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Chaoyang Park Plaza Beijing Buildings
Residential + Commercial Development in China – design by MAD architects
4 Dec 2017
Chaoyang Park Plaza Buildings by MAD
MAD Completes ?Chaoyang Park Plaza? Leaving the Impression of an Ink Landscape on Beijing?s Skyline
Location: Beijing, China
Architect: MAD
Dec. 5th, Beijing – MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, has completed the ?Chaoyang Park Plaza?, which includes the Armani apartment complex. Positioned on the southern edge of Beijing?s Chaoyang Park ? the largest remaining park in Beijing?s central business district area ? the 220,000 sqm complex includes 10 buildings which unfold as a classic Shanshui painting on an urban scale.
Photos: Hufton+Crow
Having a similar position and function as Central Park in Manhattan, but unlike the modern box-like buildings that only create a separation between the park and the city, ?Chaoyang Park Plaza? instead is an expansion of nature.

It is an extension of the park into the city, naturalizing the CBD?s strong artificial skyline, borrowing scenery from a distant landscape ? a classical approach to Chinese garden architecture, where nature and architecture blend into one another.

?In modern cities, architecture as an artificial creation is seen more as a symbol of capital, power or technological development; while nature exists independently. It is different from traditional Eastern cities w...