The document discusses several large-scale architectural projects in China, including the Sifang Art Park in Nanjing which featured buildings designed by 20 international architects, the Ordos 100 project in Inner Mongolia's Ordos City which was to include 100 villas designed by emerging architects but was left unfinished, and the changing skylines and vertical forests of Chinese cities. It also examines the lifestyles and shopping habits of high-net-worth individuals in China. The document provides images and diagrams related to these projects and trends.

1. LOST IN SPECULATION
ARCHITECTURE, CHINA AND ME

2. SOME BASICS

3. SUPERSTRUCTURE
Ideology
Art
Family
Culture
Religion
Philosophy
Education
Science
Politics
Media
Law
BASE
Economy
Means of production
Relations of production
Objects of production
maintains
& shapes
shapes &
maintains

6. Chinese National Real Land Price Index 35 Markets, Constant Quality Series

7. Inhabiting – Le Corbusier, The ideal man

8. Speculating - Christian de Portzamparc, One57

9. Still from The Big Short (2015)

10. Still from The Big Short (2015)

11. Still from The Big Short (2015)

12. Ghengis Khan Plaza in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. The near-empty city is designed for 1.5m people

13. ANOTHERMOUNTAINMAN, Lanwei 04 : Fly Away, Guangzhou, China, 2006

14. RAPHAEL OLIVIER, Ordos, A Failed Utopia, 2016

15. Ordos: a film by Charles Lanceplaine, 2012

16. A view of the Tianducheng development in Hangzhou August 1, 2013

17. Chinese newlyweds pose for wedding photographs in Thames Town on November 19, 2010 in Songjiang, China

18. IS IT (NET) WORTH?

19. HNWI
High-Net-Worth Individual
A high-net-worth individual (HNWI) is a person with a high net worth.
In the western, and primarily American, private banking business, these
individuals typically are defined as having investable finance (financial
assets, excluding primary residence) in excess of US$1 million.
UHNWI
Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individual
By 2007, the expansion of HNWI assets led to the creation of a super
class of HNWIs, known as Ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs),
i.e. those with US$30 million in liquid financial assets according to the
Capgemini and Merrill Lynch World Wealth Report 2006 or with a
disposable income of more than US$20 million.

22. UHNWIs – where do they live?

23. UHNWIs – what do they read?

24. Global Cities, the 2016 Report

25. Global Cities, the 2016 Report

26. Global Cities, the 2016 Report

27. Global Cities, the 2016 Report

28. Global Cities, the 2016 Report

29. UHNWIs – where do they go shopping?

30. MIPIM 2016, Cannes

31. MIPIM 2016, Cannes

32. MIPIM 2016, Cannes

33. MIPIM 2016, Cannes

34. MIPIM 2016, Cannes

35. MIPIM 2016, Cannes

36. SKYSCRAPER
摩 天 大 厦
[mótiān dàshà]

43. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Vanity Height: the Empty Space in Today's Tallest, 2013

44. Render of Pudong, Shanghai, produced for the Chinese government in 2008

45. Changsha Sky City, 2010

46. Sky City One, concept brochure, 2010

47. Sky City One, concept brochure, 2010

48. Sky City One, concept brochure, 2010

49. Changsha Sky City One compared to other skyscrapers, 2012

50. Changsha Sky City One, 2012

51. Changsha Sky City One, groundbreaking ceremony, 2013

52. Changsha Sky City One, groundbreaking ceremony, 2013

53. Foundations for Changsha Sky City repurposed as fish farm, 2015

54. Changsha Mini Sky City, 2015

55. Changsha Mini Sky City, 2015

56. GREEN
环 保 的
[huánbăo de]

57. Vertical Forest Planetary Workshop (?) – Shanghai, October 2014

58. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Bosco Verticale, 2009-2014

59. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Bosco Verticale, 2009-2014

60. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Bosco Verticale, 2009-2014

61. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Bosco Verticale, 2009-2014

62. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Bosco Verticale, 2009-2014

63. SITE, Highrise of Homes theoretical project, 1981

64. SITE, Highrise of Homes theoretical project, 1981

65. SITE, Highrise of Homes theoretical project, 1981

66. SITE, Highrise of Homes theoretical project, 1981

67. GIANANDREA BARRECA, GIOVANNI LA VARRA, STEFANO BOERI, MANFREDI CATELLA (HINES), International Highrise Award 2014

68. STEFANO BOERI, ALIDA FORTE CATELLA (COIMA), CTBUH 2015 Award (Best Tall Building Worldwide)

69. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Renovation of No.501 Jiujing Rd, Shanghai, 2015

70. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Guizhou 10 Thousand Peaks Valley Project, 2015

71. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, GuizhouMountain Forest Hotel, 2015

72. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI,Chongqinq Hortitecture, 2015

73. STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI, Shijiazhuang Masterplan, 2015

74. A Chinese businessman hid two illegally built extra storeys on his penthouse suite in Guangzhou with trees and plants

75. Illegal Mountain Constructed Atop a 26-Story Residential Building in Beijing

76. ARCHITECTURE
建 筑 风 格
[jiànzhù fēnggé]

78. The Sifang Art Project site in Nanjing

79. The long story short
In 2002, Lu Jun decides to
build a luxury-villas
development on a piece of
land in Nanjing
Nanjing architect Zhang Lei
convinces Lu Jun to pursue a
much more ambitious plan:
build a luxury-villas
development plus a luxury-
towers development
To do so, Zhang Lei invites
Arata Isozaki to invite about
twenty international
architects to design an
“architecture park”
In 2008, Lu Xun, son of Lu
Jun, leaves his postgraduate
studies in London and helps
his father in the managment
of the project

80. 1. STEVEN HOLL, Sifang Art Museum
2. LIU JIAKUN, Hotel Monochrome
3. ARATA ISOZAKI, Conference Center
4. ETTORE SOTTSASS, Recreation Center
5. ZHOU KAI, Hermit
6. SANAA, A Circle of Interaction
7. ZHANG LEI, Block House
8. MATHIAS KLOTZ, Pond Lily
9. DAVID ADJAYE, Light Box
10. MANSILLA & TUÑON, Fo-Shou
11. SEAN GODSELL, Shadows of Bamboo
12. ODILE DECQ, Flying Horse
13. LIU HENG, A Floded House
14. PHILIP F. YUAN, A Wonderland House
15. WANG SHU, San-He Residence
16. AI WEIWEI, Six-room
17. ZHANG YONGHE, Steel Lattice Railings Bd.
18. CUI KAI, House under Bamboo
19. ALBERTO KALACH, Waterside Pavilion
20. SANAKSENAHO, Boat House

81. Sifant Art Park

82. STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS, Sifang Art Museum, 2005-2011

83. STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS, Sifang Art Museum, 2005-2011

84. STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS, Sifang Art Museum, 2005-2011

85. STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS, Sifang Art Museum, 2005-2011

86. EL LISSITZKY, Wolkenbugel, 1925

87. SOL LEWITT, Incomplete open cubes, 1974

88. STEVEN HOLL, Spatial Retaining Bars, 1989

89. SIMON UNGERS, Simon Ungers_Chemnitz Urban Design Forum, Perspective of City Center, 1995

90. OMA, CCTV Headquarters, 2008-2012

91. MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

92. MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

93. MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

94. MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

95. MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

96. MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

97. MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

98. MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

99. MANSILLA + TUÑON, Fo-Shou House, 2003-2014

103. Sifang Art Park, residential complex

104. Sifang Art Park, residential complex

105. Sifang Art Park, ruin of Odile Decq's unfinished Flying Horse project

106. Sifang Art Park, ruin of Liu Heng's unfinished Folded House project

107. Piece exposed in the Sifang Art Museum

108. Current exhibitions at the Sifang Art Museum

110. The long story short
Around 2005, Jiang Yuan
Water Engineering decides to
put a lot of money on a new
luxury-villa development
close to Ordos
To do so, they ask swiss
architects Herzog & De Meuron
to select 99 emerging architects
that will design one 1000sqm
villa each.
They accept and ask Chinese
artist Ai Weiwei to design the
masterplan and be the
curator of the whole process.
He also documents it and
makes a movie out of it.
Arata Isozaki wasn't invited
to the party :(

111. The architecs invited for the Ordos 100 project surveying the site, 2008

112. Ordos 100 masterplan

113. Still from Ai Weiwei's Ordos100 documentary

114. Still from Ai Weiwei's Ordos100 documentary

115. Still from Ai Weiwei's Ordos100 documentary

116. Still from Ai Weiwei's Ordos100 documentary

117. Still from Ai Weiwei's Ordos100 documentary

118. Still from Ai Weiwei's Ordos100 documentary

119. Still from Ai Weiwei's Ordos100 documentary

120. Still from Ai Weiwei's Ordos100 documentary

121. Ordos 100 masterplan model in process, 2008

122. Ordos 100 masterplan model, 2008

123. RAPHAEL OLIVIER, Ordos, A Failed Utopia, 2016

124. RAPHAEL OLIVIER, Ordos, A Failed Utopia, 2016

125. RAPHAEL OLIVIER, Ordos, A Failed Utopia, 2016

126. RAPHAEL OLIVIER, Ordos, A Failed Utopia, 2016

127. Ai Weiwei's Ordos 100 model at Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2011

128. ‘Ordos 100 : The inevitable cultural negociations when building a city in the 21st Century.’ An exhibition on architecture, urbanization and globalization, 2009