Often you hear of trade delegations coming to China and experiencing the city. Usually its through the window of a bus or van whilst they run from airport to city and around the city going to meetings. So its refreshing to see Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi taking the time to go and travel on subways […]
Creating the right marketing material for the China market
Recently I have seen some brochures from international design companies for the Chinese market. Some were good and others were down right appalling. I thought I would give some insights into what makes your marketing material good or bad for the China market. Lets start with the bad Too smaller size font for Chinese text – […]
5 places I would like to design a project in the World (other than China)
I was thinking about the places I would like to design a project in the world if I had the chance. The places would not be anywhere I had designed a project before and limiting it to 5 places makes it harder to choose. I thought about it for a while and came up with […]
faslanyc: interview with Yu Kongjian ä¿žå”åš
Recently Yu Kongjian (ä¿žå”åš) was interviewed by faslanyc blog. Yu gives insight into his firm – Turenscape and his design influences and methodology that help him create the myriad of designs in China and the USA. Yu Kongjian is quickly gaining noteraity overseas for his designs and influence on modern landscape architecture in China. Turenscape has also been a finalist in […]
No Property Bubble in China – Developer
Recently Vincent Lo the chairman of Shui On Group (developer of Xintandi) came out and stated that there is no property bubble and bascially there isn’t enough land on which to build in China. I don’t know if he was taking about land in general, available green/brown fields or cities that have land that is […]