I realized that Tianjin has become China's most active city concerning 200m+ projects. Please help me to add missing projects and tell me about any mistake you find. I know there are many other vague proposals, but I don't think we should include them by the moment.
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Possible supertall in eco-city, stunning renders:

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Kalarch INC seek to inspire Tianjin to read through literary-themed library design


A new proposal has recently emerged; planning to radically redefine the appearance of the Tianjin Binhai Library, an existing four-storey building situated aside the Tianjin River, China. Devised by the minds of KDG group’s architectural team, the building is prospected to act as the pivotal feature on the waterfront, centralised amidst an outreaching area continuing on the extensive new development. At the beginning of the design process, KDG decided to seek inspiration inwards, whilst staying continually conscious of the eventual intended usage: “We looked for a dialogue between the façade and the content of the building, in this case, the books; this is why we were inspired by one of the greatest inventions of China, the process of paper-making.”

The façade design was developed in a rather unusual, relaxed, manner; namely, the playful examination of a piece of paper. The architects folded the paper in a way that loosely corresponded to the base, and layout, of the existing building, whilst examining the new contours being created; this led to the eventual visualisation of the new structure’s skin. When constructed, extensions will be administered in a perforated metal, which will allow for different angles and views of the library. Holes have been rendered into the façade, with an expressed visual metaphor for the importance of reading between the lines; these breaks in the overall external aesthetics, will supposedly force everybody to ‘read between the lines’ of the 2,100 sq m library itself.

The idea, behind renovations, was not only to redefine, to the benefit of the surrounding city, its extrinsic appearance, but also to have a positive influence on the environment inside the building. In order to achieve this approach, all angles of their frontispiece define two different types of spaces incorporated within: classrooms and study areas, positioned to provide users a sight-line to the sky; and lobbies and exhibition rooms, facing out onto the reflective surfaces of the river.

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U.S. property developer builds financial plaza in Tianjin

TIANJIN, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Construction on a U.S.-invested financial plaza began on Monday in north China's coastal city of Tianjin.

The construction of the plaza is being funded by Tishman Speyer, a U.S. real estate developer, at a cost of about 6 billion yuan (948 million U.S. dollars).

With a total area of 420,000 square meters, the plaza is designed to be a financial complex consisting of office buildings, hotels and relevant facilities, according to Katherine Farley, senior managing director of Tishman Speyer.

The building complex is composed of four towers and will become a local landmark upon its completion, said Farley, noting that the highest tower will be 350 meters tall.

"We are confident and positive about investment prospects in the Yujiapu district, where the plaza is located," said Farley.

Built in the heart of the Tianjin Binhai New Area, the Yujiapu Financial District is expected to become one of the world's largest financial zones over the next 10 years.

More than 300 enterprises have already registered in the district with total registered capital of over 70 billion yuan.

About 120 km southeast of Beijing, the Tianjin Binhai New Area is home to the largest port in north China.

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200m tower in Tianjin-Singapore Eco City....

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Aedas Plans for some plots in Tianjin-Singapore Economic City:

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Tunnel completed beneath Yellow River for China's south-north water diversion project

JINAN, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- A tunnel beneath the Yellow River, China's second longest, and related water gates and ditches have been completed for the eastern route of the country's giant south-north water diversion project.

Water diverted from the Yangtze, China's largest river, along the eastern route will flow through the tunnel to the parched northern provinces of Shandong and Hebei as well as Tianjin Municipality, the Shandong Provincial Construction Management Bureau of South-to-North Water Diversion Project said in a statement on Sunday.

Dubbed the "throat" of the eastern route, the 585-meter-long tunnel, 9 meters in diameter and up to 70 meters deep, will divert 442 million cubic meters of water annually.

Construction of the key project on the eastern route cost 613 million yuan (97.2 million U.S. dollars) and lasted four years.

The south-north water diversion project was first conceived by former Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1952 and the State Council, or China's Cabinet, approved the ambitious project in December 2002 after debates that lasted nearly a half century.

The project, with an estimated total cost of 500 billion yuan, has aroused global concerns over land use, possible regional climate changes, environmental damage, impact on agriculture and human suffering in the wake of massive relocations.

The project plans to divert 44.8 billion cubic meters of water annually from the Yangtze through eastern, middle and western routes to relieve water shortages in north China by 2050.

The construction of the 1,467-km-long eastern route began in December 2002 and is expected to supply water to northern China by 2013.

Yujiabao CBD constructions

by abcd2012, gaoloumi.com

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Student Centre inspired by ancient tradition of inverted form with cantilevering floors

The traditional Chinese garden art consists in putting the simple unit of buildings into a vague or narrow space, at random, to result in a picturesque vision.

When looking at the building concept in Europe, the building reduces volume as it is built up. But in China, the building is constructed with the ground plan often smaller than the roof, which cantilevers beyond.

The Students Center is treated as a Chinese garden in the campus. Each level is built up and twists, forming cantilevered floors, which are orientated differently. As the building twists on its core, the floor slabs may touch each other with their neighbour's slabs at the same level. The corners of every flat may then be a balcony, a corridor, the shading louvers or the entrances canopy.

A suspended translucent belt in aluminum encloses the buildings as a fence, just as in a Chinese garden. This symbolic enclosure allows peoples to access freely to the building, and harmonises with the scale of the big concert hall beside.

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^^The students in those pictures really seems to be "hard-working students", lol. Doing shopping and taking boat tours? :lol: Just saying, it's quite funny looking.

Eco-city not yet green, but offers hope
Daily Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9151487/Chinese-move-to-their-eco-city-of-the-future.html)
March 18, 2012

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The world's largest eco-city is not a green, carbon-free paradise where cars are banned from the streets.

Instead, as its first residents moved in this month, they found it is remarkably like most other Chinese cities: shrouded in smog and depressingly grey.

But then the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City, just over an hour from Beijing by train, is not supposed to be a whizzy vision of the future.

It is far more practical - a model for how Chinese cities could develop and solve some of the enormous problems facing them: permanent gridlock, a lack of water and ruinous electricity bills.

If a few of the small changes adopted in Tianjin were rolled out nationwide, the results could dramatically change China's devastating impact on the environment.

"Our eco-city is an experiment, but it is also practical," said Wang Meng, the deputy director of construction. "There are over 100 eco-cities in the world now, and they are all different. If you look at the one in Abu Dhabi, they spent a huge amount of money and bought a lot of technology. It is very grand, but is it useful?"

To date, almost all of the world's eco-cities have been green follies, crippled by a central paradox: the more they enforce bothersome environmental rules, the less people want to live in them.

In Tianjin, the residents will not be expected to make any particular effort to be green. "If they take the bus and sort their rubbish for recycling, they will be making their contribution," said a spokesman for the city.

Their main contribution, in fact, is to be guinea pigs as planners experiment with the city around them. General Motors, for example, is using Tianjin to work out if electric driverless cars can function in a normal traffic system.

"Some eco-cities are too idealistic. In Tianjin they do not want to stop people from driving, but they do want to put into place policies that will help our vehicles to operate successfully," said Chris Borroni-Bird, the head of GM's autonomous driving project in Detroit.

He said Tianjin will allow GM to road-test the next generation of vehicles: small urban cars that drive themselves but are safe in an environment full of unpredictable drivers, pedestrians and cyclists.

Not only does China desperately need to solve its traffic problems, but it is one of the few countries that can throw significant resources at new ideas and indeed build cities from scratch in order to experiment.

Other projects on trial include a low energy lighting system from Philips and rubbish bins that can empty themselves, sucking litter into an underground network, by a Swedish company called Envac.

"We are not sure about that one," said a spokesman. "It requires people not to put the wrong sort of rubbish in the bins, or it could jam the system and prove expensive to maintain."

Just over three years ago, the site of the eco-city was a desolate wasteland of abandoned salt pans. An area half the size of Manhattan, it was tainted by decades of chemical pollution from the factories that border it.

By the time it is finished, in the next decade or so, some 250 billion yuan (£25 billion) will have been spent by the Chinese and Singaporean governments, and a number of private companies, on transforming the site into a comfortable home for 350,000 people - 60 families have already moved in.

Already, one new technology has been patented.

"We had an industrial reservoir that was full of heavy metals," said Mr Wang. "It used to be so bad that people could not go near it because of the smell. Now we have cleaned it with a special process that we can send to other parts of the country."

In a country where 70 per cent of the rivers are too polluted to provide drinking water, the technology is likely to be a money-spinner. Having ruined vast swathes of its countryside as it raced to wealth, China is now likely to spend billions on cleaning up the mess.

Elsewhere, the government-owned buildings in the city collect their own rain water for reuse, are powered by geothermal energy, have window shutters that move with the light, in order to keep buildings cool, and heating systems that use solar energy.

In a sign of how seriously the project is being taken, eight out of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the all-powerful council that rules the country, have visited.

"The idea is to create something that can be adapted to other cities in China," said Mr Wang. "What we want to develop is cheap technology that we can industrialise, produce and sell on elsewhere. We have to change people's ideas that being green is expensive."

Tianjin airport T2 construction

T2 construction was started on 5/31/2011. T2 will be built in 3 years with a total cost of 5.92 billion yuan. The target 2020 PAX is 25 million.

T2 is the biggest terminal in the middle, the current T1 is the smaller one on the right

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Venue of Summer Davos takes shape in north China's Tianjin

TIANJIN, March 31 (Xinhua)-- Earthworks for the venue of the China "Summer Davos" summit, to be held in September in the north China city of Tianjin, was completed Wednesday.

Xu Xiangyong, safety supervisor of the Meijiang International Convention and Exhibition Center project, said the center, which would be able to accommodate more than 4,000 people, covered 230,000 square meters and would be able to withstand an 8-magnitude earthquake.

The center would be surrounded by an artificial lake of 380,000 square meters and bamboo groves and green islands.

"The lake, greenery and the building's glass roof were designed to help purify the air and save energy for the convention center, which will be in service before May 31," said Xu.

The summit would focus on sustainability and the green economy, said Andre Schneider, managing director of the World Economic Forum (WEF), on March 24.

With the theme, "Driving Growth Through Sustainability," this year's summit, from Sept. 13 to 15, is expected to attract more than 1,500 participants, including business executives, politicians, economists and scientists from about 90 countries.

The Chinese cities of Dalian and Tianjin have offered to host three summer versions of the Davos forum.

New hospital will bring scientific research to the bedside

Tianjin Third Central Hospital is a new hospital for the people of Tianjin, China that puts world-class research at the forefront of healthcare and brings such research directly to the bedside....http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=19766

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^^ Nice renders. Where is the exact location of this hospital? :)

Clean lines and natural light define KSP Jurgen Engel Architekten's Tianjin Art Museum in the city's Hexi District

The Tianjin Art Museum, which in April 2009 was won by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten, has space to house four permanent exhibitions. In addition to rooms for Chinese calligraphy, western art, sculpture, and modern art, there are also galleries in which changing exhibitions can be presented. Together with three additional cultural facilities (a library, an opera house and another new museum) the new exhibition center forms part of a 90-hectare culture and leisure time development in the Hexi district of Tianjin.

This new quarter is dominated by an extensive area of greenery boasting a lake. In the row of striking exhibition and cultural edifices, the art museum is located on the lakeside promenade, which its visible side and main entrance overlook. The new buildings used for cultural purposes face the road, i.e., in the direction of the city, thereby creating a harmonious overall impression.

In front of Tianjin Art Museum the promenade expands to form a plaza, from where visitors are guided via the pedestal storey to the museum’s interior. A museum shop with floor-to-ceiling glass opens onto the entrance courtyard and forecourt. This special entrance creates a close link between the museums interior and exterior. At the same time it represents a transition from the lakeside promenade to inside the four-storey exhibition building with its gross surface area totaling 33,000 sq m.

An imposing entrance hall some 14m in height extends across the entire width of the museum and welcomes the visitors on the ground floor. In addition to the entrance hall this level also houses the museum shop, rooms for the museum’s collection and archive, administration rooms, a conference area, an educational section with child care, an approx. 500 square meter special exhibition section, as well as the VIP area with separate access for special guests.

In terms of spatial structure the museum is reminiscent of a solid stone cube with precise indentations, cut-outs and hollow spaces. All the exhibition rooms, artists’ studio, a restoration room which only visitors can look into, the library, as well as conference and meeting rooms are housed in the solid part of the monolithic structure. The cascade-shaped sequence of stairs and landings leading to the exhibition rooms on the upper storeys seem to have been hewn from this solid slab of stone.

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^^ Love the design and interiors of the future museum. :)

^^Museum opened a few weeks ago actually.

^^Museum opened a few weeks ago actually.

Interesting. Thanks for the info. :)

I think all artifacts and artworks are already in display. :)