October 22 by iLH.

Poly International Plaza, 300m
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Xinhua International Building, 238m
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Unted International, 330m
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Westin Hotel, 235m
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ASE Center R1, 193m
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Cathay Opera
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Sheraton Twins, 218m
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Longfor May Raise HK$7.1 Billion in IPO, E-Mail Says

Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Longfor Properties Co., the largest developer in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, may raise as much as HK$7.1 billion ($916 million) in a Hong Kong initial public offering, according to a share sale document.

Longfor plans to sell 1 billion new shares, or a 20 percent stake, at HK$6.06 to HK$7.10 each, said the document e-mailed to fund managers today. The sale values the company at HK$35.5 billion, or 14 times 2010 earnings, as estimated by banks involved in the sale.

Longfor, backed by Temasek Holdings Pte and Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., is pushing ahead with the IPO after a flurry of similar share sales by Chinese developers were shelved or downsized as the stock market declined and more property companies offered shares. Five Chinese developers, including Longfor, Evergrande Real Estate Group Ltd. and Yuzhou Properties Co., began marketing their Hong Kong IPOs last month.

“In terms of fundamentals, Longfor is quite privileged, given its landbank covers major cities in northern and western China,” said Wang Ren, a Hong Kong-based analyst at CCB International Co., by telephone today. “They are in a strong market position, they’re quite niche as they focus on the luxury segment. There are too many choices now, so investors have to be very selective. Some of the IPOs are very low-quality.”

Longfor was the largest developer in terms of the gross floor area of residential projects sold in the three years to 2008 in Chongqing, according to a draft share sale prospectus. With 30 million people, Chongqing is the largest and most populous of China’s four municipalities.

Since 2008 it has expanded to other Chinese cities, including Chengdu, Xian, Beijing and Shanghai.

Cornerstones

China’s home prices rebounded this year as the government implemented a $585 billion stimulus package and banks extended a record $1.27 trillion of credit to spur a recovery in the world’s third-largest economy. Home prices rose at the fastest pace in a year in September.

Prices in 70 Chinese cities climbed 2.8 percent from a year earlier after gaining 2 percent in August, the National Bureau of Statistics said in October.

Five institutions, including the Government of Singapore Investment Corp. and Temasek, the city-state’s two state-owned investment companies, and Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China’s second-biggest insurer, will buy a combined $197.5 million worth of Longfor’s IPO shares as “cornerstone investors,” said the share sale document.

Companies use cornerstone investors, who are guaranteed shares in an IPO by agreeing not to sell their investments for a few months, to attract other buyers to their offerings.

Yuzhou

“At the end of the day its all about market sentiment, timing and at the moment everyone is cautious in case we get a major correction,” said Andrew Sullivan, a sales trader at Mainfirst Securities Hong Kong Ltd. in Hong Kong. “Obviously it helps if you can raise the profile by getting cornerstone investors.”

Yuzhou Properties Co., a Xiamen, southern China-based property developer, declined as much as 10 percent on its debut in Hong Kong today and was trading 7 percent lower at HK$2.51 as of 10:44 a.m. local time. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 2 percent. Yuzhou raised HK$1.5 billion selling shares at HK$2.70 last month.

Twenty-six Chinese property developer IPOs in Hong Kong since 2003 have raised a combined $15.1 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Excellence Real Estate Group Ltd., the largest developer in Shenzhen’s central business district, last month delayed a Hong Kong IPO that could have raised as much as $1 billion, according to a company statement.

Mingfa Group (International) Co., a developer in the southern Chinese provinces of Fujian and Jiangsu, last week decided to restart its IPO at a later date and cut the top end of an offering range by 24 percent, it said in a statement.

Citigroup Inc., Morgan Stanley and UBS AG are managing the Longfor sale, which is scheduled to be priced Nov. 12. The stock will start trading Nov. 19.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3zR.5ezqHlo&pos=4

November 2 by yan33662005
Yingli Tower, 318m.
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Xinhua Intl Building, 238m.
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November 2 by christpher1005.
Financial Center, by SOM
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Cathay Opera, by shanghaisoundbites at Flickr
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanghaisound/

Huge render of Ma Yansong's project. 400m~, 88 floors.
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Is Cathay Opera on hold? I really hope that it is still going.

Is Cathay Opera on hold? I really hope that it is still going.

It isn't on hold. That pic was probably taken during the National Day holidays.

Chun Sen Bi An project. The tallest towers will be 2x172m, 56 floors. Pics by 达历山德罗.
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Can't wait to see the whole plan completed.
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I guess these are all residentials? They look very nice, hopefully in future, there will be more water in the river and less of the sides visible

nice!!

some good looking residentials :D:D

This City look so much like New York City.
It's maybe even better ...

Damn!
Chonquing is such a juicy city! I am thoroughly impressed! :)

To the contrary, I think they look like slums. In several years they will look as dated as the Tours Aillaud in Paris, or the Riverside Plaza in Minneapolis.

I guess these are all residentials? They look very nice, hopefully in future, there will be more water in the river and less of the sides visible

I wonder how they are planning to handle the growing traffic, the metro network including the lines UC and planned is IMO not enough to handle all the people that are going to work in all those towers. The chaotic road network is like those in cities like central London, Paris and Madrid, all hell to drive in during rush hour, even though they have excellent public transport moving billions of commuters. And since the city sits on hills, walking any further than a few blocks is out of the question. The day Chongqing reaches car ownership similar to those cities, 0.6-0.7 cars per inhabitant, the road network will collapse and 24H traffic jams will be the norm.

^^Underground city highways network, it's in planning for a while i think. Chongqing is to become the most important center for whole that part of the country, so i'm sure that they can realize such an ambitious projects. :cheers:

To the contrary, I think they look like slums. In several years they will look as dated as the Tours Aillaud in Paris, or the Riverside Plaza in Minneapolis.

I don't think you realised that it wass developed by one of China's most respected LUXURY property developer-Longfor group. This group never disappointed its FANS and it has the best customer reputation amongst Chinese property developers. You should look at Longfor's old projects. They are CONSTANTLY well maintained unlike those ugly LOW END apartments in Paris or in the US.

I wonder how they are planning to handle the growing traffic, the metro network including the lines UC and planned is IMO not enough to handle all the people that are going to work in all those towers. The chaotic road network is like those in cities like central London, Paris and Madrid, all hell to drive in during rush hour, even though they have excellent public transport moving billions of commuters. And since the city sits on hills, walking any further than a few blocks is out of the question. The day Chongqing reaches car ownership similar to those cities, 0.6-0.7 cars per inhabitant, the road network will collapse and 24H traffic jams will be the norm.

This city is well known to be a multi-centered city, otherwise you'll see far more office towers in the peninsula than it is today.:lol: I agree that Chongqing should build faster its public transport particularly subways though.

Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man website has just added a new project in Chongqing. 285m, 69 floors, Shapingba district.

Site Area : 37,500m²
Total Gross Floor Area : 375,000m²
Residential Area : 183,500m²
No. of Residential Units : 1,800
Hotel Area : 57,000m²
Hotel Room No. : 360
Commercial Area : 89,500m²
Serviced Apartment Area : 45,000m²
No. of Storeys Above Ground : 42-69
No. of Podium Floors : 4
No. of Basement Floors : 3
No. of Blocks : 5
Building Height : 167.75m - 285m

http://www.dln.com.hk/intro.html

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Renders of the Westin Hotel, 236m.
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November 21 by 平常心看世界

Cathay Opera
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CQWFC
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Xinhua Intl Building, 238m
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United International, 330m.
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Westin Hotel, 231m
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Poly Tower, 300m
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Yingli Tower, 318m
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Jiangbei Financial Center, 150m+
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Kempinski Hotel, 220m
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Lanko complex. 258m.
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Changjiang Travel Plaza, 270m
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Changjiang International, 2x195m.
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Sheraton twins, 2x218m
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Crowne Plaza, 2x210m.
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Around...
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now we r booming again with good ones cheers

more to come next year

preview

one proposal for A Bank Tower in jiangbei city

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Thats an almost exact copy of the aqua tower in chicago... But nice though!

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Thats an almost exact copy of the aqua tower in chicago... But nice though!

yes i know

like i said only one proposal

they have to be crazy to chose this one as final

i just wanna show u guys how great this project will be

the height , and how far the direction of the concept will go

believe me this is not the final

That one is perfect, macpolo!
Keep posting stuff :D

That one is perfect, macpolo!
Keep posting stuff :D

nope

cant let those cats out of the freaking bag:lol:

That bank tower is super cool

Yes, that one looks very nice, but is clearly a copy of Chicago's Aqua.

ASE Center R1. 193m. November 22 by voicewing
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MOCO Center, 200m+. By sanmier
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Lianglukou project, 2x180m+. By 平常心看世界
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What a blatant ripoff! This is a carbon copy of the Aqua tower in Chicago.

The architect should be publicly executed for forgery and lack of ingenuity.

What a blatant ripoff! This is a carbon copy of the Aqua tower in Chicago.

The architect should be publicly executed for forgery and lack of ingenuity.

It could very well be the same architect that did the Aqua tower, it's not uncommon that architects and or architect firms just recycle their own stuff.

The architect should be publicly executed for forgery and lack of ingenuity.

Do you know who this architect is? no, so stfu.

Chongqing Grand Theatre and Science Museum in Jiangbei New City CBD
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Wow, amazing buildings-- both of them.

Looks so robotic!

Another boxy project for Jiangbei New City CBD. Chongqing Bank Tower, by KPF.
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Ground breaking ceremony.
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No height, no floors, no decent renders.

comes along／／／／ all in jingbeicity that tiny area
chongqing wharf tower 376m
chongqing rural commercial bank tower 320m
chongqing china agriculture bank tower
chongqing china bank tower
chongqing devellope tower 155m
chongqing cadreg tower 155m
chongqing icbc tower
south west securities headquarter
park place

haha yes another booming section is here

all start soon 。。。。。

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seems like 4 towers not 2

not only jiangbei city is booming

look at yuzhong peninsuala , the skyline has totally changed due to the 4 towers rising view from chaotianmen bridge, which is at the back of jiangbei city

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photo taken today

chosen design for chaotianmen

they r doing some changes to make this perfect

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^^ So this one is the domestic proposal and will compete against SOM, KPF, etc, right?

Design is good, just needs to be 2x higher

^^ Agreed, but that is still a very, very awesome design for that site.

This is like the best thread on the whole sight. this is definently an amazing city. :0:0:0

Urban Forest by MAD architects brings together nature and the urban metropolis
Posted by: Aditi Justa | Dec 1 2009




After vertical farms, now it’s time to see urban forests standing high. Deriving inspiration from mountainous Chinese landscapes, MAD architects have planned to build a commercial high-rise structure in Chongqing, China. Dubbed the ‘Urban Forest’, the tall building brings nature and open space together in a crowded and compact manner. The 70 story building is made up of curved, abstracted shaped floors which have been layered slightly off-center from one another. A core cylindrical structure connecting the floors supports and hosts the mechanical systems and elevators.



Each level of the structure from bottom to top is protected by full-length glass windows providing the perfect city view. It also incorporates varying size balconies, crystal-clear pools, beautiful trees and amazing courtyards. The floors are a mix of open spaces and offices or residential space. The urban forest is the beautiful amalgamation of nature and the urban metropolis.

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ARCHITECTURE | EXPOSITION
Les Chinois apprennent vite le contemporain
Guy Duplat

Mis en ligne le 14/10/2009

Les architectes contemporains chinois sont vite devenus des "grands".
On s’extasie souvent sur le "miracle chinois". Il apparaît à nouveau dans toute sa force à la très intéressante expo Europalia sur l’architecture contemporaine chinoise. "Heart-made" (car, selon la tradition chinoise, on construit avec son cœur) présente une cinquantaine de projets des architectes actuels les plus marquants. Et on est sidéré de voir comment ils apprennent vite et souvent bien. Le génie chinois est aussi celui d’assimiler les avancées d’autres pays et de les réutiliser si bien que leur art dépasse celui des modèles.

Tout qui voyage en Chine constate d’abord qu’on a beaucoup détruit du patrimoine et construit partout à une échelle inimaginable, avec une architecture très souvent très médiocre, destinée à répondre au plus vite à des besoins urgents (notre architecture "tout venant" ne vaut souvent guère mieux).

La Chine part d’un terrain vierge. Pendant 60 ans, elle fut à l’écart des mouvements modernistes ou post-Bauhaus, plongée dans la guerre ou la dictature maoïste. Elle n’a donc pas de tradition moderne. De plus, la profession d’architecte n’existe vraiment que depuis 1992-1993 quand le concept de profession libérale fut créé et a permis de susciter des vocations autres qu’architecte fonctionnaire.

L’expo montre très bien comment cette architecture chinoise nouvelle est née dans l’orbite de quelques grands bureaux : Oma de Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid et Steven Holl. Jusqu’à copier leurs tics. La politique des grands travaux pour les JO de Pékin avec les bâtiments emblématiques (nid d’oiseau d’Herzog & de Meuron, tour CCTV de Koolhaas) a donné un coup de fouet supplémentaire à la création architecturale.

Mais les architectes chinois se sont vite affranchis de cette tutelle pour créer leurs propres formes dans toutes les directions de l’architecture "mondialisée". Le cas de Man Yansong est emblématique. Ce jeune architecte est sorti de Yale en 2002 et gère aujourd’hui avec son bureau "MAD", une dizaine de très gros et spectaculaires projets. Le plus emblématique (notre photo) est cette tour de logements et commerces de 385 m, faite de tranches inégales superposées. Elle se présente comme une ville verticale avec des parcs et des arbres. Une réminiscence futuriste des ruelles anciennes (les hutongs). "Urban Forest" est construite pour l’instant à Chongqing, la ville-champignon devenue en quelques années une des plus grandes de Chine. Le même bureau construit à Tianjun une tour avec une façade en nid-d’abeilles, comme un exo-squelette, et sa petite tour jumelle. Pour Beihai, MAD construit un énorme ensemble d’hôtels, maisons et bureaux, comme des montagnes russes. Mais ils peuvent varier leurs cibles. Lors de la dernière Biennale de Venise, ils présentaient un projet de science-fiction : une ville en étoile (comme le virus du sida) qui viendrait se poser au-dessus de New York ou Paris, comme une menace chinoise. Mais ils ont aussi construit une splendide maison/club house aux lignes purissimes, se mariant parfaitement avec le paysage de la Mongolie. Pour les "hutongs" de Pékin très menacés de démolition et qui manquent de sanitaires, ils ont imaginé une sorte de bulle-parasite métallique qui vendrait s’accrocher sur les toits.

Ces architectes nouveaux qu’on découvre à l’expo représentent tous les courants contemporains : l’écologie et le recyclage, l’architecture durable, celle du "geste", ou au contraire le retour au modernisme. Avec, souvent, une belle créativité. Un livre-catalogue, très bien fait, accompagne l’expo et présente le meilleur topo à ce jour de l’architecture contemporaine chinoise.

L’expo inclut - rien n’est anodin - un immeuble à Taipei et la gare de Lhassa, par Cui Kai, qui, pourtant, accueille un train très critiqué par les amis du Tibet qui y voient un outil pour l’envahissement du Tibet par les Hans.

"Heart-made, The Cutting-Edge of Chinese Contemporary Architecture" jusqu’au 21 février au Civa, espace la Cambre, place Flagey à Bruxelles. Du mardi au dimanche, de 11 h à 18 h.

wow wow! New proposal for the plot of the Yuzhou Hotel?
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/newyuzhou.jpg
from http://www.beziercg.com

ha uve got this ?

im searching every where

yes it was yuzhou hotel but tianrun which is the dvlper of beijing ifc bought this project and asked kpf designed it

my friend wont send me this pic , i was pissed , luckly uve found it,, XOXO

its 80 stories ( im sure ). i think around 350m at least

^^ These days I'm exploring many rendering design websites. So many surprises :D

found a source in www.acbi.com.cn

its at least 350m hehehe

350 to 400

宝佳国际重庆超高层写字楼项目概念方案研讨会召开


2009年6月23日，宝佳重庆超高层项目概念方案评审会在京隆重召开。宝佳国际驻华首席代表高志博士、英国皇家建筑师协会会员，宝佳国际总设计师ADRIAN B.R PEEL一行出席了会议，向合作方重庆军润置业有限公司提交了多个初步概念性方案，并与建设单位的董事长、总经理进行了认真研讨与沟通。

本项目基地位处解放碑地区，渝中半岛商贸区的核心区域，地理位置得天独厚，十分优越，解放碑为重庆传统的商业、商务、酒店集中区，地块内已有现代风格融合区、历史建筑风格区及传统建筑协调区。宝佳国际将在高档写字楼林立的解放碑范围内打造350-400米的超高层写字楼，为重庆CBD地区树立一个万人景仰的“丰碑”。

China 1st VAM project to complete construction in Chongqing 2010

BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) – China's first ventilation air methane (VAM) program will start construction in Chongqing in the first quarter of 2010 and go into operation before the yearend, according to the Chongqing Development and Reform Committee on Monday.

The project would be materialized via cooperation between Chongqing Songzao C&E Co., Ltd., a local coal and electricity producer, US AES Corporation, a power generator and distributor, and Shenzhen Dongjiang Environmental Co., Ltd., said the committee.

In specific, Chongqing Songzao C&E Co., Ltd. will be in charge of capturing and processing VAM, a pollutant produced in coal extraction and useful for power generation, which was estimated at 17 million cubic meters annually, or 200,000 tonnes, equal to the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions for 500,000 cars in a year.

Besides, AES, whose operation income hit US1.6 million dollars in 2008, is the first US power company entering Chinese market. So far, it is mainly engaged in gas, gasoline, hydraulic, wind power, and thermal operation and has set up nine power factories in seven Chinese cities with installed capacity at 2675 megawatts.

It is disclosed that AES also plans to carry out another five programs alike in Chongqing, with investment value estimated at 300 million yuan.

found a source in www.acbi.com.cn

its at least 350m hehehe

350 to 400

宝佳国际重庆超高层写字楼项目概念方案研讨会召开


2009年6月23日，宝佳重庆超高层项目概念方案评审会在京隆重召开。宝佳国际驻华首席代表高志博士、英国皇家建筑师协会会员，宝佳国际总设计师ADRIAN B.R PEEL一行出席了会议，向合作方重庆军润置业有限公司提交了多个初步概念性方案，并与建设单位的董事长、总经理进行了认真研讨与沟通。

本项目基地位处解放碑地区，渝中半岛商贸区的核心区域，地理位置得天独厚，十分优越，解放碑为重庆传统的商业、商务、酒店集中区，地块内已有现代风格融合区、历史建筑风格区及传统建筑协调区。宝佳国际将在高档写字楼林立的解放碑范围内打造350-400米的超高层写字楼，为重庆CBD地区树立一个万人景仰的“丰碑”。

From that website
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/1_170249.jpg

Agricultural Bank of China Southwest Headquarters in Jiangbei New City CBD.

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/agrbank1.jpg

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^^ :applause: gotta love the shape.

December 5 by 平常心看世界.
SOM boxes in Jiangbei New City CBD. 30, 22, 19 and 17 floors.
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CBD adv around the new area. What is that? Never saw that render before
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/SDC10699JPGthumb.jpg

New version of athletes apartments, 200m~. I think they are very close to Sheraton twins, aren't they?
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/325232352.jpg

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Some minor projects I found out there
http://www.cendes-intl.com/index.php/main/projectinf/101#upload/%E6%96%B0%E5%AE%9D%E9%BE%991.jpg
http://www.cendes-intl.com/index.php/main/projectinf/102#upload/%E9%A9%AC%E5%AE%B6%E5%B2%A91.jpg
http://www.cendes-intl.com/index.php/main/projectinf/41#upload/sm%E9%87%8D%E5%BA%862.jpg

New version of athletes apartments, 200m~. I think they are very close to Sheraton twins, aren't they?

^^Yes, those two half balls(sports facilities) are just in between.

http://www.chinatouristmaps.com/assets/images/travelmap/Detailed-Map-of-Chongqing-Metro.jpg

Don't know if this has been posted before: Future Chongqing Metro Plan

^^Yes, those two half balls(sports facilities) are just in between.

I can see two sport facilities here, but they look too different from the ones in the renders. The tower would be in the next plot southwards that we can't see here, right?
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/sheraton.jpg


Edit: Also, on the right edge we can see the river. Hmmmm I can't figure out where the tower is, sorry :(
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/325232352.jpg

The tower would be in the next plot southwards that we can't see here, right?

Yep.

Edit: Also, on the right edge we can see the river. Hmmmm I can't figure out where the tower is, sorry :(

I think the location will be on this plot(seems like they will build another egg):

http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/af134/monplaisir/f02ff9ba.jpg

Yep.



I think the location will be on this plot(seems like they will build another egg):

http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/af134/monplaisir/f02ff9ba.jpg

But these sport facilities are sport halls open to the general public for practising sport or instead used by some professional team? Are there any photo from the inside?

And will be there any kind of athletic competition in Chonqing in the future? I'm stranged about the name "Athletes Appartments"

But these sport facilities are sport halls open to the general public for practising sport or instead used by some professional team? Are there any photo from the inside?

And will be there any kind of athletic competition in Chonqing in the future? I'm stranged about the name "Athletes Appartments"

Here is a very detailed report about these sport facilites
http://www.sportmonline.cn/TiCMS/xwbd/1126.htm

All the facilities will be finished at the end of this year and most of them have already been built(the pic is a bit outdated). There are 36 badminton fields, 16 tennis fields, 6 basketball fields, volleyball fields, five-player football fields and a golf exercising field(that green land in the photo I guess) etc.

It is reported that every day more than one thousand people go there to do exercises in the daytime. There's activity every day and athletic competition every week.

It is named "People's Exercises Center" by National Sports bureau of China.

All these exclude the swimming pool(the closest egg to Sheraton) which is not part of the PEC and it's quite costly. You have to pay 400 RMB per month or 2800 RMB per year. A single ticket costs 30 RMB.

That tower is not only built for Athletes but will also be used as office space and hotel.

This one has been started at last. The tallest has 161m, 46 floors, the other has 32 floors. Pics by 平常心看世界.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/633595742797127500jpgthumb.jpg

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New renders of the Poly Tower, 300m.
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What version are they building? Only time can tell. Let's see at what level they build the next lobby.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/35235.jpg

Videos of the JLFY.
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Urban Forest

By the end of 2009, MAD has completed the concept design of a 385 meter high metropolitan cultural complex in the city center of Chongqing – The Urban Forest.

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/12/dzn_Urban-Forest-by-MAD06.jpg

This is the third skyscraper designed by MAD following the Absolute Towers in Toronto and the Sinosteel International Plaza in Tianjin, China.

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/12/dzn_Urban-Forest-by-MAD04.jpg

Dezeen architecture and design magazine
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Urban Forest by MAD
December 10th, 2009

Beijing architects MAD have designed a skyscraper for Chongqing, China, with gardens at each level.

Rather than consider the project vertically, the architects envisage a stack of floors, each slice shifted horizontally to create spaces for gardens and patios.

The 385 metre-high building will be called Urban Forest.

Here’s some text from MAD:

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Urban Forest

By the end of 2009, MAD has completed the concept design of a 385 meter high metropolitan cultural complex in the city center of Chongqing – The Urban Forest.

This is the third skyscraper designed by MAD following the Absolute Towers in Toronto and the Sinosteel International Plaza in Tianjin, China.

MAD proposes a new architectural concept for the course of Chinese urban development – to actualize a sustainable multidimensional high-rise within China’s youngest municipality, where nature reincorporates into the high-density urban environment in the near future, to evoke the affection for nature once lost in the oriental ancient world and bring to the modern city dwellers.

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In the year of 1997, Chongqing became the fourth direct municipality in China.

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As an important pole of the growing economy in western China, the city area of Chongqing is more than twice of those of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin combined.

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/12/dzn_Urban-Forest-by-MAD081000.jpg

Such macro-scale urbanization should not only pushes economic growth and material prosperity, but also foster the evolution of the city’s cultural essence. Chinese cities have gone through the process of once starting from nothing, to following contemporary Western civilization urban pattern. Now, the overall economic infrastructure has oriented the direction of future development towards inland China.

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What lies in the future of cities? How should one grasp the concept of emerging high-density cities of China in the context of a scenic town such as Chongqing? How does one discuss the future of architecture in Chinese cities on the base of Eastern Naturalist perspective and in the new context of China’s unique economic, social environment and globalization background? How to engage the city dwellers with an experience of nature when its presence of steadily diminishes in the face of the ever intensifying concrete jungle.

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Throughout the process of contemporary Western urbanization, skyscrapers were the symbol of technological competitions, prime capitals and the formal enslavement of the powerful and the rich. Sustainable ecology became more of a demand for comfort; while the yearning of a return to nature was left ignored. The Urban Forest draws inspiration from the perspective of nature and the man-made in Eastern Philosophy, and ties the urban city life with the natural outdoor experiences.

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The shape of the architecture mimics mountain range, shifting in a dynamic and yet holistic rhythm, and becomes a continuation of nature. Unlike its preceding counterparts, The Urban Forest no longer emphasizes on vertical force, instead it concentrates on the multidimensional relationships within complex anthropomorphic spaces: multilayer sky gardens, floating patios and minimal and yet well lit nesting spaces, the architectural form dissolves into the fluid spatial movements between air, wind, and light. In this environment, people encounter nature filled with unexpected surprises.

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The fusion between Eastern humanism spirit and urban public spaces pioneers in the making of a sustainable multidimensional city – The Urban Forest will not be a piece of mediocre urban machinery, but an artificial organ that lives and breathes new life in the steel-and-concrete-filled city center.

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Chongqing, the youngest municipality in China, holds great potential in its urban planning and construction and has the capability to be built into a most livable city, a city of pleasant environments, a traffic-jam-free city, even into a city that runs into a complete urban forest. A city with aspiration and vitality shall be courageous in envisioning and designing its great future. – Bo Xilai (Mayor of Chongqing)

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In October 2009, The Urban Forest from MAD debuted in the Heart-Made, Europalia exhibition at the 2009 Europalia China. It represents the most challenging dream of the contemporary Chinese architecture — a type of urban landmark that rises from the affection for nature. It is no longer a static icon but an organic form that changes all the time with people’s perception.

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Director in Charge: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun
Design Team: Yu Kui, Diego Perez, Zhao Wei, Chie Fuyuki, Fu Changrui, Jtravis B Russett, Dai Pu, Irmgard Reiter, Rasmus Palmqvist, Qin Lichao, Xie Xinyu

Location: Chongqing, China
Typology: Commercial, Office, Hotel
Site Area: 7,700 sqm
Building Area: 216,000 sqm
Building Height: 385 m
Architectural Design: MAD Ltd
Structural Design: ARUP Group Ltd

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Posted by Rose Etherington

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/12/10/urban-forest-by-mad/

hmm, so this design is for real? I must get used to it then. hahaha

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A 'smaller' project just near Chongqing.

Intan Garment and Fashion Industrial Park is located at the south bank of the Yangtze River Industrial Park, this is an important project for the district. The project occupies a total area of 341350.04m2, (512.3 mu), of which: total built up area will be 147561.0m2 (221.4 mu), building density 42.33%, with landscaping covering 86088m2 (129.3 mu) which is 25.22% of total area, roads, public squares and malls and outdoor car park covers an area of 107701m2 (161.6 mu).

The park is situated at Nanan’s Chayuan on the eastern side of the main city. It is close to Chongqing City Center, the city Industrial Zone, International exhibition centre, Central Business District, scenic tourist area. With a comprehensive transportation system, flanked by mountains on three sides and a river on the other side, it provides a unique ecological environment and a unique landscape.

Firstly, high standards were set for the planning and design, high standards for construction and high standards for service. Secondly, fully utilize and built on from the experiences of Intan Industrial Valley. Thirdly, greater emphasis on the outlook and external design of the buildings as well as landscaping - adding more plants and green areas. Fourthly, pay more attention to the details and making the park more ‘user friendly’ making it a perfect location for enterprises to set up in this park. We take great pains to design the park so that it clearly shows the different activity areas so as to make working and living in the industrial park more comfortable.

With our unique model, a well planned industrial park, we are confident to make Intan Garment and Fashion Park to be the largest in Southwest China. The park has designated zones which are neatly layout for production, value-added industry, sales, procurement and living and recreational. Chayuan Industrial Park is a high profile project. It’s transportation system, communications system, water and electricity supply and other infrastructure facilities are all in place. With our new concept – ‘Sales area fronting the factories’ we are confident that we will be able to assist enterprises to succeed in our industrial park.

With the industrial park, it will attract 150-200 manufacturers. When all these enterprises are fully operational, it will have a total of RMB6 billion in terms of revenue and RMB 200 million in tax. It will further attract 800 – 1000 trading enterprises with an annual revenue of RMB 5 billion and RMB100 in tax. It will also attract 100 enterprises to set up their Headquarters in the park. It will create a total of 30000 – 40000 job opportunities. With all these in place, it will definitely be a multiple win situation for all.

http://www.intanre.com/EnYingTian.aspx?Cid=15&yid=4

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MOCO center

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More images of the Zhongyu Group project. 2 million sqm. No idea about the heights, could be 200~ or 300~, the renders look too ambiguous I think. But if you pay attention to the first render you can see that the gate shaped tower has around 35 floors, and in the third render the 3 main towers have at least twice the height of the former, so they should be well above 250m. Too soon to say anyway, only time can tell. What's the location btw?

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^^ Found the location and added it to http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=114618753525279527955.000479bbf6b5147c4b09b&ll=41.803214,123.425217&spn=0.018747,0.045447&t=h&z=15

Plot maps here: http://www.midtown.net.cn/

MOCO center

http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/af134/monplaisir/DSC02523.jpg

At first glance this looked like a render :O
what a great cladding.

Construction of Qiansimen Bridge and Dongshuimen Bridge started
2009-12-30 17:10:24

　 (CQNEWS) Four years later, two bridges connecting Jiefangbei, Jiangbeizui and Nanbin Road will appear in Chongqing. On Dec. 29, the only "twin-bridge" of Chongqing main city---Qiansimen Bridge and Dongshuimen Bridge were started to be constructed. The two bridges, together with the Chaotianmen Bridge which has already been open to traffic, will make Jiefangbei, Jiangbeizui and Danzishi Central Business District (CBD) as a whole in space. (Translated by Wei Longfeng, Fathom Language International)

http://english.cqnews.net/cqnews/200912/t20091230_3932874.htm

From http://www.zo-architects.com
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/zoa1.jpg

What is this?
http://www.whiint.com/ChongqingZhuoyueCenter.php

Representatives of Gale International, KPF and Arup have visited Chongqing. Seems like Gale is preparing some project for Chongqing. Gale is the main developer of the Meixi Lake long term masterplan in Changsha (1x400m, many 200m+) and also of the Songo International City of Incheon, ROK. Will they release a mega project in Chongqing too? We can only wait and see. But you know, Gale rarely develops tiny stuff. By the way, both Meixi Lake and Songdo towers are also designed by KPF.
http://www.cnnz.gov.cn/bbxq_content/2010-01/19/content_497325.htm

This city seems pretty dense, but what's the reason for it?
Looks to be on a hill, is its geology allowing easy foundation works?

It's interesting because many cities grow up just for the prestige of having towers, but this one, between the two rivers, seems like it has a shortage of space.

^just like HK and Manhattan. Also like those two they are on solid, granite buffs, which makes it easier to build tall.

More details about Ranjiaba Plaza, formerly a vague supertall proposal, seems like it will be built next to the MOCO Center in the North New Zone. It will be shorter than expected though, but still it looks around 250-285m.

Former, concept render:
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Actual design. The design for the secondary towers has two proposals, both look great. The shorter towers have around 30-35 floors it seems, and the main one is unclear but it looks almost twice as high. Developed by Dohe Properties/东和实业集团.
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http://bbs.classic023.com/thread-343557-1-1.html

we were wrong ,the name is not chongqing bank , its Financial City 2nd , by KPF , chongqing bank is FC 1st, its still under design,by kpf too
also casin plaza is finally here also by kpf

kpf seems like loving chongqing or being loved that much,
till now, they r doing at least 21 towers in chongqing ,at the same time

Financial City, by KPF. If I understood macopolo right, they'll add another tower.
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Casin Plaza
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Both projects are in Jiangbei Xincheng CBD, both by KPF.

we were wrong ,the name is not chongqing bank , its Financial City 2nd , by KPF , chongqing bank is FC 1st, its still under design,by kpf too
also casin plaza is finally here also by kpf


Could it be this?
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Could it be this?
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no idea

Changjiang International, by bluebird
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Jiangbei CBD first 200m design is out, it still isn't official though. 223m, 45 floors. By SOM. The developer is a bank, not sure which. The Chongqing branch of the Agricultural Bank of China maybe.
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ASE Center. By 我的摩天重庆. Wow! This project has been progressing fast and steady in the last months. First they rushed to complete the podium / shopping mall by year's end. Now they are finally setting the cladding of the earliest tower, a large part of which has been leased already. Hopefully some other tower within the complex will sprout anytime soon.
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its chongqing rural comercial bank headquarter

its the winning design

High quality renders of the Financial City project by KPF.
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The new design for Tianrun project is out. Two proposals. One of them has 380m, 76 floors.

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New project by Yingli properties? Where is this? Hopefully it isn't the final desing at all. Pic by haiping.
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Pics by iLH.

Yingli Tower
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New project by Yingli Properties
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Project by Since Group
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Shui On's Chongqing Tiandi masterplan.
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ASE Center
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Cathay Square
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Financial Street masterplan
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Westin Hotel, u/c within the plan above
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United International
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CQWFC
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Xinhua Intl Building
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Tianrun's Project. CQ's latest supertall design.
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PYI Project. This plan has only 228m according to the adv. The design looks stunning, but they firstly announced a 360m project, so let's hope this is not final.
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^^ Thanks Z0rg for the awesome pictures. Although I'm excited for the city, but skimming down through these pictures kinda make me feel sad all the sudden. There are a lot of old people in the room, viewing the future which they might not experience.

^^ On the other hand many of them feel probably proud of their city since life standards are improving to a much better situation that they even dared to imagine when young.

^^ you're right! :D It's still not too late for them, these buildings might be all completed in 6-10 years. :)

Video of the Financial Street project
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Qipaifang Business Center, by Yingli. It's close to Jialing Fanying project. The tallest tower has around 58 floors, 65~ if you include the crown. The spire is likely to reach around 280m.
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Shangri-La Wins Management In Chongqing

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Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, recently signed an agreement with Chongqing Guest House Co. Ltd. to manage a hotel in Chongqing that is scheduled to open in late 2011. The 469-room Shangri-La hotel will occupy the first 28 floors of a new 58-storey landmark building, a multi-purpose complex incorporating office space and innovative retail outlets.

Designed by East China Architectural Design Institute, the hotel will be located in the central business district, 45 minutes from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport and an eight-minute walk from the Chongqing People's Liberation Monument, the commercial centre of the Yuzhong District and the largest pedestrian street in Western China.

Contemporary yet classically styled, the hotel will feature the largest standard guestrooms in the city with a minimum room size of 45 square metres. Guestrooms will feature urban views, and upper floor guestrooms as well as the Horizon Club executive lounge will feature river views. In addition, the hotel will offer a diverse range of dining and entertainment options, including a Chinese restaurant, specialty restaurant, lobby lounge and an all-day dining outlet, in addition to a spa and health club, swimming pool, lounge, hair salon and an entertainment centre.

The new Shangri-La hotel will have 2,000 square metres of meeting and banqueting space, including a 1,000-square-metre ballroom with 12-metre high ceiling, which will be the largest ballroom in the city, complemented by 10 function rooms to cater to different event requirements. A business centre with multi-purpose function rooms will also be available to suit the needs of corporate clients and meeting organisers.

"As one of mainland China's most robust economies and with the strong economic ties between Chongqing and Chengdu, where we already have the Shangri-La Hotel, Chengdu, it is a natural step for Shangri-La to open a hotel in Chongqing to further strengthen our presence in the region. As China's largest luxury hotel group, we look forward to bringing world-class hospitality experiences to business and leisure guests in Chongqing," said Madhu Rao, managing director and chief executive officer, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts.

A renowned ancient Chinese city with more than 3,000 years of history, Chongqing is located on the banks of the Yangtze and Jialing Jiang rivers, and filled with scenic and picturesque hills and mountains. With over 30 million citizens of Han nationality and 49 other ethnic minorities, Chongqing is a hub of cultural diversity and is the birthplace of the Bayu culture, a special ethnic culture found along the upstream of the Yangtze River. Chongqing's pillar industries include machine building, metallurgy, chemicals, environmental protection, food and tourism.

Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, currently owns and/or manages 65 hotels under the deluxe Shangri-La and mid-market Traders brands, with a rooms inventory of over 28,000. The group has over 40 projects under development in Austria, Canada, mainland China, France, India, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Qatar, Seychelles, United Kingdom and the United States. For more information and reservations, please contact a travel professional or access the website at http://www.shangri-la.com .

http://www.hotelsmag.com/article/447804-Shangri_La_Wins_Management_In_Chongqing.php

Cathay Opera. By terence55555
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Cathay Opera Square
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L Place towers, by dengku520. After topping out seems like they have started with the facade.
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And another project for Jiangbei New City CBD unveiled. Bank of China regional headquarters. Pics by iLH. Around 180m imo.
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really impressive:omg:

Lianglukou plot will grow 2x240m~ towers. No images.
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Qianshimen Bridge has been started finally, it links Jiangbei and Yuzhong.
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Pics by 平常心看世界.
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Cathay Opera and the square around it. By 平常心看世界
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More by 平常心看世界. Projects in the Jiangbei New City CBD.

SOM's Financial Center.
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Casin Plaza, by KPF.
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Financial City, by KPF too
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Rejected proposal for the Tianrun plot.
Rejected proposal
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Another cute midrise project coming for Jiangbei New City CBD.
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Bank of Chongqing tower, also in Jiangbei New City CBD.
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Is there a way the government can get the river to be more full, like divert some channel to this river/s. They look really empty and its one of the things that put me off when i see the jiangbei area. This place is really shaping up to look like a denser version of Shanghai, the record breaking bridge, nice buildings, its only missing that iconic one at the tip of the area!!!!

Is there a way the government can get the river to be more full, like divert some channel to this river/s. They look really empty and its one of the things that put me off when i see the jiangbei area. This place is really shaping up to look like a denser version of Shanghai, the record breaking bridge, nice buildings, its only missing that iconic one at the tip of the area!!!!

I'm agree with the river, especially the highway poles in the riverside. CQ need do something about it. For highway poles, may be an architecture can bring proposal to CQ government to make it look beautiful. I already have some idea in my head.

I think Urban Forest will be the CQ icon. The Financial Street and new towers at the end of peninsula will give CQ new look.

Chongqing to become China's first inland tariff-free zone
By Qiang Xiaoji (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-03-07 15:06

The State Council has just chosen Southwest China's Chongqing municipality to become the country's first inland tariff-free zone, Bo Xilai, the Chongqing Party chief and deputy to the National People's Congress, said on Saturday, chinanews.com reported.

Bo said Chongqing has lagged behind the other three municipalities directly governed by the State Council—namely Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai—in economic development, but it is the only one of these municipalities located in inland China.

Bo said a series of measures have been taken by both the local government and the State Council to create favorable conditions for the opening-up of Chongqing. The establishment of a tariff-free zone in Chongqing marks a big opportunity for the opening-up of China's inland cities.

Bo also announced that last year several major IT companies like Hewlett-Packard, Foxconn and Intel have signed big contracts with Chongqing to produce over 80 million laptops, which has greatly contributed to Chongqing's economic development and exports.

Chongqing will also make big moves in foreign cooperation and communications, he added.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/07/content_9550205.htm

(or the author of this phenomenal research on Chongqing's property)? I'm writing a story on this subject and would like to ask you some follow-up questions if possible. I'm contactable via krhamlin@yahoo.com I'm planning to visit Chongqing Monday and Tuesday of next week. Many thanks, Kevin

^^ Emailed!

Pics by 小序.
Qiansimen Bridge.
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SOM's boxes in Jiangbei Xincheng CBD
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(or the author of this phenomenal research on Chongqing's property)? I'm writing a story on this subject and would like to ask you some follow-up questions if possible. I'm contactable via krhamlin@yahoo.com I'm planning to visit Chongqing Monday and Tuesday of next week. Many thanks, Kevin

:cheers: Cheers for the Z0rg

L Place, by 小序
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(or the author of this phenomenal research on Chongqing's property)? I'm writing a story on this subject and would like to ask you some follow-up questions if possible. I'm contactable via krhamlin@yahoo.com I'm planning to visit Chongqing Monday and Tuesday of next week. Many thanks, Kevin

I can't wait to read his article. I also want to know the story of CQ development progress, and what makes this city so great. :)

Pics by 了了哥哥

Century Emperor
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Future International and the Sun Valley project plot behind
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Jiangjin Yingbin Changjiang Bridge (江津迎宾长江大桥). A bridge over the Changjiang bridge in Jiangjin town, around 40km southwest of the city center.

Double decker. Highway and light rail (Line 5).
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i am quite vague when seeing this satellite map. However, it look very big and large. Can you give me another easier way for this?
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^^ I don't understand what you mean.

Jiayue Bridge has been finished already, wow. Located in the northwest of Chongqing.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/20071221144518-0.jpg

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Dongshuimen Bridge has been started too, very first works in progress. Pics by 老农民.exe
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Shuangbei Jialing Bridge. Pics by 口水机.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/qlcq292.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/qlcq055.jpg

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Some viaduct along the Chongqing-Lichuan railway
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/a0f0805e.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/nEO_IMG_IMG_3538.jpg

Subway plans extended, they'll construct 14 lines in a long term, instead of 10.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/Ditiezu_1014.jpg

Another coming project by Longfor/Longhu Properties, around 1 million sqm.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/U4243P654T2D1550F168DT2010012016295.jpg

These must be apart of the One City Central project (by Zhongyu Group), right? Perhaps the first construction phase?

The buildings will be between 29 and 31 floors tall, situated on the roof of a shopping mall.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Architecture/OneCentralMidtownResidentials2small.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Architecture/OneCentralMidtownResidentials1small.jpg

SOM boxes, by 小序
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/DSC04893JPGthumb.jpg

More by 小序
One of the Shui On's under renovation projects in Jiefangbei.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/DSC04923JPGthumb.jpg

Qiansimen Bridge, by 海闊天空
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Multiple Chinese news articles today claiming Chongqing will build 620m+ twin towers.....Not sure if it's for real or if it's just rumours.

http://cq.focus.cn/news/2010-04-06/897698.html
http://cq.qq.com/a/20100406/000099.htm

OK, all the news sites just copy and pasted off each other....

http://i344.photobucket.com/albums/p340/Dalianon/ec008d05.jpg

This is the picture on Sohu's site...

http://photocdn.sohu.com/20100406/Img271329745.jpg

http://www.german-architects.com/index.php?seite=world_profile_architekten_detail_en&system_id=220640&com=detail&profile_sprache=zh

Multiple Chinese news articles today claiming Chongqing will build 620m+ twin towers.....Not sure if it's for real or if it's just rumours.

http://cq.focus.cn/news/2010-04-06/897698.html
http://cq.qq.com/a/20100406/000099.htm

OK, all the news sites just copy and pasted off each other....

News Video on this tower
http://news.joy.cn/guonei/video/1143035.htm

^^ please build it in an iconic location and i hope they can come up with a new idea of twins.

Good...God.

Another huge railway viaduct u/c within the outskirts of Chongqing.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/54544_1270549798rUur.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/54544_1270549791EdKW.jpg

Huanghua International project finally prep. Around 60 floors, must be taller than 200m. But who knows if they are starting the main tower or the res ones only. Pics by 小序.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/5321726820100425232256086.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/cq%20update/098G.jpg

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This city is going crazy, I love it!

May 15 by 平常心看世界.

Financial Center, by SOM
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Residential towers by Since Group. 1x52 floors and 2x42 floors. I don't know the heights, but since the tallest tower has a spire maybe it'll reach 200m.
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/SDC11207JPGthumb.jpg

Maersk to ink deal on Yangtze port terminal
17 May 2010

COPENHAGEN, May 17 (Reuters) - Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk <MAERSKb.CO> aims to invest in new port facilities in China's fast-growing provincial capital of Chongqing to develop a key inland harbour on the Yangtze River, a senior executive said.

The port terminals wing of the Danish shipping and oil group will sign a memorandum of understanding this week with state-owned Chongqing Port & Logistics Group in conjunction with a visit to Denmark by Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming.

Soren Hansen, senior director of corporate business development in APM Terminals, said no money would change hands at this stage, but Maersk aimed to invest in the Yangtze facility in the short term.

"Growth rates are so high and concentrated on the river so obviously this is a place we really want to be," Hansen told Reuters.

He said that the entire region of Sichuan, which is home to 100 million people, only has an annual throughput of 400,000 twenty-foot containers (TEU) annually, so the growth potential is large.

Europe's busiest container hub, the port of Rotterdam, handled 9.7 million TEU in 2009.

I can't believe in my own eyes.
It's stunning!
*faints*

Chongqing Launches Global Rail-sea Channel

CHONGQING, May 19, SinoCast -- Chongqing yesterday held a ceremony for the opening of its global rail-sea channel, which enables the southwestern Chinese city to compete head-to-head with coastal cities like Shanghai and Suzhou.

It will take less time to fly from Chongqing to Europe through the channel than form coastal areas to the continent, explained Mu Huaping, a local official.

It will take about two days to ship containers from Chongqing to Shenzhen, south China, and 25 days from Shenzhen to Europe. In contrast, it will take 28 days to carry containers from Shanghai, east China to Europe.

These days, Chongqing has been busy improving local transport. Earlier this year, Chengdu-Chongqing High-speed Railway broke earth with a designed maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour, and it is scheduled to be completed in 2014.

With a total length of 308 kilometers, the railway will absorb a total investment of CNY 39.89 billion for its construction. The travel by train between Chongqing and Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, southwest, will be shortened to only one hour after the completion of the project, 66 percent of which will be bridges and tunnels.

OMG about the highspeed rail.

In fact, it is already running - as I just traveled the Chongqing-Chengdu route 3 times. Speeds maxed out at 207 km/h but we had to stop many times in order to wait for passing trains going the other way.

It appears most of the new construction will be in Chongqing itself, as in the municipality we maxed at 165 hm/h but bumped up to 207 km/h max in Sichuan outside of Chengdu. When traveling along the route, I noted construction activity (tunnels, bridge pylons/tower cranes) NUMEROUS times, particularly in mountaineous Chongqing rural and ex-urban [which coincidentally is also where we had to stop frequently due to single track].

This current highspeed link took just under 2.5 hours, and is already faster than flying when factoring in security checkin and baggage. It is also markedly cheaper, as first class car 1 ticket cost 119/121 CNY each way.

I heard there is plans (construction?) for highspeed Chongqing-Xian (eventually on to Beijing); China is taking the lead on highspeed rail construction.

Zero-Emissions Design, Chongqing, China
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=14143

Architects Woods Bagot and engineering firm Buro Happold have launched a model for large-scale sustainable development, which they say will
‘significantly advance’ the construction industry's contribution to achieving a zero carbon economy by 2050. Details of the project called Zero-
Emissions Design - or Zero-E - were unveiled at the 2010 Bloomberg BusinessWeek Global Green Business Summit in Shanghai. A pilot project will
look at the development potential of an industrial site on the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China.

The test case proposes a 450,000 sq m mixed-use development, featuring an 82-storey office and hotel tower, which will continually monitor
and react to internal and external climatic conditions for maximum performance. While current approaches to sustainable development reduce
the environmental harm caused by the construction and operation of new buildings, ZERO-E goes beyond reducing the impact of new
development to creating buildings that contribute to the healing of compromised human and ecological systems.

The joint initiative follows the UN Compact on climate change and China's commitment, made last November, to reducing carbon dioxide emissions
per unit of GDP by 40-45% by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels. Ross Donaldson, chief executive of Woods Bagot, said: "The construction
industry has known for some time that increasing the sustainability of buildings and cities is key to turning the tide on climate change. The Zero-e
pilot project confirms that using the expertise and tools available to us today far greater advances in building performance-those that comprise
zero emissions design-are currently within the industry's capabilities. This initiative is not only an entirely new model for sustainable design, it is
also a call to action and an invitation to our development and construction partners to join us as we lead the way to a sustainable future."

Gavin Thompson, Buro Happold's managing director, added: "As an industry we must take urgent steps to change the planning, design and
construction of the built environment if we are to help deliver a zero carbon global economy. Zero-e demonstrates the power of combining our
significant expertise, blurring the boundaries between architect and engineer and represents a watershed moment for our industry."

http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/6156/zeroemissionsdesign1.jpg

Chongqing aims to build biggest IT manufacturing base in Asia

SINGAPORE - Chongqing, the populous economic hub in southwestern China, never seems to be out of the limelight. After launching a sweeping crackdown on violent gangs last year, the city is now setting its sights on building Asia's largest manufacturing base for information technology (IT) products.

In an interview with China Daily, Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan expressed his confidence on the prospects for the IT industry, supported by fast-growing demand for computer and communication facilities, even though the overall global output of the IT industry has shrunk some 40 percent amid the global financial crisis.

"Partnering with several big names in IT, such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and CISCO, Chongqing will soon have an IT industrial cluster with an annual industrial output of some 400 billion yuan ($59 billion)," Huang said on the sidelines of the World Cities Summit in Singapore.

US computer maker HP and world-leading communication technology provider CISCO have established new manufacturing bases in Chongqing, aiming to tap the country's central and western regions.

The HP factory will produce 5 million computers this year and 40 million by 2012, according to Huang.

The IT industrial cluster is only part of the local authorities' effort to build Chongqing, China's largest municipality, into an economic powerhouse in the country's western hinterland.

The city won government approval last month to set up a 1,200 square kilometer special economic zone - Liangjiang New Area, the nation's third of its kind after Shanghai Pudong and Tianjin Binhai.

Located in northern Chongqing, Liangjiang New Area is set to be built into a modern manufacturing base and the premier financial center in western China, and will also serve as a test bed for the country's bold social and economic reforms, such as integrating urban and rural development and public housing reform.

"If Pudong and Binhai are landmarks for China's export-oriented economy, the launch of Liangjiang New Area is a milestone marking the country's decisiveness in opening up inland regions and spurring domestic demand," Huang said.

Indeed, Chongqing's rapid development owes much to the country's strategy of developing western regions, which was initiated 10 years ago aiming to achieve more balanced growth between eastern and western China.

During the past decade, the country invested $100 billion in 23 major infrastructure projects in the western region, which has helped the region's economy grow at an annualized 11.9 percent during the period.

At a national meeting held by the State Council earlier this week, the country's top policymakers pledged to continue the pace of developing China's vast western region, adding new impetus to Chongqing's future development.

"We cannot miss the chance to take advantage of the country's western development strategy, as Chongqing is set to become a key growth engine in western China," Huang said.

Under the city's development roadmap, it plans to quadruple its industrial output to some 4 trillion yuan over the next 10 years, driven by pillar industries including IT, automobile, equipment and machinery manufacturing, he added.

Chongqing Suning Tower. 62~ floors. Likely around 280m including the spire. The Xinhua Tower next to it has 238m, so the roof must be around 250m.

I'm very worried since this is the plot of the Urban Forest tower. I see three possibilities.

1: These are just old renders since there is no info about a Suning tower in Chongqing.

2: They'll build MAD's project somewhere else.

3: They cancelled MAD's project.

Source: http://www.nanjing-design.cn/default.php?mod=article&do=detail&tid=206266

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New supertall project. 320m, by Sino Land. Located in Jiangbei district, close to Future International tower.
http://ecqsb.hsw.cn/html/2010-07/17/content_127650.htm

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/15981279308840140.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/macpolo/46287954201007262108213948178120325_000.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/macpolo/1007291548225adfa3f909babf.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/macpolo/100722191864ad52e37a53ec1d.jpg
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wow, Amazing projects in Chongqing :D

China Unicom to invest RMB10 bln in building "intelligent Chongqing"
Xinhua News Agency
17 August 2010

SHANGHAI - China Unicom signed a cooperation framework agreement with Chongqing Municipal Government, vowing to invest 10 billion yuan in the coming five years to support the municipality's information infrastructure construction.

According to the agreement, the two sides will accelerate the construction of "intelligent Chongqing", enhance technical innovation, and boost the development of Chongqing's information service industry.

Besides, China Unicom and the Chongqing government plan to link up its WCDMA 3G technology with near field communication (NFC) technology, absorbing and introducing NFC-related firms into the southwest city.

Industrial experts forecast that the combined output value of Chongqing's NFC industrial alliance will reach 50 billion yuan by 2015.

Integrating NFC with 3G mobile handset will facilitate consumers to use 3G information services and the functions of Internet of Things conveniently.

I don't know if this has already been posted:

Spring Lake Forest

http://imgs.soufun.com/house/2010_03/15/cq/1268636532584_000.jpg

Height: 100m+


龙湖春森彼岸拥有长江、嘉陵江江岸线突出城市特色的我们更不缺乏滨江建筑。重庆的山、重庆的水和坡地上的层层建筑在春森彼岸高差近100米的原生态地貌与高低起伏的建筑群中得到完美展现。我们发誓要将其打造成重庆地标式的建筑，通过龙湖春森彼岸去传递重庆的价值。

78万方世界级滨水建筑群，占据城市中心绝版地段，位于重庆北滨路，紧邻江北嘴CBD,粹集现代城市生活之品质要素：观江豪宅、商务SOHO、5A甲级写字楼、10万方国际风尚商业街区、1000米滨江休闲长廊…构筑城市未来国际化水岸生活！

Source: http://office.cq.soufun.com/2010-7-14/3549140_3.htm

Zero-Emissions Design, Chongqing, China
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=14143

Architects Woods Bagot and engineering firm Buro Happold have launched a model for large-scale sustainable development, which they say will
‘significantly advance’ the construction industry's contribution to achieving a zero carbon economy by 2050. Details of the project called Zero-
Emissions Design - or Zero-E - were unveiled at the 2010 Bloomberg BusinessWeek Global Green Business Summit in Shanghai. A pilot project will
look at the development potential of an industrial site on the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China.

The test case proposes a 450,000 sq m mixed-use development, featuring an 82-storey office and hotel tower, which will continually monitor
and react to internal and external climatic conditions for maximum performance. While current approaches to sustainable development reduce
the environmental harm caused by the construction and operation of new buildings, ZERO-E goes beyond reducing the impact of new
development to creating buildings that contribute to the healing of compromised human and ecological systems.

The joint initiative follows the UN Compact on climate change and China's commitment, made last November, to reducing carbon dioxide emissions
per unit of GDP by 40-45% by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels. Ross Donaldson, chief executive of Woods Bagot, said: "The construction
industry has known for some time that increasing the sustainability of buildings and cities is key to turning the tide on climate change. The Zero-e
pilot project confirms that using the expertise and tools available to us today far greater advances in building performance-those that comprise
zero emissions design-are currently within the industry's capabilities. This initiative is not only an entirely new model for sustainable design, it is
also a call to action and an invitation to our development and construction partners to join us as we lead the way to a sustainable future."

Gavin Thompson, Buro Happold's managing director, added: "As an industry we must take urgent steps to change the planning, design and
construction of the built environment if we are to help deliver a zero carbon global economy. Zero-e demonstrates the power of combining our
significant expertise, blurring the boundaries between architect and engineer and represents a watershed moment for our industry."

http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/6156/zeroemissionsdesign1.jpg

More renderings and illustrations.
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bye bye Dubai, Chongqing is the construction king! This city is truely amazing, so many high quality skyscrapers rising. One day I will visit...

Even now, Chongqing has really amazing skyline. I'm interested abt Chongqing's future skyline in reality.:)

MOCO Center, by sunning
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/1287892505-26jpgthumb.jpg

L Place, by kevin_cqcn
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Jiangbei Xincheng CBD, by christpher1005
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chongqing concord city
it might be the tallest of chongqing s all vision
is finally U/C
we ve never got the design yet but we ve got the news that its 639m and designed by Arquitectonica
its the main project of the 7 financial street towers

wish for the best
if 639 is too far to reach then at least give us a 500m tower

construction site
develloped by Concord Group which is also China Property Group
from HK i guess

http://i56.tinypic.com/hwco6u.jpg

现在中西部发展的也很快嘛。。。开心。。。

http://av.vimeo.com/03364/435/25571590.mp4?token=1292031279_269c28cd5eaa99d464fefada6242ecfc

600m twins

http://alsoprmjm.com/genr/images/processed/project_medium/chongqing-1.jpg
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^^wtf? can someone explain?

hello zorg what happend with the many Skycrapers project from 2006?
Is the city doomed?

^^ You want to pin point the list of skyscrapers you're talking about?

By 平常心看世界
Since Group project in Jiefangbei, 2x160m~
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others2/others3/SDC12023JPGthumb.jpg

Boxy midrise in Jiefangbei, never seen this one before.
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L Place in Guayinqiao. 2x180m~
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another great update Zorg

WHAT is all this macpolo??? :nuts:

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:wtf:looks like someone gave a pod user a pencil and said "go for it".:okay:

Europeans can buy an apartment in China legally? If so, where you can buy an apartment in the city? Do you have Internet addresses of real estate agencies?

Europeans can buy an apartment in China legally? If so, where you can buy an apartment in the city? Do you have Internet addresses of real estate agencies?

yes. you can buy apartment in the city. You can find chongqing's listed apartments for sale at http://esf.cq.soufun.com/

Yes, you can purchase property in Chongqing, but there are some restrictions on where and how many. I have dealt with many foreigners buying property (am Canadian myself) Feel free to send me an email if you would like some further information. a.mcwhirter@maxxelli.net

www.maxxelli.net
www.maxxelli-blog.com

Chongqing to raise weight of non-fossil energy consumption to 13 percent by 2015

CHONGQING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) – Chongqing, a municipality in southwest China, is planning to vigorously develop low carbon economy during the period of the 12 Five-Year Program and targeted to raise the weight of non-fossil energy consumption to 13 percent of total primary energy consumption by the end of 2015.

In order to develop low carbon economy, Chongqing will promote construction of low carbon buildings, green buses and lightening, and launch clean development mechanism projects.

Chongqing to launch 10 million square meters of public housing
15:19, February 16, 2011

Starting from Feb. 12, 2011, Chongqing began to receive low-rent public housing applications. It will open 10 million square meters of public housing for applications this year, which is nearly half of the total area of commercial housing sold in Chongqing main city in 2010.

The first batch of low-rent public housing, with an area of about 4 million square meters (about 67,000 sets), will be available on March 2 and the second batch in October 2011. After that, citizens who have handled relevant procedures can gradually move into the homes.

Chongqing started construction on 13 million square meters of public rental housing last year, will begin construction on 13.5 million square meters this year and plans to construct 13.5 million square meters next year. The combined 40 million square meters of public rental housing will solve housing problems for about 2 million people.

By Liang Jun, People's Daily Online

Europeans can buy an apartment in China legally? If so, where you can buy an apartment in the city? Do you have Internet addresses of real estate agencies?

www.CqExpat.com
there is a forum, you can find lots of property agent spreading ads all around.
If you need help, feel free to contact me.

Crazy masterplan renders for Guayinqiao area, very close to Sun Valley, Future International, etc. From http://www.bidg.com.cn/pm_xx.asp?aid=468&cid=335

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I see SOM's old design for Transbay Tower (San Fransisco), a lovely design. Any idea if this is a masterplan of SOM?

Chongqing leads the way in affordable housing
10 March 2011
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Much is said about China's rise and the implications it will have for all of us, but what has had a greater impact on me, as a resident of the Chinese capital, is "Beijing's rise". By that, I mean quite literally rising, with massive tower blocks sprouting up throughout the city where once sprawling villages with tiny, shoddy housing stood.

It is a phenomenon that has changed the lives of many residents. I live in a part of the city, which, 20 years ago, barely even figured on maps of Beijing, but is now an innovative, industrious and international community.

However, as the city grows outward and upward, so too does the cost of getting a home here.

According to Beijing statistics bureau, the per capita disposable income of urbanites in the municipality was 29,073 yuan ($4,431) in 2010.

The average property price in December in Beijing reached 26,599 yuan per square meter, according to figures released by the Beijing municipal commission of housing and urban-rural development.

The housing reform of the late 1990s, which transformed millions of people from occupants to homeowners, gave many people the chance to move up the property ladder, and kick-started the real estate sector.

But the marketization of housing has led to a situation where the construction of smaller, more affordable homes either for sale or rental is quite rare. After all, if there is no requirement on property developers to build these types of homes, why should they? They are in it for the money, so it stands to reason that they will position themselves toward the medium and high-end market.

That's why government should play a greater role in housing. Only through increased regulation of the sector and statutes mandating that developers build a certain proportion of affordable homes for sale or rent can the less well-off in our society be guaranteed a decent place to live.

In terms of efforts to give people a decent home, Chongqing, the giant municipality in Southwest China, is setting a fine example.

Over the next three years, about 40 million sq m of housing will be built, providing accommodation for 2 million people in the city who either currently do not have a home of their own, or live in substandard housing.

Thanks to the program, the first such large public housing scheme in a major Chinese city, one-third of Chongqing's urban population will have public-rented homes, paying rent 40 percent less than the commercial rate for similar properties.

In addition, a major development took place in January, when the central government signed agreements with provincial-level governments to guarantee that they will meet the target of building 10 million government-subsidized homes this year, an increase of 72.4 percent on the figure in 2010.

These projects, which include the construction of 420,900 government-subsidized apartments in Henan province, 400,000 in Yunnan and 158,700 in Gansu, are slated to begin before the end of October.

If the local leaders fail to do this, they face punishments that include demotion and even dismissal.

It is also encouraging to hear from the central government that another 10 million government-subsidized homes will be built next year and a further 16 million from 2013 to the end of 2015.

A more generic article on second-tier cities .. won't post this in every relevant city thread though :

Credit Suisse warns of 'value trap' for developers in second-tier cities
10 March 2011
SCMP

The conventional wisdom that developers are smart to build in second-tier mainland cities is wrong because many of these areas suffer from oversupply and low development margins, according to Credit Suisse.

Last year, land with a potential gross floor area of 410 million square metres was purchased on the mainland for building private housing, up 28 per cent from 2009.

Of the 30 first- and second-tier cities it monitored, Credit Suisse identified Hefei, Chongqing and Changsha as the top-three cities with the lowest property development margins. Wuhan, Taiyuan, Tianjin and Dalian will face severe oversupply that will take more than seven years to absorb.

"Most developers tend to buy in second- and third-tier cities with the rationale that land is generally cheaper in such cities compared with first-tier cities and the potential for growth in tier-two cities is huge," said Du Jinsong, an analyst at Credit Suisse.

As a result of growing developer interest in second-tier cities, land prices in key areas increased by an average of 23 per cent last year, compared with a drop of 2 per cent in first-tier cities, he said. In fact, the pace of growth in land prices there was much faster than residential prices last year, he said.

Land prices in Haikou, Hainan, rose 93 per cent last year compared with a 45 per cent increase in residential prices. Wuhan land prices grew 28 per cent compared with a meagre 7 per cent gain in residential prices.

In terms of profitability, Chongqing is ranked as the second-worst performer with an estimated gross margin of 6 per cent. This was based on the city's average selling price of 5,151 yuan per square metre against a total development cost of 4,842 yuan per square metre.

Second-tier cities previously had a key advantage. Beijing's policies to cool property markets generally did not apply to them. But that will disappear this year.

The State Council in January ordered 36 cities to implement home-purchase limits, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo, Xiamen, Shenzhen and 27 provincial capital cities. Local residents are barred from buying if they own more than two houses.

In light of these new restrictions on home purchases, Du also ranked each city on the severity of potential oversupply. The top-10 cities to avoid: Wuhan, Shenyang, Jinan, Changchun, Taiyuan, Hefei, Changsha, Haikou, Chongqing and Tianjin.

He listed CC Land, Guangzhou R&F, China Overseas Land and Investment, Longfor Properties and Shui On Land as having the most significant exposure to what he called these "value traps". More than 40 per cent of their land banks were located in such cities.

Xu Tonghui, manager of Chongqing-based developer Longfor Group's customer and corporate branding department admitted that Chongqing's profit margin was relatively low compared with other secondary cities.

"But the city's housing demand is growing much faster than others and will be a stable source of revenue," he said. "It will continue be an important part of the group's investment."

Forty-five per cent of Longfor's land bank is located in what Credit Suisse is calling these "value-trap" cities with 8.24 million square metres in Chongqing or 33 per cent of its total land reserve.

"Prices in second-tier cities will likely come under pressure as demand is constrained by the home-purchase limits," Du said.

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Chongqing to start building high-speed railway to Changsha
21 April 2011
People's Daily Online

The construction of the Chongqing-Changsha special passenger line, with a maximum speed of 250 kilometers per hour, is expected to begin in 2011. This is the second special passenger line under construction in Chongqing.

According to the Chongqing Development and Reform Commission, as the passenger and freight transport of the currently-running Chongqing-Huaihua railway is extremely saturated, the construction of the Chongqing-Changsha special passenger line has now become even more urgent.

The Chongqing-Changsha railway is divided into three sections, namely the Chongqing-Qianjiang section, the Qianjiang-Zhangjiajie-Changde section and the Changde-Changsha section, which will be constructed in different stages.

Currently, the Ministry of Railways has launched preliminary work for the Qianjiang-Zhangjiajie-Changde section and the Changde-Changsha section, and construction is expected to start in 2011.

The Chongqing-Qianjiang section has currently been included in the Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration inter-city railway network plan as a near-term project. The completion time of the Chongqing-Qianjiang section may be slightly behind the other two sections.

However, passengers from Chongqing to Changsha can still first take the Chongqing-Qianjiang section of the Chongqing-Huaihua railway and then take the Qianjiang-Zhangjiajie-Changde section and the Changde-Changsha section.

According to sources, the Chongqing-Changsha special passenger line will be completed and put into operation by 2015. It will take only three hours from Chongqing to Changsha if the train runs at its designed speed of 200 to 250 kilometers per hour.

China Official: Luxury Home Sales In Chongqing Fall Due To Real-Estate Tax - Report
26 May 2011

SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)--The launch of the real-estate tax trial in Chongqing in late January has reduced sales of high-end homes in the southwestern Chinese city and led to more reasonable housing consumption patterns, Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday, citing Zhang Dingyu, director of Chongqing's land resources and housing administration.

From Jan. 28-Apr. 30, the average price of taxable housing in the city was CNY13,140 per square meter, 10.5% lower than the average price of CNY14,678 per square meter recorded from Jan. 1-27, Xinhua said, without providing data for individual months.

Sales of luxury homes accounted for 7.8% of all private housing sales during the Jan. 28-Apr. 30 period, down 3.1 percentage points from 2010, Xinhua said.

Zhang didn't say whether the city's home purchase limits had also affected sales of luxury homes.

In a separate report Monday, Xinhua cited Qin Hong, vice director of the policy research center of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, as saying real-estate tax trials in Shanghai and Chongqing, along with restrictions on home purchases, had contributed to a drop in home sales in the first quarter compared with a year earlier.

China has been working to keep property price rises check amid widespread grumbling that the cost of owning a home is out of reach for too many consumers. But most local governments are heavily dependent on land sales and property sales taxes to fund their budgets, and the close ties between major developers and local governments have meant that policies haven't placed overly heavy burdens on the industry.

Newspaper website: http://www.xinhua.org

Chongqing halts red theme park construction plan
2011-July-11 08:53
Shenzhen Daily & Agencies

CHONGQING Municipality has halted a plan to build a Red Classic Theme Park that has sparked heated debate.

The park, which was planned to occupy more than 128 hectares in Nanchuan District, would take the shape of China and display sculptures of late Communist Party of China (CPC) leaders, imitations of former leaders’ homes and landmarks in China’s red culture and revolutionary history, according to Chongqing Red Classic Investment Co. Ltd., the main investor.

According to an initial plan, the park would cost 2.5 billion yuan (US$386.5 million) over the next four years. The investment would come from a private enterprise, Chongqing Evening News reported.

“The project was stopped by the municipal government because the authorities thought it was not feasible,” Li Jing, deputy director of the publicity department of Nanchuan District, said Friday.

Li declined to give more details.

The project, which was announced right after the 90th anniversary of the founding of the CPC early this month, had stirred controversy because of its extravagance.

On the Nanchuan district government’s Web site, a resident surnamed Liao said the money should be spent on more urgent needs, such as providing financial support for migrant workers or building more affordable houses.

“The city government should carefully conduct a feasibility study and solicit public opinion before making a decision,” Liao wrote.

Ren Chengmin, 48, said the park was unnecessary because there were already many red tourist sites, memorial squares and monuments in the city.

Experts have also questioned the social and economic benefits of the project.

Wang Guohua, a tourism expert at Beijing University of Technology, said he believed the park would not attract enough visitors to cover expenses.

“Parks are for entertainment and should create a relaxed and peaceful atmosphere for people instead of putting such emphasis on a history of wars and chaos,” Wang said Friday.

He said such a large-scale park would be a waste of land and money, and would also have maintenance difficulties.

Plan for eyes on the streets arouses debate
China Daily

BEIJING, Aug. 11 - Chongqing, China's largest municipality by population, will create a network of surveillance cameras across the city, a municipal official said.

The 500,000 cameras that will make up the network are due to be in place by the end of 2012 at a cost of 20 billion yuan ($3.1 billion), Liu Guanglei, secretary of the city's politics and law committee, said at a news conference in Chongqing on Monday.

Liu also announced that Chongqing was crowned the "safest city" in China in 2010.

In a national appraisal conducted by China's Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Public Security, the city's public security and social stability outperformed any other city in China last year.

The city is well known for its massive crackdown on crime syndicates in 2009. Carried out under the auspices of municipal Party Chief Bo Xilai, which resulted in a series of high-profile trials of the local "dark and evil forces".

Liu said by the end of June, the city had busted 405 gangs and arrested 4,425 suspects.

A number of allegedly corrupt police, government and Party officials, including the former head of the municipal bureau of justice, Wen Qiang, have also been detained and prosecuted.

It was the first time Chongqing had won the title. It was ranked 19th in 2008 and 13th in 2009.

According to Liu, more than half of the municipal government's fiscal expenditures were used to improve people's livelihoods in the past three years, which has helped to make the city more harmonious.

"I have no problem going to shopping centers or residential areas at night, as there are always police patrolling the area around the clock," said Feng Fan, a 27-year-old Chongqing resident.

However, there have been some concerns about the cameras causing invasions of privacy and the cost of implementing them.

"The cameras and police patrols are strong deterrents," said a woman surnamed Hu. "But it will be expensive to install and maintain so many cameras."

The average price of each camera will be about 40,000 yuan, while the per capita net income of urban residents in Chongqing is less than 20,000 yuan a year in 2010.

According to the Chongqing Social Facts & Public Opinion Survey Center, the city's sense of public security index reached a historical high of 95.89 percent in 2010.

"The index has increased steadily in recent years, which reflects the fact that local residents feel safer living in the city," Wang Jun, director of the center, told China Daily.

Wang said the survey was based on a random sampling of 30,000 residents who have lived in the city for more than a year.

Chongqing launched a campaign to improve residents' quality of life in 2008. The five goals of the campaign were to make the city more suitable for living, to build an efficient transportation system, to expand the size of the forest, to lower the crime rate, to improve work safety standards and to create a healthy living environment.

China's latest municipality provides a hub that serves western regions
Updated: 2011-08-18 08:17

An economic development zone in the mega-city of Chongqing is attracting greater attention from investors in China and abroad because of its position as an economic hub for the western parts of China and competitiveness in many sectors.

The Chongqing Economic and Technological Development Zone opened in 1993 as a State-level development zone, just four years before Chongqing became the latest of China's four municipalities.

The zone is becoming an important area for manufacturing, trade, services, transportation, and logistics, and has a pivotal role in promoting urban growth by providing a base for overseas and domestic investment.

One reason for the zone's success, in getting more investment, is surely the five-day promotion event it sponsored this past February in Hong Kong.

That lead to talks with more than a hundred business leaders there, accompanied by an exhibition to introduce investment projects and the Chongqing business environment.

It also leads to about 15 billion yuan worth of cooperative agreements on 15 large projects in the automobile, warehousing, logistics, information technology, finance, and infrastructure sectors.

According to the zone's administrative committee, more than 40 Fortune 500 companies - including Hutchinson Whampoa, Honda, Suzuki, Ford, Ericsson and Coca Cola - have plants or offices there, along with a large number of other multinationals and Chinese businesses.

Why Chongqing zone?

Well, for one thing, there is its advantageous location and convenient transport. Then there is the infrastructure and industrial base, all of which help. And Chongqing is a hub with connections to China's western and central parts.

The zone's products can easily be moved down the Yangtze River to cities like Yichang, Wuhan and Shanghai and on to other parts of the country or the world.

It also has a number of highways, expressways and railways, as well as Jiangbei Airport, only 15 minutes away.

Inside the city, the zone is accessible through a number of roads and two subway lines. There are also bridges across the Yangtze to other parts of Chongqing, and a new one in the works.

It also has adequate water, power, gas, telecommunications, and sewage treatment facilities.

In two decades, the zone has developed an industrial system covering automobiles, motorcycles, electronic information, biomedicines, fine chemicals, new materials, food processing, and garments.

Its emerging industries in recent years include shipbuilding, numerically controlled machine tools, the Internet-of-things, logistics, and new energy.

Other attractions are the zone's amenities for living and services such as education, from kindergarten to university; health care, from community to top-level hospitals; shopping, entertainment, recreation, and sports.

Expansion plans

Expansion plan in recent years involve greater opportunities to investors, such as a new area in Chayuan, to the south of the Yangtze River. This 59-square-kilometer area is an example of the need for investment in both infrastructure and industrial development.

Local authorities expect the economic and technological development zone to be an important force in the municipality's growth.

The administrative committee has predicted that projects over the next four years will need 200 billion yuan in backing and will have an output worth 100 billion yuan by 2015.

The goal is to turn the zone into a high-level industrial base for advanced manufacturing, modern services, logistics, and high-tech R&D.

The committee has said they expect the zone to have more than 80 high-tech R&D companies by 2015, with annual revenues above 20 billion yuan.

They have also estimated that they will have around 50 multinationals, including 20 Fortune 500 companies, by the same year.

And protecting the environment and improving the standard of living are major concerns. Their plan calls for 60 percent of the zone to be covered by trees and grass, and a per capita green space of 22 square meters, by 2015.

The local government is getting involved by trying to improve air quality in the hope that they can have more than 320 days a year meeting national healthy-level standards.

In addition, it plans to improve public security, social welfare, and health care to make certain that its people live better, happier lives.

The Chongqing Economic and Technological Development Zone now covers a 90-sq-km area. In 2010, it reported total revenues of 96 billion yuan, an increase of 23 percent over 2009.

Its foreign trade volume was worth $2 billion the same year, a growth of 31 percent from the previous year.

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Meet the man who is driving Chongqing
Updated: 2011-09-03 07:47
China Daily (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/kindle/2011-09/03/content_13611089.htm)

CHONGQING - Huang Qifan, the mayor of Chongqing, said that the government's go-west strategy has brought enormous benefits to the western part of China over the past 10 years.

The 59-year-old said he believed the program had built the platform for a rebalancing of the Chinese economy, with the west also beginning to enjoy the higher standard of living prevalent in the east of the country.

He cited Chongqing's GDP, which will increase from 100 billion yuan ($15.7 billion) at the turn of the century to an estimated 960 billion yuan this year.

"Because of this strategy, the gap between the economic level of the east and the west has quickly reduced. Over the past 10 years, the growth rate in the western part of China has been much faster than the east," he said.

The mayor said the landscape of Chongqing, in particular, has been transformed.

"Ten years ago there were only 100 kilometers of railways, now there are 1,500 km. In terms of expressways, there were only 100 km, now there are 2,000 km of expressways and highways," he said.

Huang, who has a dry sense of humor and a penchant for cigars, officially became mayor last year after a brief period as acting mayor. He had played an influential role in the development of the municipality as vice-mayor since 2001.

He is one of the few political figures in China to have had played a significant role in the development of both the east and west of the country.

Before arriving in Chongqing, he had a long career working in the local government of Shanghai, culminating in being deputy secretary-general of Shanghai municipal government and director of its economic committee.

He said the setting up of economic zones in eastern cities such as Shanghai after China's reform and opening-up in the late 1970s is very different from the current go-west campaign.

"We cannot just copy the coastal area of China in terms of the growth model. We need to create a new path of growth in line with our own conditions," he said.

One major difference is establishing industries that can manufacture their own components locally, instead of importing them from overseas.

"We are 2,000 km away from the coast, so there are heavy logistics costs if we want to bring in raw materials and components from overseas," he said.

One of the major successes has been bringing in companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co, which manufactures its components in the area.

"We recently started a project producing 100 million computers and we made a decision that 80 percent of the components of these computers would be made locally and then the products would be sold to overseas markets," he said.

"We call it vertical integration, where we produce parts and components and prepare raw materials locally. This model is quite suitable to Chongqing's own conditions."

Huang, who is from East China's Zhejiang province and who started work in a Shanghai coking plant in the 1960s before moving to local government, is renowned for his prodigious recall of statistics, which he constantly reels off at will.

He is keen to tackle head on suggestions that the go-west strategy has achieved its successes by building infrastructure at the expense of racking up local government debt.

"In terms of rating, I think the level of debt of Chongqing can be said to be triple A," he said.

Chongqing's debt of 180 billion yuan to a GDP of 960 billion yuan gives it a debt-to-GDP ratio of around only 20 percent, he said.

Huang said one of the great legacies of go-west will be Chongqing becoming the central point of a new "silk route" to Europe.

Goods are currently transported to the city and carried by railway to Xinjiang and then through Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland and Belarus into western Europe because of a new customs agreement with the European Union.

The city will become a major "inland port" and will no longer be reliant on transporting goods to the south of the country to be shipped overseas.

The mayor said that driving domestic demand in West China will be a key part of the success of the go-west strategy over the next 10 years.

"The growth model of Chongqing is in a transitional period. In the past we were seeing 70 percent of the growth of Chongqing coming from investment and 30 percent from exports, with domestic demand only having a marginal effect," he said.

"In our vision of the next five years, domestic demand will contribute 50 percent, investment 30 percent and exports just 20 percent."

^^A Wu-speaking mayor in Chongqing? GREAT NEWS!

In the last pics from Chongqing i see that the water has a higher level and it flows slower. Could it be that the water of the three gorges dam has reached Chongqing?

Does anyone know the status of the Chaotianmen site where the rivers converge?
A few years ago there was a competition... and a few firms were shortlisted... then nothing.
Here are a few images of NBBJ's shortlisted design. I may be able to get the other shortlisted design if anyone is interested. Hopefully they will build there... it is too important a site to sit vacant.
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please get more of this

the site is currently being cleared up, but slower than anything,well, as you can see, it is a huge project ,a lot to be done, but its not dead

70 floors plus structure, likely a supertall :)

Chongqing needs a landmark tower like that, plus some refreshing along the riverbanks. :)

video of the skyscrapers at yuzhong. i'm not sure exactly what buildings are shown and what buildings under construction are visible, but i still felt to share. cheesetree sent it to me after her chongqing vacation last weekend, so this video is around 9th to 11th september.

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credit goes to cheesetree (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=837941)

Chongqing Monorail Line 3 extends from Yuanyang to north
2011-11-03 14:52:57

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Chongqing Rail Transit Group said on November 2, 2011, the last track girder in the section between Ertang and Chongqing Airport of Monorail Line 3 is set down. Meanwhile, the Garden Expo Station, Cuiyun Station and Changfu Road Station in the section between Yuanyang and Changfu on Line 3 will be opened to traffic on November 8.

Then the trial operation in the section between Lianglukou and Changfu on Line 3 will be realized, and 2 new trains will be added on this line. A full journey on the line will be increased to 35 minutes from the former 29 minutes.

Line 3 may extend to Chongqing Airport and Ertang. At that time, a complete trial operation of the 39.1 kilometers Chongqing Monorail Line 3, with 29 stations, will be finished. (Translated by Deng Jun, Fathom Language Limited)

Restoration on 800-year-old Buddhist statue to be finished by 2014

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CHONGQING, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The restoration of a famous ancient Buddhist statue in southwest China is going smoothly and will be completed by 2014, local cultural authorities said on Wednesday.

The Qianshou (Thousand Hands) Guanyin (the bodhisattva associated with compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists) sculpture was carved some 800 years ago during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 to 1279) on Mount Baoding in Dazu county in the municipality of Chongqing.

The "Goddess of Mercy" has 1,007 arms, with one eye carved in each palm. The cave where the goddess lies is 7.7 meters high and 12.5 meters wide.

Over the centuries, the sculpture's color has faded, some of the gold foil covering has peeled off, cracks have appeared, and in 2007 part of one of the statue's many fingers fell off.

The restoration project, dubbed "China's No.1 rock heritage preservation project," kicked off in April and is expected to cost 40 million yuan (6.35 million U.S. dollars), according to an official with the city's culture, radio and TV bureau.

More than 50,000 individual rock carvings lie in the grottoes at Dazu. The carvings date back as early as the Tang Dynasty (618-907). They were listed as a major World Heritage site by the UNESCO in 1999.

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ill update some

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this is from 1 year ago
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from classic023

Thanks! Keep the updates coming!

Short torque
Updated: 2011-11-21 07:58
China Daily

The construction of a new 5-billion-yuan plant of Japanese carmaker Suzuki's joint venture with Chang'an Automobile Group recently kicked off in Chongqing and it is scheduled to start production in 2013.

With initial yearly capacity of 150,000 cars and the same number of engines, the plant is designed to make 250,000 cars and 300,000 engines a year when fully completed in 2015.

The joint venture sold more than 180,000 vehicles in China in the first 10 months. But Suzuki still lags far behind its Japanese counterparts in the country, although it started business in the country in 1993.

Recent media reports said that Chang'an was asking its Japanese partner to introduce more new models and accelerate local production and R&D.

Wow, there are a lot of great projects in Chongqing. Impressive.

Chongqing Chaotianmen
Chongqing, China,
Located at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jailing rivers, the site for this mixed-use project is imbued with a significance that is immediately symbolic. The foremost of Chongqing’s traditional city gates (the Chaotian Gate, or “gate to heaven”), where emperors carried out the ceremonies of diplomatic greeting, it has long been a historical landmark. As the city’s initial dock area on the Yangtze, it also represents the great tradition of the shipping highway, which has stoked this major inland city’s development and now drives its evolution as one of China’s most important modern cities. The design for the project to be situated at this gateway is generated by the image of powerful sails upon the water. The outer facades of the project’s six towers—the transparent surfaces that will face the water to the north—are meant to recall a fleet of ancient Chinese ships, with their huge rectangles of white canvas filled by the wind. This image is recognizable in its simplicity, yet iconic in its form. In addition to serving as an outward-facing gateway symbol, the project also has a strong presence in forming the apex of the city’s peninsula. The south-facing facades—the inside of the arc of towers—look back to the city in a gently embracing way, covered by green hanging gardens that meet the ground at a podium roof level that is itself a green amphitheater “park” of gardens, pools, and public circulation. This park area gently rises to the north, framing views to the water between the towers—which will house residences, offices, and a hotel—and maximizing views of the project itself from the city. Underneath the park level, the podium consists of five levels of public program, including retail and cultural facilities, as well as hubs for land and water transportation. The two central outer towers, directly facing the rivers’ convergence to the north, are the project’s tallest structures (348 meters above flood plain; 77 floors each), with the central axis of the project proceeding back from between them, toward the city. Tucked immediately within the two tallest towers, extending the arc, are four shorter towers (each with 62 floors), across which runs an exterior, connecting garden that hovers 248 meters in the air. In addition to linking these four towers—two of which are office space (and actually “twin” stepped segments of the two larger, central towers), and two of which are residential—the garden echoes the amphitheater park far below and creates a dramatic viewing platform that optimizes this site’s unique views back to the rest of Chongqing. Within the garden level’s hull is a full floor of hotel lobby, restaurants, and clubs. Above are gardens and pools. The remaining two (freestanding) towers, which complete the prow-like arc of six, are residential, each 57 floors tall, making for a project total of 302,000 square meters of prime living units.
Project Type: Mixed Use
Client: CapitaLand Ltd / CapitaMalls Asia Ltd / Singbridge Holdings Pte. Ltd.
Size: 8800000

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CapitaLand Adds Chongqing Property to China Assets
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By CHUN HAN WONG

SINGAPORE—CapitaLand Ltd., Southeast Asia's largest property developer by market value, will jointly develop a mixed-use property project in China estimated to cost about 4.1 billion Singapore dollars (US$3.15 billion).


Courtesy of CapitaLand
An artist's depiction of what the new Chongqing development would look like from the river.

The project in southwestern Chongqing city will comprise residential, retail, office and hotel properties with a total gross floor area of 817,000 square meters, CapitaLand said Tuesday.

The consortium, which includes CapitaMalls Asia Ltd. and Singbridge HoldingsPte. Ltd., was awarded the 91,783-square-meter site for about S$1.28 billion in a tender that closed Monday, it said, adding that the project—to be built over five years—will be funded with debt and equity.

CapitaLand sees the project as part of its plan to grow its key China market, which comprises about 35% of its total assets, group Chief Financial Officer Arthur Lang said at a news briefing. "In the next three to five years, if you look at our asset composition, China will end up between 42%-45% of total assets," he said.

Nonetheless, the group has seen credit costs rise in China as a result of Beijing's attempts to temper a buoyant property market.

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Courtesy of CapitaLand
The project in southwestern Chongqing city will comprise residential, retail, office and hotel properties with a total gross floor area of 817,000 square meters.

"The availability of credit is still there but it has gotten a little bit more expensive," Mr. Lang said. "In the past, we would have gotten probably a 10% discount to the [People's Bank of China] reference rate; now we're getting probably a 10% premium to PBOC."

The group also expects China to keep its tightened stance on the property market well into 2012. "It won't happen so soon, but policy is likely to change any time from the second half of next year," Chief Operating Officer Lim Ming Yan said at the news briefing.

CapitaLand and its 65.5%-owned shopping-mall developer CapitaMalls Asia will collectively hold a 50% stake in the Chongqing development, with Singbridge, a wholly owned unit of Singapore state-investment company Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., holding 30%. The remainder is held by unnamed investors.

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More news/rumors lately, macpolo? Long time without CQ news.

More news/rumors lately, macpolo? Long time without CQ news.

i don't buy rumors any more, u know why.......

^^ They're always nice to know. Remember you know about Chaotianmen twin tower rumor since 2008.

An article from SCMP about CQ. It seems like CQ is more important than I originally thought, not just for inland China, but also for whole of China.

Chongqing rising

Eric Li argues that the success of one inland region's socialist experiments to advance the residency system, tackle corruption and open up its market will pave the way for China's next stage of development

PUBLIC POLICY INNOVATION

Dec 01, 2011

A quiet revolution is happening in China's hinterland. If you think China's rise in the past 30 years has changed the world, you haven't seen anything yet.
Breakneck growth has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and transformed a poor agrarian society into a global industrial powerhouse in one generation. Yet, the world's second-largest economy is now at a crossroads. Its spectacular success has also brought a large wealth gap and widespread corruption that threaten the sustainability of its development and social cohesion.


There are two Chinas: the coastal regions built on export-driven growth and the grossly underdeveloped larger inland regions. Will China continue its current trajectory and become a major global power, as America did? Or will it languish in an ever-widening divide between the haves and the have-nots with the latter dragging down the former?


The answer may be found in the mountainous and, until recently, one of the most underdeveloped regions in China's west. In merely half a decade, the municipality of Chongqing has become a major laboratory of public policy innovation. Three large-scale policy experiments interwoven by one revolutionary idea - growth with equity - are fast transforming this region. These experiments in urbanisation, social fairness and market economics are based on unmistakably Chinese values.


Urbanisation is taking place at a speed and scale unprecedented even by China's standards. Of the 32 million inhabitants of Chongqing, only 12 million are registered as city dwellers. Unlike the coastal regions that were mostly already urban at the beginning of economic reform, Chongqing's demographic is a mirror image of China at large.


In 2008, a rural land exchange was set up. The exchange now allows farmers to turn their farmhouses back to arable land in exchange for cash from developers who buy the square footage in the form of additional quotas for urban development. So far, US$1.5billion worth of transactions have taken place.


Overall, about two million people have been registered as urban residents. Another million are expected to make the transition within a year. A total of seven million are projected to take up urban residency by 2020, taking the urbanisation rate to 60per cent. What is more remarkable is that this demographic shift is taking place without the loss of arable land.


The government has also stepped in to ensure the welfare of those at risk of being left behind, by building 430million sq ft of low- income housing.


The biggest impact has come from Chongqing's pioneering of a system that grants new city dwellers the much-coveted urban residency status and its accompanying education and health care benefits five years after taking up city residence. In one fell swoop, the most intransigent structural divide, the hukou system, is at last being breached.


To attack corruption, the government began with the hardest nut to crack - the pharmaceutical industry in the public health sector. A computerised procurement system has been built for use by all public hospitals. Their drug purchases can be viewed openly by the public, real-time, with names of suppliers and unit prices. This programme is helping to regain public trust.


Open market economics forms the third pillar of Chongqing's development. In 2007, only 25per cent of its gross domestic product was generated by the private sector. Today, that figure is 60per cent. This remarkable growth has in part been fuelled by microfinance. As state banks concentrate their lending to state-owned enterprises, capital formation has been the bottleneck to the expansion of private small and medium-sized enterprises across the country. In Chongqing, hundreds of government-approved and regulated private non-bank providers of microcredit have lent US$15billion to SMEs this year alone.


At the same time, government policies are spurring large-scale developments in technology and manufacturing. The development model of the coastal regions encourages low-end assembly industries, with higher-value components still being made overseas. In landlocked Chongqing, the government opted for the rapid build-up of scale in downstream assembly. This is driving component makers to move production from overseas to Chongqing.


Perhaps the most significant element of the Chongqing phenomenon is its underlying driver: public morality. A Chinese brand of socialism underpins its development. The red-culture campaign, with its revival of communist revolutionary music, reaffirms modern communitarian values that resonate with Chinese culture's Confucian roots. Rapid economic development can only be justified and sustained on the basis of a fair and just society. A strong government is proving to be effective because it is consistent with the Chinese tradition of honouring moral authority vested in political power. In an increasingly materialistic environment, the government led by the Communist Party is reclaiming the moral high ground in the municipality.


The implications are significant. Without genuine development of its inland regions, the rise of China may very well be miscarried.


Deng Xiaoping launched China's economic reforms 32 years ago with the establishment of the first "special economic zone" in Shenzhen - the first stop of China's rise. He relaunched reforms nearly 20 years ago with his "southern tour" that was best symbolised by the emergence of Shanghai - the second stop. But, the sprawling factories of Shenzhen and the glittering towers of Shanghai do not yet a powerful nation make. Could this mountain metropolis be the third stop and final launching pad of the ascendency of a major civilisational power? All eyes are on Chongqing.


Eric X. Li is a venture capitalist in Shanghai and a doctoral candidate at Fudan University's School of International Relations and Public Affairs

Look Like Singapore Marina Bay Sands

Oh MY God (o_O)

Look Like Singapore Marina Bay Sands

Oh MY God (o_O)

same developer and architectural firm :)

i dunno y but when u have a glance tru google earth Chinese big cities seem so weird...packed with no spaces, suburbs n so for... the colours are bizarre too

Huge news

Cesar Pelli is designing Silverstein Properties' A13 plot supertall , we re expecting 470m at least

digging starts next month

^^ cool, have design photo ??

congrats to CQ
23 rd 200+ top out

ITCC by KPF x SOM x P & T 256m

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Something REd and amAzing : Guotai Opera is getting prettier by day

IMO, Best of chongqing s UC project

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JieFangBei Area Renovation finally finished

bunch of new designed store opened
including one of the biggest LV in china
and first time of the new style Tiffany boutique

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@macpolo

I really appreciate your Chongqing project updates. Thank you.

@macpolo

I really appreciate your Chongqing project updates. Thank you.

thats really nice of you

i might be the few who still has about tiny expectation from chongqing. others just move on...thats why the construction photos are getting hard to find... but your comment made us realise they re not totally useless.

skyline @ today

YUZHONG skyline from Nanan

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YUZHONG skyline from Jiangbei

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thats really nice of you

i might be the few who still has about tiny expectation from chongqing. others just move on...thats why the construction photos are getting hard to find... but your comment made us realise they re not totally useless.

They're definetely not useless!:)
Why give up CQ? CQ is still at the beginning of its development (compared to Shanghai or Guangzhou), but it already has an remarkable skyline. Yes, there were a lot of supertall projects that "just" turned out as 200m+ towers, but the supertalls for CQ will come. The Chaotianmen project shows that we can still expect a lot of CQ in the coming years.
So keep the updates coming! :cheers:

Edit: BTW are you from Chongqing?

They're definetely not useless!:)
Why give up CQ? CQ is still at the beginning of its development (compared to Shanghai or Guangzhou), but it already has an remarkable skyline. Yes, there were a lot of supertall projects that "just" turned out as 200m+ towers, but the supertalls for CQ will come. The Chaotianmen project shows that we can still expect a lot of CQ in the coming years.
So keep the updates coming! :cheers:

Edit: BTW are you from Chongqing?

chongqinger in paris







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Toxic fumes kill 6 workers in SW China tunnel
Updated: 2011-12-10 09:48
Xinhua

CHONGQING - Six workers suffocated to death in a smoking railway tunnel under construction in southwestern Chongqing municipality early Friday morning, local authorities said.

The accident happened at 12:30 am after welders inadvertently ignited rubber materials, unleashing toxic fumes into the tunnel in Chongqing's Yongchuan district, according to the local work safety administration.

Two workers died at the scene, and another four perished in the hospital, the administration said.

The tunnel is part of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, a key transportation project between the two metropolises of Chengdu and Chongqing.

sigh....RIP

Quite concerned at the amount of construction deaths across China recently. Is it a governance problem, lack of safety awareness, or mere coincidence?

^^ Definitely lack of safety guidance and overall problems (such as Strict deadlines to meet the demands and probably unwillingness to pour more money on safety issues beforehand). Although workers are often ignorant of safety measures too and its a big problem.

Cameras and patrols to guard city's safety
Updated: 2011-12-17 07:24
China Daily

CHONGQING - A video surveillance network with more than 500,000 video cameras citywide has been set up to further improve police response to emergencies, a local official said.

Chongqing has devoted 27 billion yuan ($4.2 billion) to the surveillance network, and 100,000 more video cameras will be installed by the end of next year, said Yuan Qinhua, a senior official with the Chongqing politics and law commission, at a news conference on Thursday.

The video surveillance network, a major part of an emergency response system, covers communities, roads and streets and other public spaces for anti-crime, anti-terrorism and traffic regulation.

The network is the largest video surveillance and emergency reaction system in the nation, according to the authority.

Yuan said the city now has 500 police patrol platforms - 7- to 8-meter-tall platforms - across the city and 14,000 police officers to man them.

The platforms were invented by the Chongqing police, and the Ministry of Public Security is planning to promote them in other provinces.

According to Yuan, crime rates at schools have been reduced by 60 percent compared with last year, thanks to the large police presence on the 11,000 campuses in the city. Six thousand campus police and 68,000 safety guards watch over the campuses.

Yuan concluded that the municipality's effort to build a "Safe Chongqing", begun in 2009, has paid off and residents are feeling more safe.

Even so, according to research, theft, fire and traffic accidents still top residents' concerns.

For some residents, the wide distribution of police patrol platforms has been a major factor in their increased sense of safety. Mo Shufang, 72, lives in the Shibadi area, an urban village. She said that in the past, residents dared not go out after 11 pm because of the crime.

"You had to be on the alert for pick-pocketing and robbery all the time. There were even cases of traffic police being attacked," Mo said. Now with the closest police patrol platform only hundreds of meters away, she said, going out after 11 pm is no longer a problem and crime has fallen considerably.

Peng Meiying, 60, a resident of the Shapingba district, would previously never allow her granddaughter to go to school alone, even though it is only a 30 minute bus ride.

But with the police patrol platform visible everywhere, Peng said that she now would permit it if she was too busy to escort the girl.

Ji Jin in Chongqing contributed to this story.

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A light rail train pulls in to Changfulu Road Station along the Rail Transit Line 3 in Chongqing, southwest China, Dec. 29, 2011. The entire line of Chongqing Rail Transit Line 3 opened to traffic on Friday as part of it had operated since September this year. The 39.1-kilometer Chongqing Rail Transit Line 3, built since 2007, linked the north to south of main urban zone of Chongqing with total investment of 13.8 billion Yuan (about 2.183 billion US dollars). (Xinhua/Li Jian)

Chongqing to build a new "人人" ["People"] shaped skyscraper
Updated 2012-01-02
ChinaSmack, iFeng and NetEase

At Danzishi on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Nanan district of Chongqing city is a new building whose outer shape resembles the two [Chinese] characters of "人人" ["people people"]. This architectural design has a height of 280 meters, with the design of the building using the Chongqing city’s "人人重庆" ["Everyone Chongqing"] symbol/logo as reference, and is a multi-purpose building combining restaurants, entertainment, leisure, and other functions. This building is expected to formally begin construction in 2013.

The two "people" when arranged this way also resembles the character qing character (庆) in Chongqing.

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chaotianmen phase 2
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chaotianmen phase 2

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Does it make sound like a pipe organ? :)

My god the opera is really beautiful at night... It kind of puts the China Pavilion in Shanghai down to shame!

My god the opera is really beautiful at night... It kind of puts the China Pavilion in Shanghai down to shame!

it takes almost 10 years to build, it has to be good

The lightning scheme of the opera house is really nice.

wow, loving the opera house

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Photo taken on Dec. 31, 2011 shows the Erqi Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan, the capital of central China's Hubei Province. The Erqi Yangtze River Bridge, the seventh Yangtze River Bridge, was completed and opened to traffic on Saturday. The bridge, 6,507 meters in total length with two main 616-meter spans, was both the three-bridgehead cable-stayed and composite-beam cable-stayed bridge with the world's largest span. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)

To the rescue of "Mother Town"

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A bird's-eye view of Chongqing's 18 Steps Road "urban village". (Photo: Zhong Guilin / for China Daily)

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (China Daily) -- Plans to renovate this historical area of Chongqing have been greeted by fears that a cultural icon will disappear, and relief that poor houses with bad sanitation will be improved. Ji Jin reports.

Shibati Road (18 Steps Road) in Chongqing is known as the municipality's "Mother Town", but its 100 years of history now faces the challenge of renovation.

There are two pedestrian streets in Yuzhong district, Chongqing. One is Jiefang Bei (Liberation Monument) and the other, not too far away, is 18 Steps Road.

At Liberation Monument a bustling and prosperous modern city life can be experienced. At 18 Steps you can find a glimpse of old Chongqing.

The 18 Steps follows along the Yangtze River and despite being near the Central Business District, it is often referred to an "urban village" because old and dilapidated stilt houses dominate it.

The steep street is made of stone steps that descend from the upper CBD to the lower part of the "hill city" by the Yangtze.

The oldest person living in the area is 104-year-old Chen Shuhua, who lives at 135, Houchi Lane, in an apartment of less than 20 square meters, on the second floor of an old wooden house.

"The house we live in has a history of nearly 100 years," says Chen's daughter, Mo Shufan. "My mother has been living in this house since she married at 18."

Nearly all the houses in the neighborhood are wooden.

"Some of the houses have been reinforced with bricks by residents, but our house is so old and shabby we are worried about its safety," Mo says.

"We haven't reinforced our house and we are afraid of falling through the floor."

On the walls of most 18 Steps houses there are now big red Chinese characters for "demolition" and it is clear the days of these houses and the community are numbered.

"I've lived here since I started to remember things," Mo says. "It's been very pleasant to live here, and I will feel sad to leave."

Mo says she knows of two stories recounting the origin of 18 Steps. One version is that in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) there was an old well in the street, and the distance between the well and the nearest house was 18 steps.

The other story suggests the road was divided into several sections by 18 stone steps and at each section there was a platform for people to have a rest. Chongqing, traditionally, has been divided by its hills into an upper and lower half, which people accessed by stone steps.

"There were not too many streets connecting the upper and lower sections of the city, and 18 Steps was one of the most important. In that time, the street was thriving and prosperous," Mo says.

She says she thought of Liyuan Tea Shop first when she knew the community was going to be torn down.

"That tea shop has been open for years and I used to sit by the window to get a panoramic view of the old street when it was raining," she says.

"I hope the government will save the tea shop. It would be a shame to tear it down."

The street has been in poor condition since the 1970s. Garbage and unpleasant smells have become a part of locals' daily lives. A lot of people living at the bottom of society gather and live here because of the low rents.

Plans to renovate the area have been on the table for the past 20 years and some residents are anxious for this to happen soon.

A second-hand mobile-phone store owner surnamed Tan says that he has lived in the community for about 15 years because of low rents and has run his store on Houchi Lane for two years. He has changed his line of business several times, but never left the area.

"I hope the road can be torn down as soon as possible," he says. "This area is in poor condition and sanitation is bad."

Local government officers say the renovations planned for Yuzhong district, including 18 Steps, will have a Chongqing flavor.

Zheng Binghong, an architecture professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, suggests 18 Steps should be fully investigated before the renovations take place because the area is rich in history.

Sun Yuanming, a researcher at Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences and chairman of Applied Psychology Research Center, says that because the street is one of the few places with a traditional Chongqing culture, reconstruction standards should be higher than those for normal residential areas and sites of historic interest should be protected.

Sun says the renewal plans should display respect toward the history and culture of Chongqing.

In addition to some buildings being preserved, he says intangible cultural heritage, such as the traditional lifestyle of locals, should also be protected.

"If there are no special cultural symbols in our city, everything will be the same," Sun says.

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Thank you Macpolo for all your contribution to Chongqing skyline and updates! The opera house definitely looking good.

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