Mirrored Water Drops

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Mirrored Water Drops
Design Museum in Shenzhen


Sanded and polished, he stands there, yes - almost like peeled from the egg. While in the past week in the Chinese special economic zone, the opening of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture: saw (short SZHK Biennial) for excitement, has landed in the middle of the planned city of Shenzhen in the Nanshan District, a striking new building. The OCT Design Museum, designed by Studio Pei-Zhu from Beijing is, as an urban accent at the entrance of the harbor area. During the opening days of the Biennale, there was the first building tours with architects through the nearly completed museum silver egg - 2012, the museum should be opened.

The new building very reminiscent in shape to another museum of the architect. For the Chinese avant-garde artist Yue Minjun is planning the Studio Pei-Zhu, southwest China's Sichuan province also has a spherical drop of water: the Art Museum of Yue Minjun . The reflective hull of the SEP Design Museum is composed façade of metal panels; triangular window openings to break the smooth surface of the museum shell and make the atrium for a pretty light show in the first design museum in the People's Republic of China, which is built for good reason in Shenzhen. In November 2008, the city plan was knighted by the UNESCO "City of Design", more than 6,000 design companies are located here. Incidentally, the SZHK Biennale runs until 18 February 2012.

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