BAM NATURE IS AN IDEA 自然是个概念
BAM grapples with culturally diverse ideas about Nature. How we perceive Nature is rooted in the way cultures define the self.
BAM正在努力应对塑造我们建筑环境的大自然的多元文化理念。
International design dialogue, part of the 2022 Guangzhou Design Week (12.09-12.12) spoke with BAM co-founder Daniel Gass on values of design, landscape vision and evolution of BAM.
IDD世界领先设计对话，是广州设计周联合GIA广州设计周全球伙伴联盟中的中外设计领先机构、组织和媒体发起的一项对话世界设计领先者的国际设计交流计划，IDD世界领先设计对话以「MASTER MIND巨匠的思索」为思想探寻的的主旨方向，希冀通过与世界领先设计巨匠对话，探索世界领先设计思想，以世界领先推动中国领先，以中国领先影响世界设计。
BAM imagines Guomao, Beijing’s notoriously problemmatic traffic interchange, and understands the solution to be foremost within the power of landscape design.
BAM在北京商务中心区（CBD）的核心，重新设想了一个超级繁华并不断扩张的交叉路口。
The "roughness" of the design stimulates a dialogue of active associations in the human mind.
里帝欧餐厅帮你思考！？“粗糙”的设计激起一种人内心中活跃的想法与设计之间的对话
BAM started as a group of like-minded individuals in architecture school interested in installation art and publication as a means to create and activate community.
BAM也不适合被任何特定的艺术或设计领域所定义。
Residents of Buji are looking forward to spending time in BAM's landscape which debuts "Playscraper."
Over the past 10 years BAM’s admittedly dumb strategy of "just say yes" has resulted in a portfolio of strange, exuberant works with seemingly incomprehensible breadth.
The original "Indigo Playground" is proportioned using the Golden Ratio.
The Finite/Infinite Mirror Garden. Finite on the outside, infinite on the inside.
What brought BAM to China? What were BAM's biggest obstacles when starting a career in China? What are BAM's new videos about?
A public fountain in the heart of modern industrial China.
"LANDSCAPE VISION" is a first-edition pioneering manual that charts the aesthetic principles of landscape design.
BAM is hot on the bull market! BPM News asks people right off the streets, "What did YOU think of BAM's show?"
全程火力！全面覆盖！ 本次播报的主题是：BAM 回顾展。
There are five clear differences between BAM and other architectural design companies.
明天，我们可以变身牙刷公司!
Chinese culture developed out of a garden culture.
BAM on the future of urban playground design: redefining the terms “landscape” and “playground.” Featuring the uncommon idea, “art is play!”
Women at BAM get down and dirty, rolling up sleeves to get the work done! Plus 'BAM on Family' and 'Reality versus Ballistic Architecture Machine.'
BAM 的女性撸起袖子来工作！这就是“Down & Dirty”。另外, 现实 vs BAM, BAM 的家庭观。
Although poised to be one of China’s leading design practices with a special focus on landscape architecture, BAM continues along divergent paths, pushing farther into the depths of design.
虽然BAM一直致力于成为中国领先的景观设计专业设计事务所之一，但它沿着不同的路径前进，并将其推向更深入的设计领域。
The process of developing two different designs for a 100m tall monument-bridge.
A fully supported avian habitat green roof structure.
美国纽约市曼哈顿区 高盛总部Biornis-Aesthetope. 完全满足鸟类栖息地要求的屋顶花园结构
BAM delivers two ripping swings on Xiqiao Mountain for regional art festival 'Art Field Nanhai.'
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!'
BAM delivered our second blockbuster Yixi Talk, this time discussing the Gongtibeilu and Sanlitunlu intersection in Beijing.
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.
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.
Congratulations to the Rongchuang Tianjin Headquarters tower for their new Award Winning BAM landscape!
BAM was invited to discuss the Boajingang Waste to Energy Project underway in Shanghai at the Roca Gallery in Shanghai.
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.
BAM is honored to receive the highest award from the Grands Prix du Design jury for the Shoukai Vanke Center Beijing.
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'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!
Daxing Park, receives the ultimate recognition winning the coveted "Popular Choice Award"!
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!
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！
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!
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
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。
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 "Carbonized Earth Garden" was the only piece selected from the winning entries to be built on-site! READ ON
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!
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 is featured opposite Martha Schwartz in Talent vs Mastermind section of Germany's Topos magazine.
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.
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.
Dan Gass presented the design process of the famous quarry hotel project to a media audience at the Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental.
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 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.”
"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.
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.
"Dear BAM, I am so excited to know that such a fun Architecture company exists on this planet. Regards, Debbie"
BAM in full throttle out of Beijing and Shanghai with a New York satellite
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...
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”。
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"
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
The definition of Nature is rooted in the way different cultures define themselves. Plus: Connections and disconnections between landscape, art, nature, culture.
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 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.
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!
The Titan hits top of the charts in Archinect's 13 Most Viewed Projects in 2013. Favorite comment: "When did architecture go on crack?"
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.
Storytime with "An Illustrated Journey: From Art Installations to Landscapes" Interview featuring famous BAM designer Zdog.
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!
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.
Why is BAM almost entirely FEMALE? BPM News covers the hot potato question. The mystery!
Golden Egg Bar is featured in the July issue of VISION magazine and the Paris-based magazine, Décoration Internationale. And that's not all!
Daniel Gass, Zhang Yuan, and Jake Walker are honored to teach architectural design this semester at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
The BAM Ramble - BRAMBLE for short - is an interview by Gooood.hk at BAM's office in Beijing.
BAM is delighted to design two playgrounds inside the unprecedented public park space of Jiuxianqiao Park in Beijing.
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
Mesmerized by supersized 'fengshui' waterball, BAM's centerpiece of "Idea King" Daxing Park
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...
BAM's 2009 annual report and the 2010 Q1 report were issued to shareholders this week.
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 tells the story, "The Empress's New Shoes," through architecture with Markus Jatch for the 2014 RIBA Windows project in Xintiandi, Shanghai.
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!
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 Carstands have been picked up by news sources all over! See what they're saying in Italy or on car blog "Auto Motto".
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.
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.
Check out the May issue of CASE DE ABITARE for interview by Li Difei on L'Idiot Restaurant.
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 "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
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.
Bilbao architecture publication features BAM's design for L'Idiot Restaurant and profiles the firm.
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。
New book by Nadia Amoroso published by Thames and Hudson features several BAM projects.
Woody Allen attempts to steal another large head of celery.
