Guangzhou Station: from object to field, to new social-condenser

Built in the 70s, Guangzhou Railway Station was regarded the central gateway toward southern China’s economic blooming since the reform. Even after the subsequent openings of Guangzhou East and South Stations, the old one still remains mostly used, serving a

Extreme Urbanism: Transient Festival City In-situ

Thesis Statement Contemporary China performs the world’s biggest population migration on a yearly schedule. The movement patterns of migrant workers to-and-fro cities and villages develop an ever-changing dynamic of demographic, economic and cultural exchanges. With major railway stations in destination

Displacing Centers: Railway Terminal of a New Agenda

Thesis Statement  ‘…architecture is getting better but the city is getting worse’, quoted from a recent Rem Koolhaas interview by Urban Flux, speaking of China as the scale of architectural intervention failing to address bigger urban issues like congestion and

Critical Stretches to a Generic City

Urban Flux vol.32, 2013   ‘…architecture is getting better but the city is getting worse’, quoted from a recent Rem Koolhaas interview by Urban Flux, speaking of China as the scale of architectural intervention failing to address bigger urban issues

Outlining a Thesis

In terms of outlining the thesis, how much emphasis should be made on the design resolution comparing to the research? Say one can go at length to establish a seminal position, but it would take a scale jump to match

Critical Stretches to a Generic City

  ‘…architecture is getting better but the city is getting worse’, quoted from a recent Rem Koolhaas interview by Urban Flux, speaking of China as the scale of architectural intervention failing to address bigger urban issue like congestion and infrastructure.