[Interview by China Culture Daily] Chen Keshi: Lulang Town, modern interpretation of traditional Tibetan Architecture

In March this year, Lulang international tourist town, a key project of Guangdong Province to aid Tibet, was officially opened in the Mangmang forest sea of Nyingchi, Tibet. The people's Government of Guangdong Province specially sent a letter of thanks to the Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University, thanking Chen Keshi, director of the China urban design and research center of Peking University, as the chief designer of Lulang international tourist town project, for his six-year efforts for the Tibet assistance project, and fully affirming Chen Keshi and his team's spirit of pursuing excellence and excellence. The letter of thanks reads: "The research and design team led by Professor Chen Keshi overcame the plateau reaction, visited Tibet for more than 30 times, exchanged Tibetan architectural design and construction technology with local experts and craftsmen in Tibet, settled on the project site, carefully planned and designed, and completed the structure and architectural scheme design of 250 different buildings in the town project. With the close cooperation of all parties involved in the project, it ensured the unified Tibetan architectural style of the town project and made important contributions to the construction of the town Offer. "

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Tuocheng - Guangdong's millennium old city will return to glory

In March 2017, the "Tuocheng ancient town" designed by Shenzhen China Reconstruct Institute of Architectural & Urban Design was highly praised by all parties at the scheme review meeting organized by Longchuan County, Heyuan, Guangdong Province. Both China Reconstruct Institute of Architectural & Urban Design and Longchuan County Party committee and county government said that they would work together to build Tuocheng into an important tourism business card of Guangdong Province in 3-5 years.

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Shenzhen architect who speak with his works -- an exclusive interview with Professor Chen Keshi

Shen Qinghua, reporter of Shenzhen Special Zone News, Shenzhen is the "city of design", and design must be expressed in works. For an architect, the most important thing is to have loud design works. Among Chinese architects, Professor Chen Keshi of Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University has won wide praise for the "high quality" of his works in the industry. In the past 2016, his works Lulang international tourism town and Zhuhai Opera House (formerly known as Zhuhai Opera House) were completed and opened one after another. The two works have attracted extensive attention at home and abroad.

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"The birth of Venus" -- the Grand Theater lights up the coastline of Zhuhai

In October 2016, a new landmark was completed in Zhuhai - the 90 meter high Zhuhai opera house. "Moon Scallop" - the shape of Zhuhai opera house is two shells. Professor Chen Keshi, the main architect, was inspired by the work "the birth of Venus" by the 15th century artist Botticelli. Professor Chen recalled, "when I was standing on the coast of Zhuhai, the first thought in my mind was the sunrise on the sea, but the building needed two parts, so I then thought of" the bright moon on the sea ". However, the sun and moon cannot appear on the sea at the same time. Then I thought of the famous painting called the birth of Venus. "

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"Shenzhen on the sea" -- building a new spatial pattern of Shenzhen's future coastal city with "Four bays and One river"

Abstract: on December 24, 2015, the "maritime Shenzhen - maritime culture and Coastal Urban Space Development Summit Forum" was held in Shenzhen. How to build a bay area city closely related to the ocean and create a "maritime Shenzhen" that stands out from the world? Experts from many universities and research institutions at home and abroad gathered together to discuss the possibility of this urban idea put forward by Professor Chen Keshi of Peking University, and put forward suggestions on the planning and construction of Shenzhen coastal city.

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Revitalizing of ancient Hakka Village -- Zhongying city built "gankeng Hakka town" and won the planning and Design Award

In the tide of new urbanization, the protection and Revitalizing of ancient villages have become the focus of attention from all walks of life. What is the most ideal development mode of ancient villages? How can people really participate in the "Revitalizing" of ancient villages? In the game between commercial pursuit and ancient village protection, who is the ancient village developing and protecting for? This series of questions have been answered in the design practice of gankeng Hakka town.

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