Consists of material related to published material by Beda Higgins.

Print taken from Joseph Crawhall II's woodblock depicting bee, as used in his published work 'Impresses Quaint.'

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In April 1998 the Chinese government announced an open competition to design ‘one of the best arts palaces in the world’. The proposed development incorporated a 2200-seat opera house, a concert hall, a national theatre and mini-theatre, and a public park. The selection process consisted of five different briefs in five stages over a 16-month period. Terry Farrell & Partners reached the fifth-stage submission along with architect Paul Andreu, who emerged as the final winner.

Terry Farrell & Partners initial submission was a colourful low-rise box, organised within a nine-square grid, each section of which was dedicated to a separate but linked function. The three sections facing the main, north elevation were connected to form an entrance and foyer space. The three cultural sections, each a different colour, housed the theatre, concert hall, and opera house. The three southern sections were given over to back-of-house facilities.

The scheme went through several revisions. In the first scheme a large foyer was to be clad with screens which visualised performances happening in the main auditoria. In the second revision, a crystal wall was inserted in the north elevation of the building to provide increased permeability between the performance spaces and the street. During the third stage revision, the client wanted more references to classical Chinese traditions, and so the fly towers of the opera house and theatre were positioned beneath two saucer like roofs to provide an appearance of weightlessness. During the final submission revision phase, the site itself was moved from Tian’anmen Square to a larger but less prominent area 70 metres behind the Great Hall of the People. Along with the change of site came the removal of an earlier height restriction and less emphasis on Chinese tradition. The final submissions retained the transparency of the original concept, as well as an aspiration for the building to harmonize with the rest of the city, but was given greater solidity and a more dramatic roofline.

A collection of working drawings for stages of architectural project. They are assumed to consist of tender and/or construction plans, sections and elevations with associated revisions. This file has not yet been catalogued at item level.

The Beijing railway station is a dynamic new landmark station that helped transform Beijing into the global metropolis for Olympics Games held in 2008. It is a fully integrated multi-modal transportation hub that serves as a “Gateway” to the capital and a vital link in China’s new highspeed intercity network. An oval-shaped station was designed by the British architecture firm of TFP Farrells in collaboration with the Tianjin Design Institute The design strategy also incorporates separate zones catering to different types of vehicular traffic including area for underground basement car-parking spaces, taxi drop-off bays, taxi pick-up bays with queuing spaces and bus spaces making the station as a comprehensive transport hub.

Model of external facade of Beijing South Station, Beijing China, showing some of the surrounding connecting roads and landscape features made from thin plastic, encased in a detachable clear acrylic box casing. Dimensions of height, width, depth in centimetres: 61 x 56 x 30