Tang Mixed-Use Commercial Development Design
Tianjin, China
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Science & Technology Parks As Urban Form Generators
In recent decades, science and technology parks have been changing the ways urban forms are generated. From world’s very first science park built in 1950’s, these parks have opened up and are integrated with surrounding urban fabric. As they incubate new ideas and new technological innovation inside these parks, these parks are also shaping the urban forms as well.
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Kevin Xiang
What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by experience and refined over a great deal of time and practice. Kevin is a talented architect with an unmatched passion for design. He sees poetry in a built environment and
Jax Lanzo
It’s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity’s highest callings. Jax is a sensitive architect as well as a skillful lighting
Guiyang Model High School Design Improvement Proposal
SAAN was asked by the owner’s representative to do a peer review and offer improvement suggestions to the competition-winning entry for a model high school in the special economic district of Guiyang, CHINA. The school is on a sloped site on the northern outskirts of the city. It is called a model school to indicate
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Fondren Science Building Renovation
To fit large state-of-the-art teaching laboratories into a Georgian-style landmark is a challenge. Fondren Science Building was built in 1950 and is the second most recognizable landmark on Southern Methodist University’s campus after the school’s main administrative building. On the 2nd and 3rd floors, we designed chemistry intro labs, chemistry advanced labs and biology teaching
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Airport City‘s Logical Structure and Spatial Form
G+SAAN designers have been studying this economic phenomenon and focused on the design of airports and their surrounding regions. We have been involved in the master plan of many major airports’ aviation-led development as well as for the entire region, including Beijing’s Daxing Airport, Xi-an International Airport, Wuhu Airport, Datong General Aviation Airport, and finally Ethiopia New Airport.
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Adaptive Reuse: A Powerful Way to Revitalize Urban District
Adaptive reuse refers to the process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for. It is also known as recycling and conversion. Adaptive reuse is an effective strategy for optimizing the operational and commercial performance of built assets. G+SAAN designers constantly seek out opportunities to use adaptive reuse as a tool to solve urban degeneration problems.
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Helping Texas Flood Relief Effort
G+SAAN’s Dallas office staff participated in a food-drive event for victims of flooding.
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Architectural Metaphorism
We like metaphors. We always like to explore the best ways to combine metaphors with other design treatments to a set of design problems. We experiment with ways to embed metaphors in our design to add meaning to the final design solution.
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