Besides Phoenix Island Hotel in Sanya, what other buildings has Ma designed?

Ma won the bid for the first foreign-related landmark building.

/kloc-0 was born in Beijing in 1975./kloc-0 graduated from the Department of Architecture of Beijing Institute of Architecture in 1999, and then studied at Yale University in the United States, where he won the Master of Architecture and the Samuel J. F. Gehlsen Excellent Design Award. In 2006, he won the Young Architect Award of new york Architectural Association and the Architectural Research Award of American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 20001year. He has worked in Zaha Hadid's office in London and Peter Eisenman's office in new york. In 2004, he returned to China to establish Beijing MAD Architecture Office and taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His works include the "floating island" which attracted wide attention and discussion in the architectural circles at home and abroad in 2002-the plan to rebuild the World Trade Center, and his works were collected by the China Art Museum; And the design of "Monroe Tower" (completed in 2009), which won the bid in the absolute super-high-rise international competition in Toronto, Canada, became the first China architect to win a major landmark building project abroad in history. Other works include the first prize of Shanghai Modern Art Park (S-MAP) conceptual design competition, the first prize of Guangzhou Bio Island Solar System Plaza International Competition (completed in 2008) and the first prize of "Net+Bar" conceptual design competition. The artistic installations "Fish Tank" and "Ink Ice" were exhibited in China Art Museum and China Millennium Monument respectively. In September this year, Ma will participate in the 10th Venice International Architecture Biennale as the youngest architect in China.

For a long time, architects in China have been worried about the confidence of the market. China has become a testing ground for international architects, and the design rights of major landmark projects in China have been obtained by foreign designers. Some projects even stipulate in the bidding that domestic design units must form a consortium with foreign design institutions before they can participate in the bidding. While the domestic design community is rationally rethinking and constantly regaining its market position, Ma, a young architect from China, and his international team are beginning to emerge on the international architectural stage.

Win the respect of the city

In Mississauga, the seventh largest city in Canada, a grand announcement ceremony was held to confirm the architectural design scheme. The mayor personally announced the results, and the local citizens and the media paid attention to the designers like rock stars. The star is Ma, a 30-year-old China architect.

This is a 56-story apartment building, and the developer held an international innovative design competition for it. The "Absolute Tower" scheme of Beijing MAD Architecture Office led by Ma finally stood out after defeating the schemes of five other construction companies that entered the nomination stage. Ma Yan Song said, "I have been interviewed by local media since morning, including doing live programs on radio and TV stations." . Mayor Mississauga personally wrote to Ma Yan Song, thanking him for designing a very good building for the city.

Create freedom and rebirth

If some buildings are attached to a certain form, the "absolute tower" is a building that brings people infinite reverie. Ma Yan Song said: "The Absolute Tower was not named by us, but by a critic of a famous local media. In their view, the building looks as elegant as Marilyn Monroe. As a popular art, architecture does not deliberately shape, but truly reflects human nature and nature, giving people unlimited imagination and triggering people's rich psychological activities. Some people say that this building is like Marilyn Monroe, and some people say that it is like flowing music, but it gives people a good feeling. " "All our works are against the oppressive feeling brought by machines, and also against the architecture of technology first and low-cost replication. People need to be liberated from the tension and oppression in the industrial age and find an equal and open space. The functionality that architecture should meet should be extended to people's spiritual world in the new century, creating greater freedom and more possibilities for people's lives. "

While completing the architectural design of absolute towers, Ma is still designing part of the interior space of the building. Each floor of the building has a large balcony, and the space of the apartment is not divided into functional areas, so mixed functions become the most possible functions.

In the architecture of the industrial age, space is artificially divided into various functions, such as eating, sleeping and meeting guests. Man is ruled by architecture, and he must obey a rule instead of creating his own space at will. Ma said that the creative spirit we always adhere to is people-oriented, and architecture can only be the stage and background for people's activities. "Do fish need a fish tank?"

What kind of space is most suitable for people's needs? Ma and his team have been thinking and studying these philosophical architectural problems. Their ideas have gone beyond architecture.

In the office space of MAD architecture firm, there is a small fish tank, which won an international prize. "We filmed the activities of fish with a video camera, analyzed their behaviors in the computer, found some habits of them, and designed a fish tank according to their daily needs. But then we thought, what does fish have to do with fish tanks? Compared with indifference to rivers and lakes, any kind of fish tank is a restriction on fish. From living in caves to tents, and now living in square box buildings all over the city, every technological progress not only improves people's living conditions, but also restricts the communication between man and nature and their free life. After we have such a high level of technology, what we should think about is how to make people live more openly, how to use technology, respect people's choices, and let space have its own personality as much as possible, not restrictions. "

Three feet of cold

Ma and his partners have always adhered to the same design idea, whether they became famous in new york because of the "floating island" transformation scheme of New York World Trade Center, won the first prize in the international competition of Shanghai National Software Export Base, won the first prize in the conceptual design competition of Shanghai Modern Art Park (S-MAP), including the recent victory in the international design competition of Guangzhou Biological Island Plaza, and the right to design the "Absolute Tower".

But at home, it takes a process for the market to know them. In recent years, they have completed 60 or 70 projects, and only a few have started construction. Ma Yan Song said: "For us, it is more important to spread our ideas, and buildings can meet people's needs as much as possible. This is the inevitable future. The most important tradition in China is strong creativity, which is a very important factor that determines the continuous development of our nation. The creation of architecture lies not in form, let alone imitation, but in achieving the greatest significance with the most efficient efforts. Our architecture is by no means pursuing novelty and strangeness in form, but creating the future. "

In Beijing Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, there is a very interesting exhibit-"Hadid's Future Home". This is the last work of Ma Yan Song in Hadid's office. Ma Yan Song said, "My teacher Hadid very much hopes that we can set up our own company and realize our pursuit. But we should not only pursue artistry, but also see the realistic problems in China. As architects in China, we should pay more attention to our contribution to society. "

For Ma and his company, success is a long-term accumulation and pursuit; Similarly, if we want to get the same recognition in China and internationally, we must break many past standards and make continuous efforts to make the China market have a newer understanding of architecture.

China Architects International Organization

MAD architects have a spacious space in Beijing. Some employees concentrate on their work in front of the computer, while others communicate freely. English has become the common language of communication. Among the three partners, there are American and Japanese, and the blond employees cooperate with China employees. In an interview with a reporter, another Canadian architect made a special trip to MAD architecture office to find a job.

Because Canadian and European design projects travel between China and Europe and the United States, it has become the working way of a new generation of trapeze architects. At home, they also suddenly got many tasks including real estate development projects. Ma said that in the 1970s, people's creativity began to explode, including architecture, music and painting, and the younger generation in China began to shine on the international stage.

In the office space of MAD architecture firm, there are no doors, no partitions between tables, nothing that hinders communication, and even no national boundaries and languages. Partners come from different nationalities and employees come from different countries. They work hard for the same goal, that is, architecture makes people's lives more free.

The growth course of international architect Ma.

Ma graduated from Yale University with a master's degree in architecture and Samuel J. Excellent design award. In 2006, he won the Young Architect Award of new york Architectural Association, and in 20001year, he won the AIA architectural research award. He has worked in Zaha Hadid's office in London and Peter Eisenman's office in new york. In 2004, he established MAD's Beijing office and taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He also gave speeches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the new york Architecture Union. The architectural works include the award-winning works of international competitions widely discussed by the international architectural community, the absolute super-high-rise apartment in Toronto, Canada (completed in 2009), the first prize-winning works of floating island-rebuilding New York World Trade Center in 2002, the first prize of Guangzhou Bio Island Solar System Plaza International Competition (completed in 2008), the first prize of Shanghai Modern Art Park (S-MAP) conceptual design competition, and the first prize of "Net+Bar" conceptual design competition. Installation works "Fish Tank" and "Ink Ice" were exhibited in China Art Museum and China Millennium Monument respectively. "Floating Island-Reconstruction of New York World Trade Center" has also been hotly debated by the architectural circles at home and abroad, and has been collected by China Art Museum.