Located in Shenzen, China Resources Headquarters is a super-tall skyscraper designed the architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. The 400 meter tower features a tube and diagrid system based on prefabricated column and steel units. It affords column-free interiors, in turn allowing greater expression of the tower's radial symmetry and more boutique floor-plates as it rises. The 56 vertical columns converge into 28 columns at the tower and upper section of the tower, forming a series of entry portals at the tower's base and merging to a singular point at its peak.
Give Hong Kong to an Artist. He can use it. It can be poetised – Baris Gencel. Hong Kong 60's heritage, a five connecting buildings in Quarry Bay, namely Oceanic Mansion, Fook Cheong Building, Montane Mansion, Yick Cheong Building and Yick Fat Building, are a perfect reflection of city’s famed urban density. The photogenic architecture of this housing complex has been featured in many Hollywood blockbusters.
Straits-born Chinese – the Peranakan (which means “born of”) – are largely the descendants of Chinese immigrants who came to Indonesia, Malaysia, ans Singapore in the 17th century and married local women. The Peranakan culture, a hybrid southeast Asian culture of Chinese, Malay and Indian influences, also has esoteric Portuguese, Dutch and Indonesian traces. Peranakan architecture or also known as Chinese Baroque, Tropical Renaissance architecture amongst many other names, consists of rich and wide range of architectural vocabulary derived from the hybrid of that western and eastern styles and traditions. Photo taken in Pinang Peranakan Mansion.
