Bridge of Luck Between East and West

Nowadays all around the world is created a countless amount of innovative skyscrapers, 3-D printing is becoming increasingly strong in it’s position in the fields of design and engineering, and against this background, much less attention than it would be deserved get amazing bridges, architecture of which also reached a whole new level. Usually bridges just help to get from point A to point B, but some of them have a lot more functions which is perfectly demonstrated in the recent work of the international architectural firm NEXT architects – the Lucky Knot, realized in the fast growing Chinese city of Changsha.

Changsha – is the administrative center of the province of Hunan with a population of about 9 million people. It is famous because it was here the start of the political career of Mao Zedong and today the headquarters of the communist party which he founded turned into a museum. The fate of the city was very far from being easy and, for example, after one of China’s largest man-made fires in 1938, it received the status of one of the most destroyed towns of the Second World War along with Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Stalingrad. 

Today Changsha is one of the top 20 economically fastest growing cities in the country and with the prevailing quantity of population belonging to the middle class. Moreover here there is everything one need for happiness according to the ancient oriental philosophy of Feng Shui: water, mountains and the ancient city.

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 Text: Elizaveta Klepanova
Illustrative materials provided by NEXT architects