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Small stone hutongs, built within a courtyard-and-alley system, are emblematic of Beijing?s traditional inner-city architecture which still contends with modern, cooperate redevelopments to shape the character of the city. In one of the oldest cities in China, the important tasks of preservation and revitalization require particular sensitivity. Captured at the centre of the battlefield between development, conservation and renovation, the hutongs, on the verge of erasure, call into question the paradoxical nature of these paradigms.00The Micro Hutong Renewal series by ZAO/standardarchitecture focusses on small structures which residents have added to hutong courtyards in the last 60 years. The anchor project of this publication is the Hutong Children?s Library & Art Centre, which won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016
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Hutong Metabolism, Cristina Steingräber
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Hutong Metabolism
- Subtitle
- ZAO/standardarchitecture
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Cristina Steingräber
- Publisher
- ArchiTangle GmbH
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 3966800152
- ISBN13
- 9783966800150
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction
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- Small stone hutongs, built within a courtyard-and-alley system, are emblematic of Beijing?s traditional inner-city architecture which still contends with modern, cooperate redevelopments to shape the character of the city. In one of the oldest cities in China, the important tasks of preservation and revitalization require particular sensitivity. Captured at the centre of the battlefield between development, conservation and renovation, the hutongs, on the verge of erasure, call into question the paradoxical nature of these paradigms.00The Micro Hutong Renewal series by ZAO/standardarchitecture focusses on small structures which residents have added to hutong courtyards in the last 60 years. The anchor project of this publication is the Hutong Children?s Library & Art Centre, which won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016