China's bustling city of Shanghai and its sprawling capital of Beijing are filled with historical structures and a dense population. Home to many architectural wonders, like the Great Wall, the National Stadium, and Shanghai Tower, China is booming with captivating structures. With a population of over 1.4 billion people, methods of architectural design and urban planning are needed to help the country's infrastructure prosper.
For this week's weekly job roundup, we feature three China-based architecture firms, their projects, and current employment opportunities.
MAD is seeking architects, designers, and digital media positions in Beijing.
MAD Architects is an international office of architects, designers, and creative thinkers dedicated to impacting how humans experience and understand the built space. Working at MAD will give you the opportunity to challenge yourself creatively and technically. As a member of our growing team, you will work cross-culturally with talented, like-minded individuals on unique global projects of varying typologies – from commercial to cultural, hospitality to residential. MAD is a global team of 130 staff across offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, New York, and Rome.
As a global studio of talented architects, designers, and creative thinkers dedicated to impacting the experience and understanding of the built space that surrounds us, developing visionary, fluid, and technologically advanced designs that embody a contemporary interpretation of the Eastern affinity for nature.
If you are a globally-minded individual who is a culture creator, can handle ambiguity, and has experience driving editorial campaigns and other digital content for international architecture and design media outlets, then MAD would like to hear from you.
Check out their current job opportunities here
aoe seeks architectural designers to join their team in Beijing.
aoe is a design practice based in the city of Beijing. We focus on design solutions rather than form driven approach. The design team is a passionate and dynamic creative engine, each designer from the international background of the design agency, has a wealth of experience and open field of international vision. In the context of a rapidly developing era, the Group is concerned about the ever-changing impact of the ever-changing science, technology and art on the urban environment and people's lifestyles, and fully respects the local culture and people's living habits and provides innovation in a new way of cross-border integration The design concept, to solve and improve the urban living environment, to create a vibrant human city space, pay attention to the project in-depth research based on rigorous rational logic as a means to innovative solutions for the purpose of providing excellent design for the owners and professional services.
Check out their current job opportunities here
Lemanarc is seeking an architect to join their team in Shanghai
Founded in Switzerland and active in both China and Europe, Lemanarc SA is an international architecture design office with operating branches in Lausanne, Zurich Switzerland and Shanghai, China. It specializes in a wide project field ranging from health care, educational and cultural facilities to traffic hubs and urban complex, etc. Lemanarc focuses on providing professional design solutions for tomorrow.
Our design elites come from all over the world, having the different cultural background. Through the intercultural examination, appreciation and dialogue, they can face up to the swallow that globalization bring the individual cultural identity. Avoiding copying simply the commercial fashion, refusing the repetitive endorsement, they look for diligently the design value of the project and their own value of life by original research, design and construction guidance. We call it Lemanarc to express our respect to the source of inspiration here, the interaction between international and regional cultural identity, as well as the harmonious coexistence between man and nature in our inexpressible dream.
Check out their current job opportunities here
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It also has a ton of repression!
Not present in the pictures is any sense of China's past or cultural heritage. Meanwhile, old homes, historic sites have been demolished at alarming rates, though it's hard to get accurate figures.
Economically, this may be a bubble:
Sadly, according to Li Wei, secretary to former Premier Zhu Rongji, most of these redevelopments are simply attempts to stimulate GDP. In an interview last year, Li Wei reported that in the last decade, around 900,000 historical villages have disappeared, an average of 250 villages a day—all in the name of redevelopment. New construction spurs economic growth by driving real estate prices, creating new jobs, and introducing new markets. More importantly, local officials profit from the new construction. In contrast, old buildings cost the local government for their maintenance.
https://www.bee-inc.com/2015/0...
If it is a bubble, when it pops the whole world will be shaken. "Bustling," I don't believe, is the word for this phenomenon.
China’s rapid development is such that, between 2011 and 2013, the country used 6.6 gigatons of cement, more than the entire amount used by the U.S. in a span of 100 years.
I'm also curious why Chinese architects aren't given these projects.
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