Fake Nylon

There’s tons of art exhibition and some travelling museum these days. But Karl Lagerfeld, the man behind Chanel, chose to bring the idea to a totally different level. A truely mobile exhibition, even the space is a piece of art itself. Karl Lagerfeld commissioned Zaha Hadid to design a mobile and collapsible container to house works from 20 brilliant artists around the world. This mothership had landed in Hong Kong, hopefully, more cities to go, so world can have a glimpse at this amazing mothership.

[Source: Chanel Mobile Muesum & Wallpaper ]
[Image from Wallpaper]

Beijing. 17 milion people. 16,801 km². Tons of cars. It’s the new vibrant city of Asia. Just get back from Beijing, which was pretty different from what I first though it was. It’s a mixed between Taiwan, Tang Dynasty and the playground of some world-class architects. While the whole was great and some of the architecture are simply breathtaking.

Commune By the Great Wall

Resort villas like they just pops out of the Wallpaper magazines. Conceptualise by Ms Zhang Xin, designed by 12 of Asia’s best known architects. Later, bought over by the Kempinski Hotel Group. Simply amazing if we could have US$1000 to spare that day.

[Source: Wikipedia & Commune]

Beijing National Stadium

Design by Herzog & de Meuro, together Ai Weiwei as Artistic Consultant. This new stadium will sit 100,000 spectators during the Olympics. 400 over milions to build.

[Source: Wikipedia]

Beijing National Aquatics Centre

65,000 square feet. 17000 capacity. This gaint bubble cube will be hosting the aquatic events for the upcoming Olympics in 2008. Designed by Australia’s PTW Architects, engineering firm Arup, and China State Construction Design International, the Water Cube has a structural system unlike any other building. The engineers are use “two layers of a high-performance plastic film called ethylene tetrafluoroethylene or ETFE.”

[Source: Gizmodo]

CCTV Headquarters

234 feet skyscaper stood in the middle of Beijing CBD is the new CCTV HQ. 2 enormous oblique towers will connect at floor, forming one of the greatest modern architecture of current time. Design by . Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, they sure bring they ideas to the wildest.

[Source: Wikipedia & BlogBlog]

Linked Hybrid

The sky city that can house 2,500 people in 700 apartments with one of the world’s largest geothermal cooling and heating systems. The housing standards in Beijing will be bought to another realm, challenging other world-class housing towers.

[Source: We-make-money-not-art & worldtraveldirectories]

Digital Building

Last is a strange harddisk looking building near the site of National Stadium and the watercube. The bus driver told us it’s a news centre. It’s Digital Beijing Building is to eplore the digital age in a unique way, the building will serve as the control and data center for this 2008 Olympics. But this is madness. It looks like something from Matrix.

[Source: Miragestudio7]