Sang City Resort
Guilin, PRC

Guilin is a popular tourist attraction in southern China, famous for its unique topological formations. The city receives approximately 12 million visitors every year. The municipal government has contracted with ‘The Sunshine Group’ of Beijing to create a specialized tourist attraction at the site of the original city. Approximately 70 acres of the historic village still remains, including an old fortress and the original wall of the city. Adjacent to this will be a historically themed 700-unit hotel/time share resort. Across this street will be a modern entertainment and shopping district which will feature local crafts, entertainment, and a full range of restaurants in a festive environment. The shopping area is bordered by 1.25 million square feet of luxury condominiums and has a separate full service tourist class hotel overlooking the mountains and lakes which surround the site. IDA collaborated with CITIARC in designing the overall layout and buildings.

Hangzhou Hillside
Hangzhou, PRC

This development consists of 250 independent and attached single family villas on a hillside in a scenic and bustling city outside of Shanghai. The villas are of a contemporary design and range from 350 – 650 m2 (3,750 – 7,000 square feet). All units were sold before construction was completed.

Dongping County Tourism Planning
Dongping, Shandong, China

Dongping County sets its goals to be a significant center for cultural tourism. In preparation for this, Dong Ping is considering development of a long term Master Plan for cultural development throughout the City.

Development of a universal theme for a vacation which will have universal appeal for a variety of families and individuals. Given the nature of the existing heritage mountains and  Baifo Mountain the theme should be centered and reflect a calmness which is prevalent in Buddhist culture-Qi. Qi can be obtained through enjoyment of experiences which provide spiritual comfort, physical comfort and exercising your mind. Existing and new opportunities have been grouped to provide convenient and comfortable options for creating a variety of personal vacation choices. Baifo Mt will define itself as Spiritual Retreat Destination for people to enjoy spiritual comfort and calm. The Theme Park will also have Buddhist, Confuscious and Taoist themed accommodations and restaurant venues.

Hangzhou Public Transit Company
Hangzhou, PRC

As land became increasingly expensive in Downtown Hangzhou the Public Transit Company did a competition for a master plan for office facilities for Public Transit and their key service providers/suppliers as well as exhibition space for new projects and a storage/logistics facility for their service department. The total program consists of 2,000,000sf. This project won the competition and is expected to go into construction by 2010.

China Central Place
Beijing, PRC

China Central Place, known as the Hua Mao Zhong Xin, opened in 2007. The 1,000,000 m2 mixed use complex is located in Beijing’s CBD. Designed by the international architecture firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), the master plan includes residential, retail, two hotels operated by Ritz Carlton and JW Marriott, and the offices of 70 industry-leading multinationals, including Deutsche Bank. The site is located on Chang’an Boulevard, Beijing’s primary east-west axis. The architecture of China Central Place was designed by KPF as a striking composition of diagonally faceted glass volumes whose appearance is softened at the lowest five stories by terra cotta screens. Within the site, the component buildings define two major public parks of over two hectares each. OPC built up a team to manage sales, planning, customer service and research to position and assure adherence to the master plan and market suitability. In addition, it set up the successful sales systems, and participated in bringing on board.

Sindosy
Busan, South Korea

Sindosy Design Group, a major architecture and engineering design firm in Busan, Korea, asked for WQB Architecture to assist in the development plan for a new mixed-use site on the seaside in the Hyundai area of Busan. WQB provided programming and site plan options for development of a retail plaza with a 1.2 million SF tower which included a 400-room 5-Star hotel and luxury condominiums. The design criterion was to provide a plan which allowed public use of the retail plaza while ensuring total privacy for the hotel guests and condominium towers. The retail plaza was positioned to provide a new energized streetscape across from a very popular public beach. WQB’s design met the environmentally sustainable requirements of the project by developing, among other features, a green roof on the retail base which provides a public park at the third floor level.

WQB Architecture assisted the Manhattan Dioceses of Catholic Church in rezoning and redevelopment of Blessed Sacrament Church in the center of New Rochelle which included a historic building and two abandoned schools on 4 acres of land. Designs were prepared for 400 new apartments to be developed by Kingdom Partners at the site, work included restoration of the existing historic stone church.