Comments on: LINKED HYBRID HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

By: Quora

Quora — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:11:22 +0000

What is the most beautiful skyscraper ever built?…

I’d like to suggest two more “unusual candidates”, both by Steven Holl: 1. The Vanke Center (Shenzhen, China, 2009) lovingly dubbed the “Horizontal Skyscraper”. Despite being dwarfed vertically by the required 35 meter high limit, it still stands …

By: yang

yang — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:19:00 +0000

Hi brennum4,

I suggest you to look up the book called Architecture Spoken by Steven Holl and the official website of Steven Holl Architects. For Linked Hybrid, most people praise the design. You might want to also look for criticism. One example would be a CNN news report on Linked Hybrid. Also, as some people indicated, the implementation and the use of Linked Hybrid seems to be a contrast to some of the ambitious design. It would help if you dig into that.

Good Luck!

By: brennum4

brennum4 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:52:48 +0000

If anyone has any information pertaining to costs, construction or use, could you please direct the info my way. It would be a great help.

By: brennum4

brennum4 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:46:21 +0000

Hi Yang,
I am also doing a case study on the linked hybrid and I was wondering what information that you found. If it is possible could I get some info from you or could you help point me in the correct direction?
thanks

By: yang

yang — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:50:40 +0000

I am currently doing a case study on Linked Hybrid. Since the building is mostly occupied by residents now, I am wondering whether anyone knows how they respond to that. Do people interact with each other in the community? Is there any way I can get statistics on building’s green performance when it is in use (because most online official data is estimation)? Also, this building really stands out of its background. Does anyone have any opinion about that? Beijing being a historical city with profound culture, how do you evaluate Linked Hybrid in such a greater context?

By: lakkakiisseli

lakkakiisseli — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:37:19 +0000

Thanks for the article!

It will be interesting to see if the semi-public walkways will strike a cord in the Chinese culture. Where Le Corbusier’s Unite d’habitation and other brutalists failed, perhaps the Hybrid will succeed. IMO, everything will depend on the culture that forms around the semi-public walkways. This is an irrational, social process that is hard to predict.

Here’s a link to my blog article where I talk more about these things:
http://hanba.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/steven-holl%E2%80%99s-utopia/

Regards,
hanba

By: TAT

TAT — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:56:40 +0000

Does anyone know about how some hotels are interesting in the towers and the bridges?

By: Jill Fehrenbacher

Jill Fehrenbacher — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:06:55 +0000

Hey Tat! Thanks for reading! Other readers.. if anyone is reading this from this area, please get in touch with Tat Lam. Thanks!

-Jill

By: TAT

TAT — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:33:27 +0000

Hi, i am doing a indepth research about the community transformation about that area, i am looking for a resident to interview…through phone or email or in person. please helpppp

By: chairman

chairman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:18:32 +0000

I looked around the web. It is interesting Steven Holl Architect does not have any email contact window so that its end users can provide feedback for their improvement. Any one knows how to contact them via email?

By: chairman

chairman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:07:42 +0000

I am a new resident in this Steven Holl’s signature project in Beijing, Linked Hybrid, or Dance MoMA. It is wonderful to live in this eco-green geothermal condo except two things:
1. lack of storage for residents in units
2. the natural gas pipes are exposed to cook top burner, only two inches to the cook top base. Imagine when Beijing residents use Chinese wok to cook, the flame will be in contact with the unprotected gas pipe. I could not believe this is part of the design. I hope it can be fixed for the sake of public safety.

By: verysmoothjon

verysmoothjon — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:39:53 +0000

It is a sad day in architecture, when something so monstrous, even by western standards is plopped down, and built in historic Beijing. This represents a far deviation from anything I learned growing up in the west, and later to return to China — in Bejing. It should behoove architects of the stature like Mr. Holl, to keep their grubby hands of experiementalism to their own soil and territory. However, the ruinous nature of the architecture deserve NOT applaud, but HUGE criticism and outcry. When will we ever hear the truth regarding scale, articulation of surfaces, harmony of the parts of the whole, ethnography and contextualism? In building on ‘foreign soil,’ do we leave all principles regarding the integrity of the built environment and toss them out? Shame on this building!!

By: Richie

Richie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:38:48 +0000

Great design. Not surprisingly so from Mr. Holl.

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By: michael beardsley

michael beardsley — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:32:00 +0000

love the architecture! My business partner and I are looking to build new and exciting properties in Colorado and these fit the bill. I have a feeling we willn not be able to build them fast enough for the people that will want them.

michael

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:20:00 +0000

I must say, I’m not a fan of gigantic condos. In fact I hate them – It has no personality, like people were robots.

But I recognize it is the only way to hold tons of people in enormous megalopolis, and this project is simply the best thing I have ever seen or heard or read. Not for the geothermal structure or the beautiful architecture, but for one simple fact:

The ones who live there won’t feel depressed when they get home, they won’t see 700 apartments looking exactly the same way in 4 huge gray blocks called “buildings.” It’s the first project of its kind that gives the dwellers some dignity.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:28:00 +0000

In architecture, one wants to consider not only the building’s siting, but also the siting of each individual space inside, and how it will interact with the natural conditions of sun, shade, wind. In a large building, the individual space goes by the wayside; not an issue only with Holl’s work but also with almost any large-scale project.

Bearing these criticisms in mind, there’s only so much one can do when it comes to high-density housing, and Holl seems to be making the best of it… The public spaces look decent, giving a sense of place. The living quarters also seem pleasant. Not everyone will get a lovely view, and some may be in shadow for most of the day because of the bridges. The flexibility aspect of the apartments brings his Fukuoka housing project to mind. The siting, skin, and forms of the buildings set them up as a group without looking like a compound of identical projects (such as those demolished in the last years near Sox Park in Chicago).

I’d love to see the surrounding site and what drove the placement of the buildings. Who can hate green roofs (soccer anyone?).

Everyone take note – geothermal isn’t just earth-friendly but cost effective. Corporate campuses use it regularly – they’ll be around long enough to reap the benefits.