Ben Wood is pretty popular here in Shanghai - his XinTianDi "restoration" project* proved to local gov and developers that there is, in fact, some value in historic structures and human/pedestrian-scale urbanism.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xintiandi
*the marketing literature calls it a renovation, but in reality most of the historic buildings were torn down and rebuilt - out of necessity, i imagine.
i think wood + zapata did the original masterplan, wood designed the retail & entertainment blocks, and yeah a few surrounding bldgs were by other architects (these for instance, by KPF)....
anyway, "xintiandi" now refers to a pretty large district, not just the original project....
here's the xintiandi page on wood's site.... really a fascinating project.
anyway, I don't know much about his practice here. I interviewed w/ his office back in march 2010, but took another job offer. It seemed like a cool place to work.
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is wood+zapata closed?
hopefully not.
oh, that would be sad, one of my all time favorites
Their website doesn't work and their SoHo office is missing. So... probably?
Carlos Zapata seems to be running his own studio up the street at 520 Broadway.
i think that they split up years ago...
Is the following the right website? They did split and I think one of them ( wood?) is working for some good chinese projects.
www.wood-zapata.com
Wood operates from XinTianDi in Shanghai. Was very surprised to see his office there.
Check out zapatas website in NYC. Cz-studio.com. Some good work still going on.
Ben Wood: http://www.studioshanghai.com/
Carlos Zapata: http://www.cz-studio.com/index.php
Thanks, evanc.
Ben Wood is pretty popular here in Shanghai - his XinTianDi "restoration" project* proved to local gov and developers that there is, in fact, some value in historic structures and human/pedestrian-scale urbanism.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xintiandi
*the marketing literature calls it a renovation, but in reality most of the historic buildings were torn down and rebuilt - out of necessity, i imagine.
I think many architects contributes to xintiandi or just him?
i think wood + zapata did the original masterplan, wood designed the retail & entertainment blocks, and yeah a few surrounding bldgs were by other architects (these for instance, by KPF)....
anyway, "xintiandi" now refers to a pretty large district, not just the original project....
here's the xintiandi page on wood's site.... really a fascinating project.
anyway, I don't know much about his practice here. I interviewed w/ his office back in march 2010, but took another job offer. It seemed like a cool place to work.
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