Comments on: Longgang City Centre by Mecanoo architecten

By: Don

Don — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:34:13 +0000

Yes Patrick you are totally right with your statement!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:25:21 +0000

The way they cited Bakema has it originality, but the OMA part has just been copied

By: Sempre

Sempre — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:37:20 +0000

This competition was a masterplan!! The buildings placed in the scheme are only ilustrative of the future possible building typologies and spacial characteristics. They are not going to be the future buildings of the masterplan! Please don’t take things so literally and be more imaginative, instead of making inconstructive criticism.

By: dsmith

dsmith — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:38:13 +0000

I hope the masterplan is successful; that the collection of architectural ‘influences’ is simply to articulate and act as placeholders for the spatial characteristics of the masterplan until the individual buildings can be developed in their own right.

It would be good to see the plan itself and how different uses interact.

By: gab xiao

gab xiao — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:42:10 +0000

Francine & Co have been playing with this for a while.I saw Mecanoo pushing this scheme somewhere else. It resembles OMA’s project indeed, but it has its own originality. There’s also some Arquitectonica (alas!) blood running through its veins as well. We’re heading to a pit-bull-like breed of architecture…

Overall I love it, and Shenzhen deserves a rather deluxe knock-off than what has gathered so far (Richard Meier’s Millenium Cathedral in Rome and Foster’s Century Tower in Tokyo can be found there)