Taizhou City Cultural and Creative Industry Building, render courtesy Miliy Design

Taizhou City Cultural and Creative Industry Building, render courtesy Miliy Design

Taizhou city is a hilly area. The natural mountain landscape is the very unique backdrop of the city.

From ancient time, natural mountain and river is the inspiration of Chinese painter. Culture and landscape has the mutual connection from then. Chinese painting prefers the abstract way to express the more real images in their mind, such as the masterpiece: "Fuchun Mountain, Gongwang Huang" as famous of its abstract strokes.

Taizhou City Cultural and Creative Industry Building, render courtesy Miliy Design

Chinese contemporary art somehow inherited this tradition. Shanghai artist Yongliang Huang uses current architecture as the image resource to photomontage then into the tradition Chinese painting.

Taizhou City Cultural and Creative Industry Building, render courtesy Miliy Design

This project is located in Taizhou city with the program of creative industry. The idea to creates a unique façade to draw attentions becomes the perfect opportunity to combine the local landscape and traditional Chinese painting expression by using modern computer techniques.

The first floor uses color glass to enrich the atmosphere of commercial space of young people.

The second floor provides the space for art and culture education with the outdoor terrace full of natural landscape.

The sunk garden increase the useable area with natural light and ventilation.

+ Project facts

Project Name: Taizhou City Cultural and Creative Industry Building
Architects: Miliy Design | www.miliy.com
Location: Taizhou, Zhejiang, P.R.China
Architect In Charge: Steven Wang,
Design Team: Frank Wang, Leilei Li
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 18,836 sqm
Developer: Zhejiang Hongxing Real Estate Co., Ltd.

+ All images and drawings courtesy Miliy Design

“Inter Cities / Intra Cities: GHOSTWRITING THE FUTURE?”, the exhibition organized by Hong Kong Institute of Architects and Hong Kong Arts Development Council as collateral event at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia.

The Hong Kong based architectural practice, Oval Partnership, has been appointed as curator of the Hong Kong exhibition which takes the 320 hectare Kowloon East regeneration area as its subject; one of the largest urban regeneration projects in Asia, and a district based around the ghost of a former airport.

Amidst a global financial crisis, Hong Kong has emerged to deliver a regeneration project which will take sustainable urbanism to a new level. This is a reinvention of a large part of the city and we believe it is a fascinating place to postulate and observe how the new architectural culture of a consumerist, investment intensive, super-connected, high density but socio-politically only half- awakened city, might evolve.

Christopher Law, Founding Director of Oval Partnership

The opening ceremony of “Inter Cities / Intra Cities: GHOSTWRITING THE FUTURE” will be held on Monday, August 27, 2012 (Arsenale, Campo della Tana, Castello 2126 in Venice, Italy). The exhibition will be open to the public until November 25, 2012.

IBÉRICO lamp, image courtesy Alberto Gorgojo

The Spanish designer Alberto Gorgojo presents the IBÉRICO lamp, inspired by one of the most iconic object of the culture of his country, the ham or "jamón serrano". Manufactured by master craftsman Joaquin García Huertos, the lighting object is comprised of different leathers where the combination of thin goat skin and thick cow hide provides a contrast in material opacity.

IBÉRICO lamp, image courtesy Alberto Gorgojo

IBÉRICO lamp, image courtesy Alberto Gorgojo

The lamp holder refers to the rope with which they usually hang these legs of ham in the drying process, and is made of a bent tube wrapped in rope. This structure create a visual composition to look like it is rigid since the floor.

This design belongs to the series Artesanía & Diseño (Craft & Design) being developed with different Spanish craftsman.

IBÉRICO lamp, image courtesy Alberto Gorgojo

+ Designer: Alberto Gorgojo

+ All images  courtesy Alberto Gorgojo