the IT Olympics, saying “traditional architecture would look Social climbing ridiculous as part of the Social network sites like Twitter Olympic site”. and LinkedIn can lift your firm’s profile. Su Butcher shows how to ILLUSTRATION: FRANCIS TERRY ILLUSTRATION: SEE NEWS, P4 ; DEBATE, P9 build an online presence. P.22 INSIDE I LEADER 02 I LETTERS 08 I DEBATE 09 I OPINION 09 I BOOTS 09 I BUILDINGS 10 I INSPIRATION 16 I CULTURE 21 I IT 22 I LIFE CLASS 24 I ARCHIVE 24 WWW.BDONLINE.CO.UK FRIDAY AUGUST 12 2011 7 DRDH starts Aecom and on Bodø hall DRDH Architects has broken ground on a £65 million concert hall and library within Grimshaw the Arctic Circle in Norway. The buildings will fill the last two empty blocks in Bodø city centre, on the harbour edge. Much of Bodø was destroyed team wins by the Luftwaffe in the second world war. More than half its 6,000 inhabitants lost their homes in a single night in 1940. DRDH won a competition for in Brisbane the city’s cultural urban framework in 2008 and later triumphed in competitions for Multidisciplinary partners chosen the plan’s two principal buildings. to create ‘airport city’ masterplan The buildings will open on May 17 2014, Norway’s 200th Elizabeth Hopkirk World Architecture 100. anniversary. The practice beat BDP to win a A team led by Aecom has won the £4 billion masterplanning com- design competition to create a petition in Kuala Lumpur. 1,000ha masterplan for Brisbane’s It was among five shortlisted “airport city”. teams for the River of Life project The multi-disciplinary team, which will transform two polluted which features Grimshaw, beat rivers in the centre of the entries by Wilkinson Eyre and Malaysian capital. ARM working with fellow Aus- The longlist of 22 had to submit tralians Arkhefield. a comprehensive masterplan The winning team will now showing how 10km of waterfront work with Brisbane Airport Cor- along the Klang and Gombak poration to work up a detailed rivers could be turned into a focus masterplan by December for all its for development. developable land. They also had to come up with The airport’s first property mas- detailed proposals for two of the 11 terplan, it will also look at how to precincts earmarked for redevel- better connect the airport with the opment. city through physical infrastruc- The jury, which included the ture and urban design. UK architect and Stirling Prize The company is anxious to be winner Stephen Hodder, voted prepared for Queensland’s future unanimously for Aecom’s scheme. needs which include a rapidly All five shortlisted firms — expanding mining and resource which included one Korean and sector. two Malaysian firms — will receive The competition followed a a £60,000 honorarium. two-day atelier in April at which a large number of Brisbane-based architects, planners, urban designers and engineers came up with a number of visions for dif- ferent parts of the site. Almost 30 expressions of inter- est followed, which were eventu- ally reduced to a shortlist of three, each of which will receive an hon- orarium. A source close to one of the three said the competition had been fierce. The news comes hot on the heels of another big win for Aecom, which is the biggest archi- Aecom’s shortlisted plan for tect in the world according to BD’s the River of Life, Kuala Lumpur. Gensler’s Istanbul theme park looks to city’s past Gensler has won a design on Seven Hills. competition for a 150ha Turkey’s largest city, which mixed-use development in stands at the crossroads of Istanbul. Europe and Asia, has a It will contain the region’s history stretching back first theme park as well as 2,000 years. residential, office, retail, and “As the plan developed, we hospitality and 60ha of open kept both ‘new’ and ‘old’ in spaces and parks. mind,” said design director “This is a masterplanning Tom Sze. project that essentially “We’re incorporating best creates a city within a city, practices around planning, and we’re thrilled to be a part design and sustainability – of it,” says Marty Borko, building around existing principal and leader of transportation routes, Gensler’s mixed-use maximising proximity and practice. views to the lake, creating The City of Seven Gardens dynamic open spaces – while masterplan was inspired by respecting the region’s rich Istanbul’s nickname, the City history and culture.”.
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