https://worldarchitecture.artinterp2.org/files/original/926752132408620dc4262c8d4832ba0e.jpg 9156d4778bb53e5c10dc072e2dcc93e9 https://worldarchitecture.artinterp2.org/files/original/785a259bec57f75ccfd05a4ab80af170.jpg 96a3d30ef77616615c032e16783f2c12 https://worldarchitecture.artinterp2.org/files/original/14438667da874d4a9df713404c7f9126.jpg 1f4518d2279c222f7eff789357515714 https://worldarchitecture.artinterp2.org/files/original/e2aa7120ff50e726ea93968a717b7104.jpg af3fdc86ece3ff5c5e9503afdf72cfb6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource midterm possibilities Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wangjing SOHO Language A language of the resource Beijing, China Type The nature or genre of the resource Commercial Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mursal Abdullah Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Design: 2009 Completed: 2014 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Zaha Hadid Patrik Schumacher Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. Contemporary, 21st Century China Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Latitude: 39.9892° N Longitude: 116.4746° E Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Steel Glass Reinforced Concrete Extent The size or duration of the resource. Total floor area: ~521,265 m² (5.61 million ft²) Three towers: 118 m, 127 m, and 200 m tall Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Neo-Futurism Parametricism Description An account of the resource <em>Wangjing SOHO Beijing is a three-tower office development by Zaha Hadid Architects that opened in 2014, standing 118 m, 127 m, and 200 m high and comprising a floor space of more than 500,000 m². The layout is irregular and fluid, with the piers distributed as if they were river-smoothed stones, and it is featured by continuous glass façade walls and white aluminium bands forming horizontal ribbons along their curved volumes. Ground-level entrances give access into shopping and office circulation space, vertical circulation by elevator and stair/escalators, and rooftop plazas linking the piers. Composed of reinforced concrete, steel, and glass, the building is focused on transparency and contemporariness, as light and darkness move across the day-long flowing façades. The work is an expression of metaphors of motion and nature radiating corporate splendour and innovative spirit within Beijing’s fast-expanding skyline and is a question of modern epigraph about sustainability and branding functions of iconic architecture.</em> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant N/A : currently not housed in museum collection Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Image 1: 489-1683x1080.jpg https://www.zaha-hadid.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/489-1683x1080.jpg Image 2: zha_wangjingsoho_f_01.jpg https://www.zaha-hadid.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/zha_wangjingsoho_f_01.jpg Image 3: zha_wangjingsoho_f_10.jpg https://www.zaha-hadid.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/zha_wangjingsoho_f_10.jpg Image 4: zha_wangjingsoho_f_28.jpg https://www.zaha-hadid.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/zha_wangjingsoho_f_28.jpg License A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource. Image 1: Creative Commons Image 2: Creative Commons Image 3: Creative Commons Image 4: Creative Commons Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. Zaha Hadid Architects. “Wangjing SOHO.” Zaha Hadid Architects. https://www.zaha-hadid.com. Jodidio, Philip. Zaha Hadid: Complete Works 1979–Today. Taschen, 2020 Schumacher, Patrik. The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Vol. II. Wiley, 2012 Abstract A summary of the resource. Wangjing SOHO exemplifies Zaha Hadid’s work of a parametric design language to a commercial commission that unifies retail, office space, and leisure within a single continuous architectural formation. As a SOHO China commission, it is an expression of corporate branding as much as of urban landmark creation that positions itself as a Beijing new business district focal point. These towers express the futuristic exuberance of the Hadid style while having useful commercial functions. midterm neatline assignment