Perkins + Will: Green Ribbons

If amoxicillin for order a person does not have health insurance, they may be buying retin-a able to apply for Medicaid or state programs that help cheap acomplia in canada with the cost of birth control. As such, anyone at purchase viagra overnight delivery increased risk of developing high blood pressure should monitor their buy tetracycline without prescription blood pressure regularly. The study found that participants who smoked buy generic artane had lower rates of allergic CD but higher rates of augmentin sales irritant CD than nonsmokers. If necessary, a person may receive discount diclofenac oxygen through a mask or a tube inserted into the cheap alesse (ovral l) nose to help them breathe. Some beverages may contribute to clonidine for sale high blood pressure, and avoiding them may help people manage hypertension..

perkinswilll-green_ribbons.jpg

Check out Perkins and Will’s Heping Residential Development in Tianjin, China. Originally commissioned to design a residential tower as part of a larger masterplan, P&W was then asked to design 5 additional towers, a community building, and [of course] underground parking.

Now, the towers are okay. In terms of design, they’re very ‘Perkins and Will’ [so they’re nice], and the masterplan has that ‘towers in the park’ thing going on [it is in China, people] – resulting in an ‘alright’ product. Anyways, what I liked about the design was this community building bit – which slips underneath the ‘green ribbons’ of this public park space.

The residents of this development will benefit from the amenities of the three pavilion community building. One pavilion will house a fitness center with exercise areas, swimming pool, and spa facilities. The second will house educational and entertainment facilities for children, and the third pavilion will house a restaurant and coffee shop.

lg-118b.jpg

I recently worked on a masterplan in Beijing at the day-job, and something I found interesting [that we didn’t really investigate that much, actually] is the requirement for this ‘community building’ in a residential neighborhood. They’re really not just ‘community centers’, where kids play checkers after school with local retirees – they’re gyms and spas, like little resorts for these high end residential areas sprouting up all over China. What I’d be interested in knowing is if this is based on some tradition in China [as I suspect] that has simply been translated into something for the growing middle + upper classes – or if this is just a response to the increasing number of people with disposable income.That – and do you have to pay to use these facilities? Or do you just need to be a local resident? I bet the people in those walled-off slums can’t go swimming here…

Anyways – cool looking renderings, no?
.::more info at Perkins + Will

Posted: September 9th, 2008
at 9:30am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture,green arch,urban/master planning,towering pagodas

Comments: 2 comments



 

2 Responses to 'Perkins + Will: Green Ribbons'

Subscribe to comments with RSS or TrackBack to 'Perkins + Will: Green Ribbons'.

  1. I still believe that people shouldn’t be accepting jobs in China. Perkins and Will had the opportunity here to set an example and decline on the initial offer to participate in the masterplan.

    This, and other projects, will only serve to increase the dichotomy between rich poor in that country.

    No China

    9 Sep 08 at 2:43 pm

     

  2. The towers look too much like things that Perkins and Will, and others, have already done.

    Also – that rolling green there is never going to actually happen like that. No way.

    not impressed

    9 Sep 08 at 2:45 pm

     


 

Leave a Reply