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You seriously have to give it to architects in Shanghai for coming up with something that catches your eye. It may not work all the time, but it will be at least different from anything else you have seen before.
Photo from Shanghaiist's Chris Billman.
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 The 3rd annual Shanghai International Creative Industry Week is going on through Wednesday the 21st at the 1933
We went to opening night last Thursday and were able to get a sneak peek into the 1933 building mentioned a few posts back, where some of the exhibitions were still being touched up at the last minute. One of the purposes of the SICIW is to bring together art and design entities from all over the world into one place, perhaps fomenting future collaboration and connection. From Shanghai Daily:
The third creative industry week, themed "Creativity & Brand," will wrap up on Wednesday. It covers a display area of 35,000 square meters with the participation of more than 500 creative corporations from 30-plus countries and regions and is expected to attract more than 200,000 visitors, making it the largest in the event's history.
Four exhibition sections such as brand exhibition showing off creative products from enterprises from both home and abroad and six festivals are included in the creative industry week's plans for the first time.
Since we only went on the first night, we only caught a glimpse of some of the work from the various festivals. For this poor design-challenged Shanghaiist, the SICIW was really a chance for us to check out the new converted abattoir in the Hong Kou district. What's an abattoir, you ask? Well, apparently it's the term the real estate folks use in place of "slaughter house" to describe the artsy new complex. Even the lexicon is upscaled at this place.
According to those same real estate folks, the building will house a host of design offices and boutiques, a new David Laris restaurant, and potentially another South Beauty. 1933 is also marketing itself as a learning destination, requiring tenants to host workshops or exhibits for those of us willing to trek out to Hongkou for some personal development.
Photo by meckleychina
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The 74 year old slaughterhouse that stands on 10 Shajing Road (虹口区沙泾路10号) in Hongkou has been remade as 1933, a lifestyle and design center. Some of the brains behind this new development include Paul Liu, formerly of Three on the Bund, and David Laris, owner of his eponymous restaurant also at Three. Has any Shanghaiist been there yet?
Photo from Jake in Shanghai
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 If you thought you've had enough of crazy architectural styles in Shanghai, wait till you see this piano house in Huainan, Anhui. Inside the transparent violin is the staircase to the house upstairs. Apparently, the building has been built by the local government to draw interest to the newly developed area, but from what we can see, it almost looks like it was built in the *sshole of nowhere.
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Jakob Montrasio points us to a most unbelievable ranking of the world's top 25 cities with skyscrapers published by the German magazine Spiegel:
1: Hongkong, China. 7422 skyscrapers.
2: New York City, USA. 5445 skyscrapers.
3: Singapore 3503 skyscrapers. 4 million people.
4: São Paulo, Brazil. 3012 skyscrapers. 10 million people.
5: Seoul, Korea. 2831 skyscrapers.
6: Istanbul, Turkey. 2093 skyscrapers. Over 10 million people.
7: Tokyo, Japan. 2074 skyscrapers. 12 million people.
8: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1925 skyscrapers. 6 million people.
9: Toronto, Canada. 1612 skyscrapers.
10: Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1438 skyscrapers.
11: London, UK. 1295 skyscrapers.
12: Chicago, USA. 1040 skyscrapers.
13: Sydney, Australia. 804 skyscrapers.
14: Osaka, Japan. 740 skyscrapers.
15: Mexico City, Mexico. 722 skyscrapers.
16: Bangkok, Thailand. 710 skyscrapers.
17: Caracas, Venezuela. 670 skyscrapers. 5.1 million people.
18: Madrid, Spain. 651 skyscrapers. 3 million people.
19: Milan, Italy. 646 skyscrapers. 4 million people.
20: Curitiba, Brazil. No information how many skyscrapers. 1.7 million people?
21: SHANGHAI! CHINA! 549 skyscrapers! And over 300 more under construction at the moment!
22: Mumbai, India (Maharashtra). 529 skyscrapers. 11 million people.
23: Vancouver, Canada. 520 skyscrapers.
24: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 517 skyscrapers.
25: Moscow, Russia. 456 skyscrapers.
Apparently, the Spiegel got its information from such reliable source of information as Emporis, Wikipedia and Yahoo, but seriously, Shanghai has just 549 skyscrapers?! That was probably 15 years ago! The one-year old NBC Today report featured above tells us that Shanghai has at least 4000 skyscrapers ("double the 2,000 in NYC" they add - some serious discrepancy in the definition of skyscrapers here!) and is planning to add another 1000 by the end of the decade. We understand the Spiegel has a Shanghai correspondent, but maybe the editors just never bothered to check the facts with him/her?
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The Shanghai Daily and local media report that a historic slaughterhouse located at 10 Shajing Rd in Shanghai's Hongkou district is set to open in July as a luxury shopping shopping center featuring "house jewelry and car shops". The old slaughterhouse, Read More...
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