Nearly 100 yarn and fibre suppliers will present their products during the three-day specialised trade event Yarn Expo Spring 2008, running 27 – 29 March 2008 at the China World Trade Centre, Beijing. The show is designed to meet the specialised needs of this upstream segment of the textile supply chain. Suppliers are coming from [...]

China Building 2007 Review Chinabuilding2007, covering a total exhibition floor space of 35,000m2, was joined by more than 400 building materials manufacturers from domestic and abroad including 100 foreign exhibitors and visited by more than 50.000 professional visitors, including: China, America, Korea, German, France, Spanish, Italy, Finland, Japan and India, etc. About US 5 [...]

The 12th International Exhibition on Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Manufacturing Equipment / The 12th International Exhibition on Furniture Accessories, Materials and Wood Products (also known as WMF 2008) will be staged at China International Exhibition Centre (CIEC), Beijing, P.R. China on March 7 – 10, 2008. The upcoming edition is the largest ever, in both [...]

China has 496 projects having 170,417 rooms in the Pipeline. It represents 66% of all guestrooms in the regional Pipeline. It’s also the largest Pipeline in the world, second only to the U.S. LE forecasts that 96,839 rooms, or 70% of China’s Pipeline, will open by year end ’08. Some will be large iconic type [...]

Lodging Econometrics (LE), the Global Authority for Hotel Real Estate, reported there are 962 hotels having 259,588 rooms in the Asia Pacific Pipeline at the end of 1Q ’07. Projects average 270 rooms in size.
Patrick Ford, President said, “Developers across the region are constructing new hotels at a torrid pace.” LE’s forecast for New [...]

In his design for a 52-story tower across the Hudson River from Manhattan, internationally acclaimed architect Rem Koolhaas wants to inspire social interaction, life and energy.
The building’s design — three rectangular slabs stacked perpendicular to each other — allows for a mix of uses: condominiums, a hotel, artist lofts and studios, gallery and retail space.
“I [...]

In Ayn Rand’s epochal novel The Fountainhead, the brilliant but uncompromising architect Howard Roark riles against “architectural monstrosities” that pander to crass, commercial tastes – and fights a lonely and wearisome battle to uphold “the triumphant role of creators”.
In Beijing today, in the run-up to next year’s Olympics, a similar battle centred around civic architecture [...]

Today, the crossroads of business and design are intersecting at an unprecedented rate, as leading organizations see design as a tool for innovation, competitiveness and growth. Graduate business programs — such as the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley — are integrating design into their curriculums, top business publications are [...]

The year 2007 looks as if it’s going to be more about circuses than bread.
While Lord Foster’s over-budget and unfashionably late Wembley Stadium reaches completion and Londoners begin to worry about paying for the 2012 Olympics, the costs of which are rising as fast as the city’s absurd property prices, Beijing will be completing its [...]

In the first decade of a century that the entire world agrees is Asia’s, this great continent — home to half the world’s peoples and resources — finds itself at a strategic crossroads. Will it be able to give rise to new architecture and institutions that foster stability, security, cooperation, and growth? Or will it [...]

Sustainable urban development was the subject for the Danish pavilion at this year’s 10th architecture biennale in Venice. Last week the pavilion was awarded the exhibition’s main prize, “The Golden Lion Award”.
“I am very proud and honoured to receive this prize that corresponds to The Golden Palm of Cannes and the acknowledgement that goes with [...]

Internationally acclaimed architect and educator Qingyun Ma, founder and design principal of the groundbreaking Shanghai architectural firm MADA s.p.a.m., has been named dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture, University President Steven B. Sample has announced. His appointment is effective January 1, 2007.
“We are extremely proud to announce the appointment of Qingyun [...]