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BAM Landscape Studio of the Year at 2024 Architizer A+ Award
BAM receives a Special Mention as the Best Landscape Studio of the Year at the 12th Architizer A+ Award. The jury applauds BAM for it's unconventional and transdisciplinary design of the urban landscape.
WLA AI Lab Opens in Shanghai
世界顶尖科学家社区人工智能实验室在上海建成
BAM designed the Lab’s AI-inspired landscape including the ground level, L3 roof deck, top roof garden and art installations.
BAM为上海世界顶尖科学家社区人工智能实验室提供景观设计。
BAM "Best 100" winner at Kyoto Design Awards
Kyoto Global Design Awards in partnership with Global Sustainable Association selects Ballistic Architecture Machine for the “Best 100” design studio list of the year 2023. A designer or studio that is nominated for KGDA "Best 100" can participate only upon invitation by the committee. BAM “sets a high standard in the field” according to illustrious jury board.
BAM - Outstanding Design Firm of the Year!
Asia Pacific Design Center selects BAM as an Outstanding Design Firm of the Year 2023. What’s more, two of BAM’s recent projects, MAHA Residential Garden and Longking Pro-Environmental Campus, receive the highest honors with the Landscape Project of the Year Award.
BAM Scores Third Grand Prix du Design Win!
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. But three times, in our case, is a humble testament to our unwavering commitment to excellence. BAM projects earn nine international awards from 1,200 entries worldwide.
BAM Jury Winner at Architizer A+ Awards
BAM's newest and colorful Tianjin 4A Sports Park wins the coveted Jury Award at the 2023 Architizer A+ Award. The jury selected the project from hundreds others praising the innovative Play & Learn interactive water feature designed to educate children about environmental issues.
Tianjin 4A Sports Park Landscape Project of the Year
BAM’s colorful and innovative Sports Park in Tianjin steals the show receiving Grand Prix International Award for Landscape as Landscape Project of the Year, along with Platinum Awards recognizing its exceptional integration of landscape and water elements, and the innovative nature of its concept.
ART FIELD NANHAI
BAM delivers two ripping swings on Xiqiao Mountain for regional art festival 'Art Field Nanhai.'
A+ AWARD FOR MAHA BEIJING
BAM has picked up another A+ Award in 2022 for the MAHA Beijing Residential Gardens. Note from jury: 'We loved the distinct atmospheres that characterized this project -- so many different elegant areas to explore!'
Yixi Talk on Sanlitun
BAM delivered our second blockbuster Yixi Talk, this time discussing the Gongtibeilu and Sanlitunlu intersection in Beijing.
Longking Campus Wins Grands Prix du Design Gold award
Longking Campus Phase 1, shortlisted for Architizer's A+ Award for Landscape and Water, has been awarded the Gold Medal by the Grands Prix du Design.
CRland Life Sciences Campus wins Gold
Ballistic Architecture Machine is awarded Gold in the Grands Prix du Design for the CR Land Life Sciences Campus featuring medicinal gardens and granite water table.
Grands Prix du Design Gold Award for Rongchuang
Congratulations to the Rongchuang Tianjin Headquarters tower for their new Award Winning BAM landscape!
BAM at Roca Gallery
BAM was invited to discuss the Boajingang Waste to Energy Project underway in Shanghai at the Roca Gallery in Shanghai.
Legend Jiangbei Container Showroom Wins Gold
BAM's landscape for the Jiangbei Container Showroom has received two distinctions in 2022: the project was shortlisted in the coveted Architecture + Color category for Architizer's A+ Awards and went on to win the Gold Award in the Grands Prix du Design.
Platinum Award for Daxing
BAM is honored to receive the highest award from the Grands Prix du Design jury for the Shoukai Vanke Center Beijing.
BAM for Dezeen 2021 Studio of the Year
BAM is nominated for architecture office of the year 2021 by the Dezeen Awards. BAM was longlisted along with 21 studios that were selected from a pool of international firms representing 86 countries and is one of the two China-based practices to make it in the list! Winners will be announced in November! Stay tuned!
BAM wins 6 prizes at the international Grand Prix du Design Awards!
BAM's flagship projects Guomao Intersection and Daxing Park win Gold! Time Valley and Toranomon Rooftop Terrace get Silver and Buji playground steals the Bronze at the Grand Prix!
BAM WINS the 2021 Architizer A+ Awards
Daxing Park, receives the ultimate recognition winning the coveted "Popular Choice Award"!
BAM published in URBAN LANDSCAPE
3 of BAM's flagship projects are featured in a brand-new international publication "URBAN LANDSCAPE"! Translated into English, French, German and Spanish and distributed in more than 40 countries, the book presents works by leading design studio's from all over the world!
BAM on the Boards: A Chimney Vase
解锁中:一个烟囱形花瓶的故事
Click here for a sneak peak at one piece of BAM's top secret project in the works!
点此让我们来看看BAM正在进行的一个绝密项目!
BAM IS HIRING | BAM招聘
New JOB postings here! Join a multidisciplinary crew of ambitious designers famous for innovative urban landscape. BAM offices in Beijing and Shanghai are expanding their teams!
Apply now!
EDITION Toranomon Hotel: BAM designs Tokyo’s newest rooftop terrace!
虎之门艾迪逊酒店:BAM设计东京最新户外露台!
The Tokyo EDITION, Toranomon, the city’s newest luxury hotel designed by Kengo Kuma with the vision of Ian Schrager, opened its doors to first guests October 20, 2020. BAM had the honor to design the hotel’s highlight, a rooftop terrace overlooking Tokyo’s iconic skyline. Read on!
虎之门艾迪逊酒店是东京最近新建成的奢华酒店,由隈研吾结合伊恩·施拉格的愿景设计完成,并于2020年10月20日开放迎接了首批顾客。BAM很荣幸的为这座酒店设计了一个颇具特色的户外露台,在这里能够远眺东京标志性天际线。继续读
Daxing Park in Landscape Architecture Aotearoa
BAM北京大兴公园项目,被新西兰景观设计师协会杂志收录
BAM Daxing Park featured in the Journal of New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects.
BAM北京大兴公园项目被新西兰景观设计师协会杂志收录。
BAM TAKES ON BJ CBD
BAM迎战北京CBD
WATCH NOW and learn how BAM developed a landscape design strategy to bring nature to the doorsteps of the CBD, one of Beijing’s most iconic international districts.
收看视频,了解 BAM 是如何将自然带入北京 CBD 这个最具标志性的国际化区域之一的。
BAM's WINNING ENTRY FOR SUSAS 2019 OPEN FOR VISITORS IN SHANGHAI!
BAM's "Carbonized Earth Garden" was the only piece selected from the winning entries to be built on-site! READ ON
BAM WINS DESIGN COMPETITON FOR NEW SHANGHAI WTE PLANT
BAM is excited for our newest project typology which takes us into a headlong journey with one of the most important but never talked about urban landscapes: the dump. The new Waste to Energy facility should be unveiled some time in 2021, stay tuned for more!
DAN GASS SPEAKS AT TONGJI UNIVERSITY
BAM was invited to participate in a forum exploring one of BAM's newest research interests, the Belt and Road. Dan's talk proposed a fractal approach to urbanism, wherein the biggest planning efforts have the capacity to implement detail level changes.
BAM FEATURED IN TOPOS
BAM is featured opposite Martha Schwartz in Talent vs Mastermind section of Germany's Topos magazine.
SAVE CHAOTIANMEN
Jake Walker and Dan Gass gave a talk on BAM's second major urban initiative, the Save Chaotianmen academic studio, which was taught at the University of Toronto at the Bentu One Forum in Beijing's Dongcheng District. BAM Founders were delighted to find their faculty mentor Buzz Spector in attendance.
ALLISON DAILEY SCAD LECTURE ONLINE
Tune in to Dailey's fantastic talk on the role of intuition in the design process, and hear about some of the work of the Machine from one of it's founders.
QUARRY HOTEL FORUM
Dan Gass presented the design process of the famous quarry hotel project to a media audience at the Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental.
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH LECTURE
Allison Dailey participated in the Landscape Architecture Symposium at University of Guelph presenting many of BAM's projects and her own variation of Intuition as Method, aka Doodletech.
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"
Wallpaper Interview
Wallpaper China interviews BAM, available on their app July 2018.
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...
Stunning Playscraper Idea from Rising BAM Star Designer
人人都爱天才
BAM’s maxim, “A good idea can come from anywhere,” stands no truer represented than in the story, “Denise Designs." Watch Denise progress from idea to construction with BAM!
BAM 的座右铭,“好创意不问出处”,用今天的人物故事来诠释是再好不过了。接下来,就由 BPM 新闻为大家带来“Denise 的设计故事”。
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!
MAXXI MUSEUM IN ROME
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.
Huffington Post Feature
BAM gets BOOMED!
The Story of BAM
Storytime with "An Illustrated Journey: From Art Installations to Landscapes" Interview featuring famous BAM designer Zdog.
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!
Party Hardy
If you like 'rip your FACE OFF' parties and you LOVE BAM installations then you will go CRAZY for this! BAM designs a stage for the dART party in Beijing.
THE WOMAN IN BAM
Why is BAM almost entirely FEMALE? BPM News covers the hot potato question. The mystery!
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.
Gooood Ramble Interview
The BAM Ramble - BRAMBLE for short - is an interview by Gooood.hk at BAM's office in Beijing.
BAM says "Copying is OK!"
BAM+swire+sino-ocean
BAM is delighted to design two playgrounds inside the unprecedented public park space of Jiuxianqiao Park in Beijing.
RELEASE THE TITAN!
BAM's 100m tall 400m long "Titan" has been released... Is it a monument?! Is it a bridge?! BAM's design process & Titan on BAMTube
Hong Kong Landmark Installation
WuYiShan FLOATS Hit the Streets
supersized 'fengshui'
Mesmerized by supersized 'fengshui' waterball, BAM's centerpiece of "Idea King" Daxing Park
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.
BAMTube
BAM has it's own YouTube channel... BamTube!!!!! Gander at BAM's monument, "Nature Gate," to experience stepping inside the biggest echo-chamber imaginable - with a WATERFALL!
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.