BEA complete their largest-ever chinese housing project

The China Eagle Group (CEG), a Shanghai-based development company specialising in the luxury property market, was planning to build upmarket apartments for Yancheng’s growing and affluent middle classes.

 

An up-and-coming city of some 2 million inhabitants 300km north of the megacity of Shanghai, Yancheng is currently experiencing a property boom. The client’s instructions to Baumschlager Eberle Architekten were clear: to provide the very highest standards of architecture and interior design. Equally important in satisfying the expecta- tions of potential buyers was the need for all 560 apartments to have a southern aspect. The architects’ response, recently completed. was a striking development comprising three residential towers, 120,000m2 of living space and the accompanying infrastructure. In stark contrast to the serried ranks of apartment blocks omnipresent in Chi- na, the design features three different, highly sculptural towers disposed to follow the sun as it moves through the sky and so guarantee optimum light exposure. Kaiyuan Street is the largest residential development to be designed by Baumschlager Eberle Architekten in China, where the firm has been operating for 20 years. It met with great success from the outset, with all the apartments selling – primarily to investors – prior to the start of construction. “We worked on this project up to the planning application stage and are very happy with the result, which was achieved in just two years.” Philippe Rettenbacher, Managing Director of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten (Lustenau), describing the background to the project.

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