JIAN WAI SOHO

摘要

Tokyo architect Riken Yamamoto is no stranger to large-scale master plans. In Japan, Yamamoto is an expert at creating cam-puses from scratch and turning tired urban districts into cutting-edge housing blocks. But the 7.5-million-square-foot Beijing Jian Wai SOHO project is by far the biggest of the big projects to come across Yamamoto's drawing board to date. The result of an international design competition held in 2000, the first stage of the seven-phase development, which includes a mixture of apartment towers and low-scale commercial space, was completed in December 2003.