The Austrian architecture firm Coop Himmelb (l) au won a competition to create the International Conference Center of Dalian.
As if an alien spacecraft landed on Earth, this is how I would imagine that this design.
Sounds like you have a lot of work on his plate, but the project looks amazing.
The project emphasizes the tradition of innovation in advanced and controversial forms of European architecture firm.
Center is designed to "reflect the promising future of Dalian modern and tradition as a major port, trade, industry and tourism in the city."
Design incorporates a public area with shopping at ground level, a theater of 1,900 seats and a capacity of 2500 conference space located 149ft (5 m) above the lobby as floating space.
Small conference spaces are located around this central space.
"With the International Conference Centre in Dalian, a city within a building hybrid emerge, " says the statement of design.
"For the technical infrastructure of the building, this means that we must consider a lot of people moving into the building while waiting for a high level of movement and comfort, as well as a state of art related to building high flexibility and low power consumption.
Designed to “both reflect the promising modern future of Dalian and its tradition as an important port, trade, industry and tourism city” the Dalian Conference Center is associative in its architectural concept rather than pictographic, taking on the softness of form as though eroded by forces of the sea. The design incorporates a public zone with shopping at ground level and a 1,900 seat theatre and 2,500 capacity conference space situated 15m above the entrance hall as floating spaces. Smaller conference spaces are situated around this core space.
