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Daniel Statham Studio is excited to announce that Suzhou Galactic Super Campus has been recognised as the 2022 Global Future Design Awards Gold Winner in the Mixed Use Architecture (Under Construction) and Hangzhou Future Car Park as the 2022 Global Future Design Awards Gold Winner in the Transportation Architecture (Under Construction).

The two wins are testaments to the Studio’s creativity and constant effort in intertwining design with technological innovation.

“Creating a ‘Super Campus’ requires a new thought process from the original work that had been developed on this scheme to date by other design teams. Our goal, therefore, was to focus on the aspiration of the client to produce a masterplan design that has a vision and iconic land presence. A strong masterplan requires logical and strong geometry that can form efficient and flexible spaces to adapt and produce intuitive way of finding and creating community within.”

“With the reduction of carbon emission, the invention of self-driven and electric/solar energy vehicles, it is no secret that technological pioneers, including Tesla, Google, and Apple, strive to make automobiles more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Such innovation has inspired our client of the Hangzhou project to envision not only a careful reconsideration of the parking for these vehicles, but an unprecedented prototype of car parking for the future – less congestion, higher destiny, and cleaner air in our cities.”

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FOHO Galactic Super Campus, Suzhou, China

Future Car Park, Hangzhou, China

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Global Future Design Awards

On July 30th, Studio Founder Daniel Statham was invited as guest speaker to the 12th Global Master Architects Forum to deliver a keynote speech on “Forking Paths.” Afterwards, Daniel joined Professor He Jingtang, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Dr. Wang Shaosen, Dean of the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Xiamen University, for an insightful conversation regarding the interdiscriplinary nature of architectural practices of today.

This year’s forum was sponsored by Xiamen Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, Xiamen Construction Bureau, and China Xiamen International Stone Fair Committee, and co-organized by the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Xiamen University, Xiamen Planning Bureau, and Xiamen Engineering and Consulting Association. Journal of Human Settlement in West China, AC (ArchiCreation), Strait City, New Architecture, Planner, Academy of Architecture and many other media presses demonstrated generous supports to the Forum.

As an experienced architect, Daniel completed the majority of his works in the so-called “borderless” status. In his early years, Daniel has worked, studied, and traveled all across the globe, including Singapore, Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, Egypt, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and many more. The diverse cultural backgrounds, geographical conditions, and social environments have always inspired him to contemplate the way of genuinely integrating architecture with its designated location.

Daniel suggested in the presentation that nowadays, any architect can find themselves in a maze-like garden of forking paths, with complicated and intertwining crossing points in front of their eyes —— childhood dream, personal interest, education background, professional development, professional peer, project client, collaborators, etc. Upon experiencing all various forking paths and making different choices, the term “architect” would be delicately coated with multiple layers of brand new meaning. It is also during this forking, amalgamating process that architecture would gradually generate an irreplaceable, unduplicatable aura of uniqueness.

May 12-14, Daniel Statham Studio Partner Ms Feng Shi was invited to Xi’an with ten UK architecture design, engineering and consulting firms led by Matt Ashworth, Commercial Counsellor, Department of International Trade, British Embassy in China. The delegation participate in the 2021 Xi’an Industrial Investment Cooperation Annual Meeting, visit the local government, enterprises and development zone, and discuss with all parties the construction and infrastructure industry chain cooperation and how to achieve the goal of energy saving, emission reduction, green and low-carbon transition.

The delegation was composed of top companies such as Aedas, Zaha Hadid Architects, Arup, Heatherwich Studio, Haskoll, Savills, etc. They had talks with the Mayor and Vice Mayor of Xi’an and other local government leaders. Visit Qujiang New District, Xi’an High-tech Zone and Xi’xian New District, and visit local enterprises including Qu Jiang Cultural Industry Investment (Group) Co., Ltd., Xian Rail Transit Group. Ms. Feng Shi, partner of the studio, introduced and demonstrated Daniel Statham Studio’s expertise and representative works of innovative, green and sustainable architecture.

The local companies show great interest in studio and we are expecting great opportunity in Xi’an in coming future.

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For the opening forum of the year 2021, APSMUSEUM was honored to invite Ms. Karen Smith, art critic and curator, Executive Director of OCAT Xi’an, Curator-at-Large at SCOP; Mr. Lu Xun, Founder and Director of Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing; Mr. David Tung, Director of Lisson Gallery, Shanghai; and Mr. Daniel Statham, Founder of the Daniel Statham Studio. The discussion focused on the artworks of artist Anish Kapoor, and how they relate to art, architecture, and public space.

As the forum host, Karen started the discussion by setting a context for us on art and public space. Daniel shared his experience of working on several projects in London, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, as well as his collaboration with artists on art and architectural projects. Since 2006, Lu Xun had been working with 24 architects and commissioned 24 architectural works around the Sifang lake zone. He also talked about the transitions that he went through at different stages. David joined Lisson Gallery in 2016 and had worked with Anish Kapoor on many critical projects, including the artist’s major exhibition in China which took 3 years for preparation. Towards the end of the discussion, David elaborated on several of Kapoor’s major works, and how the artist transformed and created those colossal public art projects that we see today.

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Daniel Statham was invited by Yang Pu district and MATT to give keynote speech for Shanghai Design City 10 Years Anniversary event.

The other keynote speaker include Thomas Heatherwick,  Masayuki Kurokawa, Prof. Denis Morisset etc.

Architecture, art and design once belonged together and as human civilisation progressed , the separation has taken its place.  From architecture to art and design, we sit down together with studio founder Daniel Statham , Shanghai Fiu gallery owner Liangyin Shen and Siberian jewelry designer Andrey Yarden to talk about how architecture, art and design influence each other. From something artistic to something that require fine engineering, these three eternally coexist, forming a kind of symbiotic and reciprocal relationship. “How does the collaborations between three different professions take place” ,   “Is architecture under art and design?” ,  “ Does art enhance architecture ?”  , “Is design a form of art ?” In this discussion, we look at their intertwined relationship.