Tianjin Binhai CBD Master Plan

Chihyi Kuo & Song Qiu

Architects SOM Location Tianjin, China Client Tianjin Municipal People’s Government Program City master plan Building Site 2,500 hectares Area 9.000.000 m²

Project Description

The Tianjin New Binhai Master Plan calls for the redevelopment of a coastal industrial zone and former port into a new center of commerce. The mixed-use district will feature high-rise buildings, historic neighborhoods, and open spaces, along with a comprehensive road and rail system. Source: www.som.com

Die Groszstadt, Otto Wagner

The study of 1911 was Wagner’s response to a competition for the general regulation of Vienna. It reveals a concept of urban growth that would place no limits on the size of cities but would provide an orderly method of expansion through successive additions of districts of 100,000 to 150,000 persons. These were to be located within a great spiderweb system of ring and radial boulevards extending outward from the urban core.

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DIE GROSZSTADT PLAN VIENNA_OTTO WAGNER

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Wagner, embraced the new modern city, and believed it should represent movement or attached in picturesque ways, but inserted into the urban fabric. In this way, buildings, but the street itself, which can be seen as vast cuts through the urban fabric.

Source: Otto Wagner, The Development Of A Great City

Tribune Tower, Howells & Hood

Built in 1925, the neo-Gothic Tribune Tower was designed by New York architects Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells, who won a contest held by Tribune co-publishers Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Patterson to create the newspaper’s new HQ.

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More than 260 architects from 23 countries responded with designs in a dizzying range of the pre-war period, but several other entries resonated with later generations. Eliel Saari1990s. More radical proposals were submitted by architects such as Walter Gropius, Adolf Loos, Bruno Taut and Max Taut.

Source: Leo Shaw, How the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition changed architecture forever

Lever House, SOM

Midtown Manhattan’s Lever House marked a watershed in U.S. architecture when completed in 1952. Located on the west side of Park Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets, the coroporate headquarters, with its facade made of blue-green

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The structure consists of two intersecting masses, balanced in their proportions but contrasting in shape. A two-story horizontal block containing an open court occupies the court create a large open plaza allowing entrances to the lobby to be located away from

Source: SOM, Lever House

Morphology

Plan transformation study from the Lever House by SOM into a block of Otto Wagners Grosztadt Plan.

Section transformation study from the Lever House by SOM into the Chicago Tribune Tower.

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Geometrical studies based on the section- and plan transformations of selected precedents.