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Karesansui House
Plate Graphics House
Trimmed Circle House
Alan-Voo House
ST House
M&L House
Selby Avenue House
ADU No. 1
No Mass House
CLT House
Micro-Footprint House
OFFICE
9000 Wilshire
5600 West Adams
Wellness Center
Sotoak Pavilion
3 Vessels
Endeavor
Media Office Block
Green Brick Prism
Orange Square
HOTEL
La Brea Hotel
Alsace Hotel
6AM Hotel
Qualia Hotel
HOUSING
HL23
902 Davie
2 Burrard Place
130 West Broadway
320 La Cienega
Shift Stack Housing
Permanent Shadow
Porsche Design Tower
Dos Rios Housing
Slavyanka City
Kite City
Torre del Golf
NEU Development
Aomori
INSTITUTIONAL
Wildwood School
MOCA
Chapel in the Forest
Sori Yanagi Museum
Hameetman Center
CUHK Student Center
Maribor Museum
Carlow Art Center
Arlington Museum of Art
COMMERCIAL
Romaine Arches
Sycamore Arches
Commissary
Twentieth
MUFG Nagoya
MUFG Ginza
MUFG Umeda
Ningbo Bar Tower
l.a. Eyeworks
Casey Kaplan Gallery
Adidas Outlet Store
Thinkpark
TRANSPORTATION
Keelung Terminal
Peach Airlines
Houston Central Station
BOOK
Annotated Notebooks
ONICS
MASS X
OSU Baumer Lectures
Gyroscopic Horizons
Interrupted Projections
FURNITURE
Shift_Leg Table
EXHIBITION
T-Space
The Artless Drawing
Vert-Eco
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Gallery MA_IP
Fluoroscape
Close - Up
Chess & Go
MEDIA
Monorad
Currency Design
ARCHIVE
Cor-Tex 1982-98
NMDA 1998-
Site Design: INNER IDEAL
©2024 NMDA_LA
Year of the Dragon
Kite City / 2010
Weifang, China
Site: Central Weifang on the Bailang River
Program: Mixed - Use: Housing, Office, & Commcercial
Size: 300,000 Square Meters
Status: Unbuilt
Program: Mixed - Use: Housing, Office, & Commcercial
Size: 300,000 Square Meters
Status: Unbuilt
Weifang
is a special city in China.
Not only is it well known for the history of its handicrafts such as
paper–cutting and New Year’s paintings, it is the world’s most important city
for kite flying and the history of kites. For more than 2,000 years, the people
of Weifang have enjoyed the exhilaration of seeing these colorful objects
flying in the brisk winds of the Shandong
region in Northern China. For this project,
located on the Bailang
River in the heart of
Weifang, we have been inspired by a poem by Zheng Banqiao in which he described kites as “Paper flowers that
fly over the sky like snow.” Indeed, the color and lightness of the kite, it
buoyant qualities, and its formal qualities have further inspired our work.
Kite City is a 300,000 square meter mixed-used development consisting of housing and commercial in a series of tower blocks, with a 150 meter tall mixed-use tower that anchors the southwest corner of the site. The organization of the massing responds to the client’s brief to make an iconic tower on the park with a supporting world of housing and shopping around it.
LANDSCAPE INFLUENCES
The Bailang river has become over the last few years a vital place for the interaction of people and a true public
Kite City is a 300,000 square meter mixed-used development consisting of housing and commercial in a series of tower blocks, with a 150 meter tall mixed-use tower that anchors the southwest corner of the site. The organization of the massing responds to the client’s brief to make an iconic tower on the park with a supporting world of housing and shopping around it.
LANDSCAPE INFLUENCES
The Bailang river has become over the last few years a vital place for the interaction of people and a true public
space enhancement for Wiefang. We see
our project along the river as furthering this public cause through an open,
networked organization that allows both pedestrian and vehicular flows across
the site. Beyond, the river and mountains are reflected in the light blues and
greens of the buildings, lending a fresh air to the site, a place that is
welcoming and open, and above all, sustainable.
URBANISM
The arrangement of the buildings is based on the traditional north-south orientation of units (as required per the brief). Each residential building has floor through apartments with only four units per floor. With strategic planning, we have deployed a large amount of mass on the site in a way that respects light, views, and social space.
Project Team: Neil Denari, Joe Willendra, Jeff Chinn
URBANISM
The arrangement of the buildings is based on the traditional north-south orientation of units (as required per the brief). Each residential building has floor through apartments with only four units per floor. With strategic planning, we have deployed a large amount of mass on the site in a way that respects light, views, and social space.
Project Team: Neil Denari, Joe Willendra, Jeff Chinn
HOUSE
Karasansui House
Plate Graphics House
Trimmed Circle House
Alan-Voo House
ST House
M&L House
Selby Avenue House
ADU No. 1
No Mass House
CLT House
Micro-Footprint House
OFFICE
9000 Wilshire
5600 West Adams Wellness Center
Sotoak Pavilion
3 Vessels
Endeavor
Media Office Block
Green Brick Prism
Orange Square
HOTEL
La Brea Hotel
Alsace Hotel
6AM Hotel
Qualia Hotel
HOUSING
HL23
902 Davie
2 Burrard Place
130 West Broadway Porsche Design Tower Western Green Permanent Shadow
320 La Cienega
Dos Rios Housing Slavyanka City
Kite City
Torre del Golf
NEU DevelopmentAomori
INSTITUTIONAL
Wildwood School
MOCA
Chapel in the Forest
Sori Yanagi Museum Hameetman Center
CUHK Student Center Maribor Museum
Carlow Art Center Arlington Museum of Art
COMMERCIAL
Sycamore Arches Twentieth
Commissary
MUFG Nagoya
MUFG Ginza
MUFG Umeda
Ningbo Bar Tower
l.a. Eyeworks
Casey Kaplan Gallery Adidas Outlet Store Thinkpark
TRANSPORTATION
Keelung Terminal
Peach Airlines
Houston Central Station
BOOK
Annotated Notebooks ONICS
Mass X
OSU Baumer Lectures Gyroscopic Horizons Interrupted Projections
FURNITURE
Shift_Leg Table
EXHIBITION
T-Space
TROIA
Gallery MA_IP Fluoroscape
Close - Up
Chess & Go
MEDIA
Monorad
Currency Design
ARCHIVE
Cor-Tex 1982 - 98 NMDA 1998 -
© 2023 Neil M. Denari Architects