BAU (Brearley Architects & Urbanists): The Jiangyin Greenway belongs to a growing movement in China towards healthy, sustainable transportation and urban enjoyment. Infrastructure of this scale has an opportunity, or more correctly a responsibility, to create meaningful places in the city. It is also seen as an opportunity for Jiangyin to assert it...
Project name
Jiangyin Greenway
Architecture firm
BAU (Brearley Architects & Urbanists)
Location
Jiangyin, Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China
Principal architect
James Brearley and Fang Qun
Design team
Guo Liexia, Gao Weiguo, Wu Xiaojian, Pan Linglu, Li Zheng, Yu Zhirui, Rong Yu, Lei Tao, Pablo Jimenez, Manuel Jose Godoy Alvarez, Fang Qun, Huang Fang, Steve Whitford, Peter Felicetti (Concept stage engineer), James Brearley
Structural engineer
Shanghai Lin Tongyan Li Guohao Civil Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
Construction
China Construction City Development Ltd in Jiangyin
Photography
Pavel Shubskiy - Egghead Photo
Client
China Construction City Development Ltd in Jiangyin
Typology
Public infrastructure › Landscape › Transport. Program: Elevated walkway, pedestrian bridges, playgrounds, amphitheatres, cafes, bike shops
Thomas Cravero: Starting from a pattern and using the origami technique, it generates a suggestive piece open to the environment. Its layout provokes new readings of space and activity within a dense native vegetation, it is an intervention for the development of collective activities, but also a place where you can experiment with all the senses;...
Project name
Origami Amphitheater
Architecture firm
Tc.arquitectura
Location
Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tools used
AutoCAD, Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Thomas Cravero
Visualization
Thomas Cravero
Typology
Cultural › Amphitheater
