Cultural district
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about cultural district
Project • By the Oval partnership • Parks/Gardens
Shenzhen Bay Cultural Centre
Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza is poised to become a world-class culture-led mixed-use development in the Bay Area.
The project is located at the Houhai district of Nanshan, Shenzhen, comprising a dozen of land parcels dissected by major thoroughfares. The Oval Partnership's winning concept is to stitch these pockets of land and surrounding urban fabric back together, bridging the hinterland with a new coastline the Bay, connecting transit and culture, landmarks and open spaces, places and people. Digital Placemaking was employed from the inception of the Shenzhen Bay Masterplanning process. Connectivity, pedestrian flow, and hybrid visual field metrics were leveraged to optimise footfall along with point-of-interest clustering analysis provi... More
Project • By Kjellander Sjöberg • Cities
Cultural Block Östersund
Östersund municipality, together with the real estate company Diös, has initiated a research into potential ways of transforming the Gustav III´s Square into an attractive urban hub with rich content and new places for social interaction. The new square, currently used by bus traffic, will be equipped with a new city library, a concert hall, art school, hotel, residential buildings and businesses, thus becoming an inviting gathering point for the residents of Östersund. It will include transparent street-level amenities and public spaces, providing both indoor and outdoor facilities of high quality for all ages, year-round.Two principles combinedThe point of departure for KS proposal is an understanding of the existing qualities of the city... More
Project • By MAD Architects • Cultural Centres
Harbin Opera House
MAD Architects unveils the completed Harbin Opera House, located in the Northern Chinese city of Harbin. In 2010, MAD won the international open competition for Harbin Cultural Island, a master plan for an opera house, a cultural center, and the surrounding wetland landscape along Harbin’s Songhua River. The sinuous opera house is the focal point of the Cultural Island, occupying a building area of approximately 850,000 square feet of the site’s 444 acres total area. It features a grand theater that can host over 1,600 patrons and a smaller theater to accommodate an intimate audience of 400.
Embedded within Harbin’s wetlands, the Harbin Opera House was designed in response to the force and spirit of the northern city’s untamed wilderness... More
Project • By Klingmann Architects + Brand Consultants • Masterplans
Mixed Use Community
This sustainable mixed-use community combines office and residential; hotel, retail and entertainment space, creating an urban network readily responsive to people's needs. Nine experiential zones lead to various water features, urban attractions, and green elements. More