Zeitschrift
archithese 4.2008
Peking 2008 + Shanghai
In 2001 the decision was reached to award the 2008 Summer Olympic Games to Beijing. Since then the Chinese capital has experienced an unprecedented surge of modernization. The new sports stadium by Herzog & de Meuron, also known as the
„bird’s nest“, as well as the „water cube“ of the aquatic stadium designed by the Australian PTW team are considered to be the most well-known symbols of the new Beijing. The design of the Wukesong Basketball Stadium by Burckhardt Partner from Basel was stopped, and then built by a Chinese office in an altered form.
Besides the Olympic structures, a further series of spectacular buildings are being and have been built by international architects: the offices of the CCTV State Broadcasting System by OMA, The National Opera by Paul Andreu, and the „linked hybrid“ housing project by Steven Holl.
The most important newsworthy buildings are documented in depth in this edition. Furthermore, we consider Peking’s urban development as well as the competing metropolis of Shanghai. Whereas Shanghai, the country’s cultural hot spot, was long seen as China’s intrinsic gate to the West, Beijing has caught up in the last few years. The boom in Chinese art has led to the establishment of entire new atelier and art districts within a few years.
Without a doubt, China is not a country that corresponds to western notions of democracy. And equally without doubt is that China has carried out a seemingly irreversible process of opening within roughly the last three decades since the devastation of the Cultural Revolution. The latest heated debate concerning the moral legitimacy of building in China came oddly late. Around the year 2000, when China was hyped up to be virtually the Promised Land for western architects (and the political state of affairs was not really any better than today), moral misgivings were hardly to be heard. The media’s attention, which is focused upon the country ahead of the games, explains the latest debate, in which both sides have barricaded themselves in ideological trenches. This issue attempts to direct an evenhanded look at architecture in China and its varied manifestations.
The editors
02 Editorial
18 Urban Landscape – New Beijing | Hubertus Adam
20 Peking: Kalligrafie und Panorama
22 Pekings Weg zur globalen Metropole: Die «nördliche Hauptstadt» als Modell für die sozial-räumliche und politisch-symbolische Ordnung Chinas | Robert Kaltenbrunner
28 Die chinesische Versuchung: Architektur und Moral | Sascha Delz
32 Viel Schaum um nichts? Wunderwürfel aus Plastik: die neue Olympiaschwimmhalle in Peking | Albert Lohr
38 Komplexität und Einfachheit - Herzog & de Meuron: Nationalstadion in Peking | Hubertus Adam
46 Neue Bauten in Peking: Digital Beijing, Linked Hybrid, SOHO Shangdu | Hubertus Adam
48 Wider die Architecture Parlante OMA: CCTV und TVCC | Hubertus Adam
54 Unter schimmernder Kuppel - Paul Andreu: National Theatre for the Performing Arts | Hubertus Adam
60 Grosser Drache - Lord Norman Foster: Terminal 3 des Flughafens Peking | Hubertus Adam
66 Grass-Roots-Branding
Ai Weiwei und Caochangdi | Eduard Kögel
72 Shanghai: Kalligrafie und Panorama
74 Organische Dezentralisation: Emigranten aus Europa planen zwischen 1945 und 1949 für Gross-Shanghai | Eduard Kögel
80 Auf der Suche nach Identität: Stadtplanung in Shanghai | Hubertus Adam
Architektur aktuell
86 Valerio Olgiati: Bürohaus in Flims | J. Christoph Bürkle
Rubriken
92 Buchrezension Cecil Balmond: Element | Sonja Hildebrand
95 Buchrezension Jasper Cepl: Oswald Mathias Ungers | Ulrich Brinkmann
96 Buchrezension Amsoneit/Ollenik: Zeitmaschine Architektur | Robert Kaltenbrunner
97 Neues aus der Industrie
103 Lieferbare Hefte
104 Vorschau und Impressum
„bird’s nest“, as well as the „water cube“ of the aquatic stadium designed by the Australian PTW team are considered to be the most well-known symbols of the new Beijing. The design of the Wukesong Basketball Stadium by Burckhardt Partner from Basel was stopped, and then built by a Chinese office in an altered form.
Besides the Olympic structures, a further series of spectacular buildings are being and have been built by international architects: the offices of the CCTV State Broadcasting System by OMA, The National Opera by Paul Andreu, and the „linked hybrid“ housing project by Steven Holl.
The most important newsworthy buildings are documented in depth in this edition. Furthermore, we consider Peking’s urban development as well as the competing metropolis of Shanghai. Whereas Shanghai, the country’s cultural hot spot, was long seen as China’s intrinsic gate to the West, Beijing has caught up in the last few years. The boom in Chinese art has led to the establishment of entire new atelier and art districts within a few years.
Without a doubt, China is not a country that corresponds to western notions of democracy. And equally without doubt is that China has carried out a seemingly irreversible process of opening within roughly the last three decades since the devastation of the Cultural Revolution. The latest heated debate concerning the moral legitimacy of building in China came oddly late. Around the year 2000, when China was hyped up to be virtually the Promised Land for western architects (and the political state of affairs was not really any better than today), moral misgivings were hardly to be heard. The media’s attention, which is focused upon the country ahead of the games, explains the latest debate, in which both sides have barricaded themselves in ideological trenches. This issue attempts to direct an evenhanded look at architecture in China and its varied manifestations.
The editors
02 Editorial
18 Urban Landscape – New Beijing | Hubertus Adam
20 Peking: Kalligrafie und Panorama
22 Pekings Weg zur globalen Metropole: Die «nördliche Hauptstadt» als Modell für die sozial-räumliche und politisch-symbolische Ordnung Chinas | Robert Kaltenbrunner
28 Die chinesische Versuchung: Architektur und Moral | Sascha Delz
32 Viel Schaum um nichts? Wunderwürfel aus Plastik: die neue Olympiaschwimmhalle in Peking | Albert Lohr
38 Komplexität und Einfachheit - Herzog & de Meuron: Nationalstadion in Peking | Hubertus Adam
46 Neue Bauten in Peking: Digital Beijing, Linked Hybrid, SOHO Shangdu | Hubertus Adam
48 Wider die Architecture Parlante OMA: CCTV und TVCC | Hubertus Adam
54 Unter schimmernder Kuppel - Paul Andreu: National Theatre for the Performing Arts | Hubertus Adam
60 Grosser Drache - Lord Norman Foster: Terminal 3 des Flughafens Peking | Hubertus Adam
66 Grass-Roots-Branding
Ai Weiwei und Caochangdi | Eduard Kögel
72 Shanghai: Kalligrafie und Panorama
74 Organische Dezentralisation: Emigranten aus Europa planen zwischen 1945 und 1949 für Gross-Shanghai | Eduard Kögel
80 Auf der Suche nach Identität: Stadtplanung in Shanghai | Hubertus Adam
Architektur aktuell
86 Valerio Olgiati: Bürohaus in Flims | J. Christoph Bürkle
Rubriken
92 Buchrezension Cecil Balmond: Element | Sonja Hildebrand
95 Buchrezension Jasper Cepl: Oswald Mathias Ungers | Ulrich Brinkmann
96 Buchrezension Amsoneit/Ollenik: Zeitmaschine Architektur | Robert Kaltenbrunner
97 Neues aus der Industrie
103 Lieferbare Hefte
104 Vorschau und Impressum
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