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Chinese Architect Ma Yansong Brings Green Futurism to Europe
After sweeping architectural contests in Rome and Paris, Ma was invited to outline a master plan for a 200,000-square-meter commercial and retail project in Amsterdam's Zuidas business district. He unveiled architectural drawings for structures that resemble a cluster of crater-tipped mountains. Echoing Taoist paintings of peaks and pagodas, its volcano-shaped towers will be linked with a meandering series of courtyards, waterways, and pavilions that organically unite the complex. (Caption: Spiegel, image: Ma Yansong/MAD)
Over the last decade, avant-garde European architects have helped reshape Beijing's skyline. [...] But now, a Chinese architect is reversing the trend. Rising star Ma Yansong has won a string of European architectural contests that will bring his experimental designs, which meld cutting-edge technology with an animist's awe of nature, to capitals on the Continent.
— spiegel.de
Ma Yansong has been on Archinect's radar for quite some time—click here to read our 2006 UpStarts interview with him and his Beijing-based firm MAD office.
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