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Vanke Dignified Life

January 18, 2016 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

ARTIST RESIDENCY CHINA — HANGZHOU, no. 34

Vanke Dignified Life

A short distance from the Liangzhu Museum is the Vanke Dignified Life Cultural Village, a retirement zone of residential, hospital, nursing and rehab services, shops, restaurants, an international youth hostel, and 35% green space. The bus dropped us off near the non-denominational church Mei Li Zhou. It was designed by Tsushima Design Studio of Tokyo and built in 2010, not by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando as had been thought before being corrected by office staff.

Mei Li Zhou

Mei Li Zhou Church

Vanke Dignified Life

umbrella is essential for sunscreen as the day heats up

Vanke Dignified Life

regional cuisine cafeteria lunch, choice of fish or meat and three vegetables plus rice, at the Liangzhu Cultural Village, a recently created retirement park-town near Hangzhou

Liangzhu

Not far from the retirement village we visited a second Liangzhu Culture Museum designed by David Chipperfield Architects, also not by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. It has not yet opened. The building was locked and empty. A guard let us roam the outdoor terraces as a professional courtesy to the university faculty.

Liangzhu

Liangzhu

Liangzhu

Liangzhu

Liangzhu

bus trip

return trip to Shanghai

bus trip

farm plots between train beds beneath highways north of Shanghai

bus trip

bus trip

apartment construction that is evidence of the massive human migration from rural to urban areas

bus trip

seemingly endless apartment tower groups

bus trip

bus trip

bus trip

Sky SOHO designed by Zaha Hadid, first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize

bus trip

non-sky shopping

bus trip

bamboo wrapped new construction

bus trip

constant rebuilding

bus trip

return to Shanghai University & end of a two day bus trip to Hangzhou

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