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BAM at YIXI (China's TED Talk)

BAM gives a Yixi talk about the Chinese urban landscape! BAM finds solutions to Beijing's notorious Guomao traffic intersection through an unlikely source: landscape design. MORE on "Guomao Is a Landscape" "Guomao may be hardscape, but it is landscape just the same," says BAM co-founder Jake Walker. "It is part of the true material of the city defining places where we want to be.”
NYTimes 'T Magazine' International Symposium

"Artists, designers, architects and creatives from all over the world use art as an opportunity to explore the past, present and future of the city one step ahead. BAM, which specializes in urban landscape design in China, gave a keynote speech." China 'T' 2nd Global Style Forum held in Chengdu Sept 2018.
"Playground Crazy" Lecture at UCCA

BAM Partners Jake Walker and Jingwen Guan give a talk at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing about designing Future Urban Playspace for children and adults. Playgrounds can fit inside the much larger cultural context of Play in the Landscape.
INBOX
"Dear BAM, I am so excited to know that such a fun Architecture company exists on this planet.
Regards, Debbie"
BAM SHANGHAI
BAM in full throttle out of Beijing and Shanghai with a New York satellite
Landscape Vision

Charting the AESTHETIC PRINCIPALS of landscape design to create a clear-thinking guide to aid generations of future designers. LANDSCAPE VISION is authored by co-founder Daniel Gass. Intelligence at BAM after 10 dumb years in practice. New edition in progress...
LANDSCAPE IS MORE

No more little green tricks in the city... BAM redefines "landscape" territory by re-imagining the busiest, fastest-growing intersection in Beijing as a green, defensible park with integrated systems. Architecture is not the solution. VIDEO: "Guomao is a landscape and needs to be designed as one"
"10 Years of Dumb" BAM Retrospective

What did YOU think of BAM's "10 Years of Dumb" retrospective at 798? Ballistic Propaganda Machine newsagent Walker hits the streets of Beijing to find out. Channel 28 in Chinese /English
Nature Is an Idea

The definition of Nature is rooted in the way different cultures define themselves. Plus: Connections and disconnections between landscape, art, nature, culture.
BAM+UN Studio

BAM collaborates with architecture powerhouse UN Studio for a site on the new Guangzhou city axis. The proposal includes an enormous public park spanning retail and transport infrastructure.
BAM+PWP Landscape

BAM is pleased to announce teaming with Peter Walker Partners (PWP) for the Sanlin Bund Planning Competition. PWP will lead concept design and BAM will lead design execution, similar to collaboration for the Beijing Garden Expo. Peter Walker visits BAM's studio for workshops and lectures.
LANDSCAPE WINS "IDEA KING" AWARD

The Vanke Shoukai Daxing Experience Center landscape has won a 2014 Idea King Award for outstanding landscape design. Congratulations to the BAM team, Spark Architects, and Vanke Landscape Manager Kanglin!
TITAN IS NUMBER ONE

The Titan hits top of the charts in Archinect's 13 Most Viewed Projects in 2013. Favorite comment: "When did architecture go on crack?"
Option Studio

BAM teaches a multidisciplinary design studio at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Jake Walker and Allison Dailey commute from New York and Beijing.
HOW BAM IS DIFFERENT
在 BAM,一切皆有可能

5 traits make BAM very different from other architectural companies working in China, even globally. What are they? (Is it true that BAM could become a toothbrush company?!) Kick it into gear and read right HERE. If you forget how to read, watch this video!
VISION MAG & Décoration Internationale

Golden Egg Bar is featured in the July issue of VISION magazine and the Paris-based magazine, Décoration Internationale. And that's not all!
CAFA Studio
Daniel Gass, Zhang Yuan, and Jake Walker are honored to teach architectural design this semester at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
BAM says "Copying is OK!"
"Copying is OK!" -BAM
BAM+swire+sino-ocean

BAM is delighted to design two playgrounds inside the unprecedented public park space of Jiuxianqiao Park in Beijing.
RETAIL INSTALLATIONS
BAM's new category

Hey there boys and girls... Not sure if you noticed but BAM-USA.com has a new category... RETAIL INSTALLATIONS! Over the past 18 months BAM has been doing more and more installations for retail environments, from up north in Shenyang to down south in Hong Kong! 'Tis the season, and stay tuned for many more BAM-style installations...
Financial Reports

BAM's 2009 annual report and the 2010 Q1 report were issued to shareholders this week.
BAM+Decibel Architecture

Collaborating with Decibel Architecture of Melbourne, Australia on their Wujin Lotus Pavillion project, BAM delivers a 7m tall organic 'droplet' chandelier based on concept and schematic work by Decibel.
BAM+RIBA

BAM tells the story, "The Empress's New Shoes," through architecture with Markus Jatch for the 2014 RIBA Windows project in Xintiandi, Shanghai.
all signs pointy to yes

The Beijing BAM office installed two ripping green LED signs. The signs feature BAM's explosive logo, brainchild of the graphic mastermind Lillian Ng.
CLAMSHELL PEARLS

Clamshell Carstands have been picked up by news sources all over! See what they're saying in Italy or on car blog "Auto Motto".
cometh the moment
cometh the dailey
BAM Beijing is honored and delighted to have Allison Dailey back in her post following her time in the Harvard GSD Department of Landscape Architecture.
TAB 9 PUBLISHED

That's right, Pete KL, TAB is back! Get ready for a whole new era of academic publication with the new and improved TABULA CASA. Now mining the creative depths of the local Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and of course the progenitor, Cornell University, TAB continues in its mission as a forum for news and discourse within the academic design communities. TAB 9 is out, so contact us to get your hands on a hot copy and, if you are lucky, the winning tshirt design-- and stay tuned for TAB 10 in the upcoming Spring Semester.
ABITARE

Check out the May issue of CASE DE ABITARE for interview by Li Difei on L'Idiot Restaurant.
TAB 9
In school or at work a lot of young designers create things that are not suitable for school projects or client presentation. TAB 9 is publication to showcase this work to other young designers. It includes documentation of installations, drawings, photoshops, essays, found items, anything funny, self-promotion, gossip, etc. TAB 9 is being organized now especially to showcase some of the work of students at CAFA in Beijing, however submissions are open to everyone! If you would like to submit please email BAM!!! Also to see some of the early issues of TAB which were started at Cornell University please visit THE FACTORY SCHOOL.
BAM lecture at the central academy of fine art (CAFA)

BAM Lecture "More Than a Pretty Face!" will be held 14 April 2011 6:30PM @ CAFA #7 Building Lecture Hall 4月14日下午6点半 @ 中央美术学院设计大楼一层红椅子报告厅
New book Utopia Forever Features BAM+MSP project biornis aesthetope

Biornis Aesthetope is featured in Utopia Forever: Visions of Architecture and Urbanism -
an inspirational exploration of utopias and radical approaches to city planning. Read more at GESTALTEN ONLINE.
Cover feature for ANTAE n.5

Bilbao architecture publication features BAM's design for L'Idiot Restaurant and profiles the firm.
Architecture Burns
建筑物着火

An era of Architecture comes to an end with famous buildings burning around the world. It’s time for the landscape to become the new urban iconography.
一个建筑终结的时代——世界各地许多著名建筑毁于大火。
将是园林景观成为城市新座标的时代。
digital landscape architecture now

New book by Nadia Amoroso published by Thames and Hudson features several BAM projects.
Celery

Woody Allen attempts to steal another large head of celery.