Comments on: Raffles City Hangzhou by UNStudio

By: pana

pana — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:47:10 +0000

alguien que tenga una planta o esquema de este edificio??

By: viggo

viggo — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:29:33 +0000

If someone pushed the limits of this typology, it's OMA

By: J

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:39:15 +0000

Well, I feel that basically the market for governing urban level coherence/aethetics is missing.

The issue is perhaps more like an economic one rather than architectural. cos I am pretty sure architects know how to think on urban level but they eventually work for the developers, who are enterprices that exist to make money. And to do that, they look at immediate sourrounding and metro.

There are a number of regulations such as the height and orientation constrains by the authority to pay respect to the lake but that’s about it. we should be thankful that the authority even stipulated ample landscape and setback requirements on ground level.

If someone can actually think of a way to put a price on those qualities which are large scale/ contextual/historically sensitive etc. then the architects should have no prob delivering. Afterall, no one wants to do things that are not really paid well in the market.

By: Margaret Lee

Margaret Lee — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:52:30 +0000

oh no, pleeease don’t put this building in Hangzhou!!!! Agree with Marvis Lian. Keep these buildings in New York, or Dubai. I don’t hate it, but it really does not have the beautiful and natural flow of forms that is unique of Zaha’s creations. I love the Chanel exhibition design I visited in Hong Kong.

By: Katsudon

Katsudon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:25:43 +0000

I have the same feeling as Mavin Lian. I know very well Hangzhou and love this city!
I’m caught between two feelings.
The old city of Hangzhou have completly disapeared! If you want to remember the ancient beauty of the city, you have then to go along the West Lake and close your eyes to ignore the modern city center that have no architectural or urban interest.
Despite of this the landscape, from the lake in the city center to the tea fields in the hills is an enchantement! Hangzhou is absolutely a lovely place providing no ending discoveries and deserves a real reflection on it’s urban renewal! There’s great things to bring to this city!
I don’t think that UN’s OBJECT is ugly, and i know the district this will take place is not architecturaly sensible (it’s outside the city center, completely newly urbanised with wide speedways along which spreads a kind of urban tower park), but this PROJECT looks just nothing more than a vase dropped into the city! You could take it, drop it in another completely different place and change the text to make it match with the new location. But this is typical of what happen everywhere in China. I know they probably had no time/informations or whatever to work on a larger scale and think urban impact “for real”. But come on, stop those excuses texts, it’s like making fun of the audience!
Look at chinese architects doing a IN DEPTH exciting job, like Urbanus most of time, Pei Zhu very often and Wang Shu everytime!!! They give me hope for chinese urban landscape!

UN, PLEASE DON’T PIMP MY HANGZHOU.