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GREEN WEEK AT BAU
GREEN DRINKS - ZED Factory
Presentation of two zero carbon buildings exhibited within the Urban Best Practice Area at Shanghai Expo.
http://www.greendrinks.org/Shanghai
15.04.2010\\
GIGA Talk - Naked Retreats
Presentation by Alessandro Bisagni of Naked Stables, new LEED Platinum project.
http://www.gigafoundation.org
17-18.04.2010 - 10:00-17:00
ECODESIGN FAIR @JJiashan Market
#37, Lane 550, Shaanxi South Road
www.ecodesignfair.cnPresentation by Alessandro Bisagni of Naked Stables, new LEED Platinumm project.
JI
24.10.2009
BAU takes part in the
350 International Day of Climate Action
http://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4036987266/in/set-72157622581163800/
15.10 -- 21.10.2009
SHANGHAI CREATIVE
INDUSTRY WEEK 2009
BAU will be one of the
Australian Pavilion exhibitors and will showcase its
Sustainable Urban
Planning Projects.
10.10.2009
“Chaos
and Planes: reality and Deleuze’s creative mechanisms for change”
A
talk by STEVE WHITFORD, senior lecturer from
24.07.2009
“Architecture of
digital age”
A talk by JAN BENDA, from
Allied Architects International
09.07.2009
“Sustainable schools”
A talk by TJERK REIJENGA,
Director, KOW
07.2009
The
29.06 – 01.07.2009
Shanghai New
International Expo center, Pudong
BAU, as one of the
exhibitors, will present its latest
projects.
30.06.2009 – 4pm
“Using Green
Networks to sustain Culture and the Environment”
A talk by JAMES BREARLEY
For more information,
tickets:
18.06.2009
GIGA Talk at BAU
“Greening your
contractor- The Challenges of Sustainable Build-out in
A talk by EMILIE RECORD,
Associate Creative Director, Li3
12.06.2009
“Eco-master
planning”
A talk by SIMON WILD,
from CUNDALL
21.05.2009
GIGA Talk at BAU
MARK COTTER,
Haworth
30.04.2009
GIGA Talk at BAU
ALEX MITCHELL, Senior
Environmental Consultant
ARUP
24.04.2009
Sustainable Urban
Development Forum,
JB speaker at the “Urban
Technologies” panel discussion
Launch of the ECEB
Network
25.03.2009
“The background and
future of the sustainable cities challenge”
A
talk by Professor Allan Rodger
Professor Emeritus
of the
Consultant and advisor on
sustainability
24.03.2009
GIGA Talk at BAU
“Sustainable
Poverty Alleviation through the Social
By CAROL CHYAU,
co-founder of SHOKAY and Ventures in
Development”
27.11.2008
GIGA vol.07 at BAU
Dennis ZHANG
Recipient of an Honorable Mention for the prestigious Holcim Awards for Sustainability in 2005
28.10.2008
"A journey of Discovery"
A LECTURE BY JOHN COURTNEY,
FRAIA, AICP- Urban planning advisor in China
16.10.2008
GIGA vol.06 at BAU
Lecture
by Arne McRadu,
senior designer and
landscape director, EDAW
EDAW's concept of DEEP
(Design Environment Economics Planning)
13.10.2008
A green evening in the
green room
Lectures on sustainable
design at Urbn Hotel
(by Paul
Pholeros, Raefer Wallis and James Brearley)
19.09.2008
GIGA vol.05 at BAU
FROG Design
Lecture
by Hartmut Essslinger
17.09.2008
Interview of James
Brearley by ITV
28.08.2008
GIGA vol.03 AT BAU
LECTURE BY JB
ESD for beginners and introduction to Green Roofs System.
www.giga-china.com
20.06.2008
“Laszlo Hudec in
LECTURE BY LUCA PONCELLINI
PhD Architect based in
12.06.2008,
“Contemporary
Architecture in
LECTURE BY JAN BENDA
Architect, vice-president of Allied Architects
International, living and working in
17.05.2008
LECTURE BY JB
AT
08.04.2008
ESD for beginners
LECTURE BY JB
Austcham Shanghai-Property
and Construction Industry Working Group
08.04.2008 to 18.04.2008
”SHANGHAI TANGO” by DAVID REID
Exhibition and lecture on the latest works by the
Australian artist
JOB APPLICANTS
Architects, Urban Designers, Landscapers + Interior
Designers
Please send your CV and/or portfolio (max 2MB) to
shirley@bau.com.au
Applicants should:
- Have excellent design skills or have good range of
experience.
- Speak some English
PROJECTS UPDATE
March 2008: Jindi Sanlin Sales
House 2 (282) opens.
December 2007: Zhujiajiao
Tai’An Residential and Commercial project (222) completed
December 2007: Aux Sales House
(275) opens
September 2007: Qingpu Supermarket
(247) opens
PROJECTS GO UNDER CONSTRUCTION
May 2007: Xinqiao Commercial
Street (268): Stage 1 almost finished, stage 2, extension, to start
March 2008: Suzhou School (312)
goes under construction
INVITED COMPETITION WINS
11.04.20008: BAU win competition
for Suzhou canal side Commercial complex (330)
05.03.2008: BAU win competition
for Jiangyin Wuxing multi-function complex: shopping mall + hotel + offices +
housing complex (321)
27.03.2008
PUBLIC LECTURE AT BAU BY JAMES BREARLEY
15.02.2008
ECOEDGE2 MELBOURNE
JB and Fang Qun speak at EcoEdge
conference followed by lectures at Victorian Department of major projects and
Perth City Planning Department.
Their lecture: "Networks Cities: Sustaining culture,
economics and the environment ".
www.cityedge.org.au
21.01.2008
TALK BY JB AT THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDANT
CLUB,SHANGHAI
Review on Urbanism in
China
17.01.2008
LECTURE BY JIM SINATRA
“Art and Landscape Retrospective”
(Collaborated with BAU on several projects in Australia
and in China).
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
15.11. 2007- 21.11.2007
SHANGHAI CREATIVE WEEK INDUSTRY (SCIC)
BAU is one of
18.11.2007
TALK BY JAMES BREARLEY
14.11.2007
LECTURE BY MARIUS BALLIEUX
“Nature: foundation of the built-up environment; Organic
architecture: a natural response.”
08.09.2007 PROJECTS UPDATE
WON INVITED COMPETITIONS
- Greeland Baoshan: a
residential, office and commercial project in
-
- Qingpu car park / commercial building: 8000 m² for 350
parking spaces and retail shops.
- Vanke Sales House: a standardized sales house to be used
throughout
PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
- Xinqiao Commercial Street
- AUX Sales House
- Hangzhou Sports Center
- Jindi Sanlin Sales House 2
- Jindi Greenland Sports club
- Zhujiajiao Tai’An Residential + Commercial: to be
completed shortly
NEW PROJECTS AT DESIGN STAGE
- Suzhou School: teaching facilities for 1800 students +
dormitories for 900.
-
31.08.2007
LECTURE BY TJERK REIJINGA
"Space Urbanism"
30.08.2007
PECAH KUCHA 7 - LECTURE BY JAMES BREARLEY
10.08.2007
LECTURE BY TJERK REIJENGA
Tjerk Reijenga talks about
his background, his work within the field of sustainable building and housing,
and more especially about two projects in China for Modern
Group in
19.06.2007
LECTURE BY MAHIEU BORYSEVICZ
"From Billboards to
Billboards: LEARNING FROM
06.2007
PROJECTS OPENING THIS
MONTH
Wuhan Housing stage 2
JINDI Yunhu Housing
31.05.2007
Lecture by Zhang Bin “Start from the Campus”
Zhang Bin, principal of
Atelier Z+,
17.05.2007
BAU
supports Roots&Shoots
BAU team up with the Jane
Goodall Institute and, after the screening of Al Gore’s
“Inconvenient Truth”, has everybody calculate their carbon
footprint then buy trees to be planted in Inner Mongolia! BAU initiated the
bidding with the purchase of 100 trees!
04.2007
BAU
opens Interior Design Department
Composed of five interior
designers including an Italian and a Korean trained in the
27.04.2007
LECTURE
BY David TRUBRIDGE (organized by NUZI)
New-Zealand furniture
designer, David Trubridge talks about sustainability.
Event organized by NUZI
and hosted by BAU.
21.04.2007
JB
gives lecture “Another inconvenient Truth -
Delegation of 400 Swedish
architects.
18.04.2007
JB
gives lecture “Another inconvenient Truth -
Archiprix event at
12.04.2007.
Lecture
by Stefan Beck
Stefan Beck, from
Baumschlager- Eberle, an Austrian architecture company, talks about “Low
Energy Housing” and their recent works.
30.03.2007
JB
gives lecture “Another inconvenient Truth -
FAR/ Design week - Public
Space Seminar (www.
sinocities.net)
01.2007
Urban
BAU gets listed by Urban
China as one of ten renowned international Urban Design Offices in
30.01.2007
Lecture
by James Weirick
Professor James Weirick,
Director of Master of Urban Development and Design at the University of New
South Wales , UNSW, Sydney, talks about “Chicago Architects in China between 1911 and 1927”.
Projects
opened in 2006:
01.2006:
02.06: Stage 1 of Wuxi Housing opens
10.06: Yunhu sports and
activities center opens．
16.12.2006
Opening
of “Networks cities” Exhibition
The exhibition presents
eight of BAU’s
The exhibition also
previews essays by Pr. Peter Rowe and Pr. Kim Dovey from the upcoming book
“Network Cities”.
12.2006
VicArchitect
article
“Postcard from
11.2006
James
Brearley becomes an Adjunct Professor of
09.14.2006
STRATEGIES
FOR INCLUSIVE PUBLIC SPACE
A talk by James Brearley
09.2006
Urban
Design Competition
BAU were awarded first
place for Yongchuan Urban Design competition, a 13,89 km2 urban design project .
08.08.2006
BAU
new office!
BAU moves to a small
factory building, with a café and events venue on the top floor and a rooftop
terrace.
03.30.2006
Lecture
by Meror Krayenyoff
One of the world leading
experts on modern rammed earth construction presents his work, including
progress on a Chinese project with A00 Architects.
02-2006
Urban
Design Competition
BAU were awarded first
place for Jiang Yin CBD urban design Competition.
25.01.2006
Urban
Design Competition
BAU were awarded first
place for Shanghai Yangjing urban design competition, a district centre for a
population of 200.000.
01.01.2006
The converted traffic school park and pavilions
open to the public.
Shanghai Sculpture
Space
11.2005 Stage 1 of the factory conversion opens
to the public.
Lecture by Ho Liang
08.12.2005 Ho Liang architects www.hla.be Chinese / Belgian
architect Ho Liang lectures on recent projects.
Exhibition, FAR 8
08.12.2005 - 7.1.2006 Exhibition of competition
organized by FAR Gallery for European Architecture. www.far-shanghai.net
Programmed bridge opens
07.2005 The concrete pedestrian bridge-building
designed for Ningbo Wanda opens.
Artist collaboration
07.2005 The
Klein Bottle completed
06.2005 The sales house for Fudi Wuxi finishes
construction.
BAU projects go under
construction in late 2005
Jindi Housing in Yun Hu, Zhu Zia
Jiao,
Public housing (re-settlement housing)
in Tai An, Zhu Zia Jiao,
Factory + office building for Hongxuen, Jinqiao,
2005.06.23 Lecture
by Jacques Ferrier
For more detail please click: EVENTS
2005.06.09 Lecture
by Peter McNeil
Peter McNeil, a senior lecturer from University
of New South Wales will present his recent study. The topic is called "The
Art and Science of Walking: Navigating the Enlightenment City".
2005.06.07 ESD Platform
Meeting
BAU has launched an ESD platform. Monthly
meetings are planned to help establish a network of consultants including civil
engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, transport engineers, landscape
architects, urban designers, architects, environmental engineers etc. Contact
Sherry Poon at BAU on (21) 64313335.
For more details click :
AGENDA
2005.05.30
BAU Lecture
Lecture by Peter Kohane
a senior lecturer in architecture from
Topic: A place for art: Louis Kahn and
the twentieth century museum
2005.04.22
Lecture by Pedro Pablo Arroyo Alba from
CA-group.
2005.04.18
AOO lectures
at BAU "Bulding Stories"
A00 will present their latest works on
21 April.
2005.03.29
BAU Lecture: Experiment
in Program, Form, and Place
James Brearly will give a lecture
regarding BAU lastest projects in
ESD PLATFORM
BAU have launched an ESD platform.
Monthly meetings are planned to help establish a network of consultants
including civil engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, transport engineers,
landscape architects, urban designers, architects, environmental engineers etc.
Contact Sherry Poon at BAU on (21) 64313335.
NEW ASSOCIATES
Huang Fan and Huang Lei have been made
associates of BAU International. Both have been with BAU since the China office
opened in 2001.
ARTIST COLLABORATION
Melbourne Artist Stephen Bram has
designed a sales pavilion with BAU for Wanda in Ningbo. The design is generated
through a process based on perspectival geometry. Construction begins April
2005.
QUARRY RESORT
BAU have won the contract to design a
resort hotel within a white clay quarry in Suzhou’s
new satellite town.
WUSHI HOUSING COMMENCES CONSTRUCTION
Construction has commenced on the Fudi Wushi Hui Shan housing project.
This project is 1.1sqkm of medium-high density housing. 70% of stage one
housing is designed by BAU. (see projects)
KLEIN BOTTLE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The sales pavilion for the Wushi project has commenced construction. The design is
based on a Klein Bottle, an object with one continuous skin which turns inside
out and passes through itself. (see projects).
LIGHT + SHADE PAVILION COMPLETED
The Jin Di Sales pavilion, San Lin,
Pudong, opened in February 2005.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
The Jin Qiao Sports + Leisure centre
has been published in T+A Time Architecture magazine 2005 edition 1; and DI
magazine no114 2004 -10. It is also featured in Peter Rowe’s new book on
Shanghai. He describes the conceptual framework as City of continuous program.
The Jin Di Sales pavilion has been
published in DI magazine no116 2005-02-25.
LANDSCAPE WORKS RESUMED
Work has resumed on Hongqiao Park, the
conversion of a gated children’s traffic park into an accessible city
park. Also re-commencing is the design of 5km park network and 2.5km commercial
labyrinth in BAU’s Chengdu network city.
INNAUGURAL BAU AWARDS
The inaugural BAU awards and the BAU
Cup were recently held at a Ching Pu
games hotel.
The mobius
tower, corner of Beijing Lu + Jiao Zhou Lu, was completed in the last week of
March 2005.
2004.09.03
OFFICE NEWS... this new
website is just launched today! After moving to the new location almost a year
ago and completing extensive renovations, the Shanghai office has now grown to
over 40 people.
TOWERS... as the scaffolding comes down
from the
RESIDENTIAL AND INTERIORS... also
currently in construction and quickly approaching completion are the designs
for the Power station village in Ninghai; and the Jindi Sanlin sales pavilion
and Sojourn Spa, both in Shanghai. The office is currently working on a
large-scale residential project in
URBAN AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN... after
winning the recent urban design competition for Chengdu East and coming second
in Chengdu West, BAU has been commissioned to further develop elements of the
Eastern masterplan, such as the innovative
`Labyrinth` commercial district and two large scale urban parks (in association
with Sinatra Murphy Landscape Design). BAU has also been asked to investigate
the feasibility of the 400m tall landmark tower for the new district. In