Ma Yansong’s latest design, Chaoyang Park project was launched at Times Square in NYC

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2013年纽约当地时间9月5日下午六时, 由马岩松设计的一座有着高山流水之势的东方绿色建筑在纽约时代广场举行项目开启仪式。这座位于北京朝阳公园大湖之畔的城市综合体，延续着马岩松一直在追寻的“山水城市”之路，是中国古老的自然哲学思想在当代城市中的演绎，在极端现代主义建筑泛滥的中央商务区，马岩松希望通过”朝阳公园项目”将一种生机勃勃的山水文化注入新的城市实践。

At 6pm New York time, September 5th of 2013, a green building with distinct Oriental features designed by Ma Yansong was launched at Times Square in New York city. Located along the lake of Beijing Chaoyang Park, this city complex is the continuation “Shan-Shui City” – a design concept Ma Yansong has been pursuing. It is a new interpretation of China’s ancient natural philosophy in contemporary city. In this typical CBD area that is flooded with extreme-modernism buildings, Ma Yansong aims at infusing the vigorous Shan-Shui culture into the new urbanisation with this “Chao Yang Park” project.

比邻这座世界第二大城市公园，马岩松不希望该项目如周边的方盒子塔楼一样，成为公园与城市的分界，而是通过造山治水的设计，让建筑与公园的景观融为一体，成为自然向城市的延伸；同时又把公园的自然元素引入建筑群内部，创造城市中的世外桃源。设计的开端就是主动地把地块理解为公园的一部分：借湖光山色，以高层写字楼为峰，独栋写字楼为坡，高端办公区为脊，住宅为峦；结合古典山水的湖、泉、林、溪、谷、石、峰等丹青要素为一体，勾勒出一幅富有未来色彩的城市山水画卷。整个建筑群不是被“建”出来的，而是仿佛从环境中生长出来一般，并再现出山水自然的空间文化格局。置身其中，人们既能感受到整体的山水气势，又能于细微之处感受一花一世界的心境。

这个项目是以商务办公和居住为主的生态综合体，但它已经超越了惯常的绿色建筑的概念，而是以“精神的绿色”去开创中国式绿色建筑。如何从传统脉络中找寻当代建筑和城市的新方向，是马岩松非常关注的问题，这也是中国建筑是否能以自己的方式为未来城市寻找发展道路的问题。一个国际化的城市“模山范水”应当以继承传统山水的精神，重拾自然的传统价值观为先导，而后才是对建筑形式的革新乃至城市形态的转型。本着这样的理念，马岩松将继续对城市山水进行探索和实践。

Since this project is adjacent to the world’s second-largest city park, Ma Yansong hopes that it will not become the boundary that separates the park and the city. On the contrary, by introducing the Shan-shui elements into the design, the building and the park is to be merged into a whole landscape, so to have the nature extending into the city, and to create a land of idyllic beauty in the city. The design starts with the understanding that the park is part of the plot: by taking the natural beauty of lakes and mountains, the architectural complex can be read as a futuristic city landscape painting in which high-rise buildings act as the peaks, individual office buildings as the slope, high-end offices as the ridge and residential buildings as mountain ranges in combination with classical landscape elements like lakes, springs, forest, streams, valleys, rocks and peaks. As a result, the whole architectural complex does not look like they are “built” but growing up naturally from its surrounding environment and they recreate a new Shan-Shui space typology. People can feel both the grandeur of the holistic landscape and its exquisite inside scenery.

This project is an ecological complex mainly functions as offices and residential buildings. However, it goes beyond the usual concept of green building. It is a Chinese-featured green building developed with the “spirit of green”. What Ma Yansong concerns a lot about is to seek the new direction of contemporary architecture and city from the traditional culture. This also decides if Chinese architecture can find its own way for future urban development. The simulation of the landscape of an international metropolis should take over the traditional Shan-Shui spirit and restore the natural traditional values followed with the innovation of architectural forms and the transformation of urban structures. In conformity with this idea, Ma Yansong will proceed with his exploration and practice of Shan-Shui City.

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