Architects Guiding in China

21/04/2016

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/04/the-psychological-cost-of-boring-buildings.html

Scientists are investigating the emotional toll of ugly architecture.

09/04/2016

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/04/07/472258492/after-decades-a-shanghai-preservationist-heads-home-to-america

Retired American diplomat Tess Johnston, 84, made a second career working to preserve the rich colonial architecture of Shanghai.

24/02/2016

"the same directive also says there are to be no more gated residential communities. Those already in place will be gradually opened to the public, with their roads opened to traffic with one goal being to ease congestion"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/world/asia/china-weird-architecture.html

A directive issued by the State Council and the Communist Party’s Central Committee says buildings should be “pleasing to the eye.’’

11/02/2016

https://sourceable.net/beautiful-architecture-positively-affects-human-health-2/

According to researchers at Warwick Business School in Coventry, UK, beautiful architecture has a positive impact on human health.

07/09/2015

https://asialyst.com/fr/2015/09/07/urbanisation-chinoise-jusqu-ici-tout-va-bien/

Quid des villes chinoises délaissées pour un développement urbain « durable » et « harmonieux », où l’économie prime sur le reste ?

07/07/2015

CHIARC SIGHTS guide THOMAS JAEHNDEL about hongkong – 20 years ago but still up to date. [german only]

http://www.fernweh.de/chinahongkong.html

Das sollten Sie in der Mega-Metropole gesehen und erlebt haben

13/05/2015

inside the local real estate business

https://vimeo.com/126296261

In this short documentary, housing developers in China hire ordinary foreigners to pose as celebrities, boosting flagging property sales. Produced by: David Borenstein Read…

19/02/2015

NEW SIGHTS 2015
http://sights.chiarc.com/

27/12/2013

Star architects don’t just design buildings. They are also poet-philosophers whose sacred aim is to explain the deeper significance of their latest office or shopping centre. We search for some sense in their musings

30/01/2013

Istanbul (TR) - Guiding Architects is a growing international network for architectural guided tours. The organization is looking forward its annual meeting, from 31 January to 3 February 2013, which will take place in Istanbul. The local member organization, Arkistan, will host the meeting and offe...

23/01/2013

"The contrast between the haves and the have-nots is stark. In Beijing alone there are over 9,000 yuan billionaires, and although it is notoriously difficult to get data on the number of households that live under the government poverty threshold of 2,300 Chinese yuan (US$ 365)or less per year, an estimated one million people live in a vast subterranean world of low-cost housing, attracting migrants known as “mice” who are driven underground by sky-high rents. These extremes are not limited to China or the developing world. Megacities, wherever they are, are the most unequal places on earth."

Whether we like them or not, megacities will increasingly become the future of our planet, writes the World Economic Forum’s Carl Björkman. For the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. By 2050, the world’s cities will absorb 3 billion people, at which point 70% of t...