Research
26 October 2015
Mediating Scale, Performance and Iconicity: A 21st Century Supertall Tower for Guiyang
Yuping Luo, Zhongtian Urban Development Group Co., Ltd; Charles Besjak, Daniel Cashen & Colin Koop, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
A series of challenging site constraints prompted an innovative structural solution for the Guizhou Culture Plaza Tower (GCP), through which a new performance-based expression was...
26 October 2015
High-Density, Mixed-Use Developments and the Guiyang Riverside Theatre Project
Greg Yager, RTKL
Guiyang Riverside Theatre project illustrates the strategies necessary to create responsible and profitable high-density, mixed-use developments that capture the full potential of a site, specifically...
26 October 2015
Macro-Policy to Micro-Implementation: Responses to China’s Inward Migration in Guiyang’s City Center
Thomas Balsley, Thomas Balsley Associates; Daniel O'Shaughnessy & Collin Koop, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Yuping Luo, Zhongtian Urban Development Group Co., Ltd
Investment in China’s interior has shifted as a result of the 12th Five-Year Plan’s imperative towards medium-size western cities and away from the major coastal...
26 October 2015
Guiyang World Trade Center: An Essay on the Concrete Tube Structure
Scott Duncan, Brant Coletta & Rami Abou-Khalil, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Yuping Luo, Zhongtian Urban Development Group Co., Ltd
The acute global concern about resource depletion is driving a reconsideration of the tall-building typology. Expectations for energy and material efficiencies are always increasing –...
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