How can industrial buildings with long histories and spatial uniqueness be integrated into urban life more actively? How can newly built industrial plots with large-scale industrial and commercial buildings be situated and integrated into urban planning and design? This book features nearly 40 cases of redevelopment and industrial design by the German architectural firm gmp Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen (mainland China), and some German cities. These designs are for commercial and industrial buildings, cultural and convention centres, exhibition halls and data centres. They apply gmp's design concept to industrial buildings within the context of the metropolis, work that is characterised by conciseness, diversity, unity, uniqueness, and orderliness. This book provides examples of, and references to, urban industrial building areas and industrial architecture design, and can be used as a reference by teachers and students of urban planning studies, architectural history, architectural heritage conservation, and architectural design. Text in English and Chinese.

"The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center (SOSC) has emerged as a model project of German architecture and engineering skill" is the verdict of the renowned architecture journalist Dirk Meyhoefer in his architectural critique of the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. Inaugurated in 2011 on the occasion of the FINA World Swimming Championships, the site brings together the SOSC swimming facilities, a multipurpose venue, and a press centre, whose forms and materials harmonise as an ensemble. From an urban development perspective, its park grounds merge with their surroundings. In this volume, the SOSC is presented by the responsible architects and illuminated by means of images and plans. Dirk Meyhoefer comments on the ensemble in an extensive accompanying critique. Text in English and German.

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Was ist "vietnamesische Baukultur"? Eine Frage, die nicht leicht zu beantworten ist in einem Land, das bis 1976 geteilt war und dessen Architektur durch die Kolonialmachte Frankreich und Japan gepragt wurde. gmp gibt mit dem Neubau der Vietnamesischen Nationalversammlung in Hanoi eine Antwort. Das Gebaude verbindet Vergangenheit und Zukunft Vietnams, indem die wichtige Landestradition von Symbolen und Zeichen aufgegriffen und modern interpretiert wird. Dabei stehen die Grundformen Kreis (Himmel) und Quadrat (Erde) im Vordergrund. In diesem Band stellen die verantwortlichen Architekten das mit dem Vietnamesischen Nationalpreis fur Architektur ausgezeichnete Gebaude anhand von Planen, Bildern und Texten anschaulich und detailliert vor.