The images here are from TooManyTribbles.
Real estate developer SOHO’s properties are sprouting up all over Beijing. Above is the newly opened and still half-empty SOHO Shangdu (尚都) in Beijing’s CBD area. The building was designed by Australian architect Peter Davidson of Lab architecture studio.
This is what SOHO’s website says about the design:
The retail space is conceived as a dynamic contemporary interior, a geode with a crystalline galleria over five levels. It contains a programmed bridge to connect the two sides of the development, which exist on separate blocks. The interior galleria spaces will facilitate a range of events from fashion parades to concerts and can be altered to both ‘outdoor’ and ‘indoor’ modes, depending on the extreme fluctuations of Beijing’s weather.
Below is another image of the Bird’s Nest, the Olympic stadium designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron
