UNStudio Asia completes yacht-inspired Keppel Cove Marina & Clubhouse in Zhongshan

2018-07-11T15:16:00-04:00

Located along the banks of the Xi River in Zhongshan in Guangdong, the Keppel Cove Marina & Clubhouse is UNStudio Asia's latest completed project. The 50,000 square-meter masterplan comprises a marina with direct access to the Xi River, a service building, high-end residential villas and supporting infrastructure, including a bridge, roads, and surrounding external dykes. The project is also the first and only marina with a private port of immigration in all of China.

Photo: Tom Roe.

Featuring a facade made from bronze-colored aluminum panels, the Clubhouse was designed to resemble a yacht, UNStudio describes, that offers visitors a relaxing space and luxurious amenities for business or leisure. The shape of the building and its surrounding landscape were “derived and developed based on the main access routes to the clubhouse, in combination with the most attractive view lines. In a smooth transition, spaces radiate outwards in an organic fan shape, away...

thyssenkrupp opens first rope-less, high-speed elevator test tower in China

2018-03-27T15:11:00-04:00

German elevator specialists thyssenkrupp just inaugurated a new plant and test tower in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, China, only months after opening another high-tech test tower near the company's headquarters in Rottweil.

At a height of 248 meters (or 31 floors above ground), the Zhongshan test tower even slightly surpasses the (not so) old structure in Germany. Both facilities feature the company's new rope-less elevator system, MULTI, which can go up, down and also sideways.

Image: thyssenkrupp Elevator AG.

The 13-shaft tower is in for some heavy-duty testing: An Active Mass Damper system can both reduce the extent of tower swing caused by changes in weather conditions, and also simulate extreme seismic and meteorological conditions, like earthquakes and typhoons.

It comes as no surprise that China is thyssenkrupp's largest market in Asia: The company had sales of 17.8 percent in China in the last financial year.

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UNStudio Asia completes yacht-inspired Keppel Cove Marina & Clubhouse in Zhongshan

thyssenkrupp opens first rope-less, high-speed elevator test tower in China