Red Ribbon in Tanghe River Park
In Qinhuangdao, China the Tanghe River Park features a new installation of a red steel bench that runs for half a kilometre through the park.
The Red Ribbon project has won an honor award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and was also selected by readers of Conde Nast Traveller magazine as one of the seven new wonders of the architecture world.
Photos by Kongjian Yu and Cao Yang
yatzer on 27 Mar 2008 at 11:45 am #
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this beautifull post!!
nb on 28 Mar 2008 at 5:31 am #
thanks for sharing this.
the last picture… if it is steel, how does it glow as if light is coming from the inside? wierd.
beth on 28 Mar 2008 at 9:55 am #
did a quick read of the ASLA article – and they call it fiber steel. still can’t find any information on what that means, but it sounds non-traditional.
Louis on 28 Mar 2008 at 1:10 pm #
How do the issue of vandalism dealt with here?
Wouldn’t a concrete structure be more suitable and durable?
Just a thought!
Thanks!
Louis
alex on 29 Mar 2008 at 10:14 am #
Louis is right. i’m a skateboarder, and looking at these pictures, i get excited. i’m sure a million other skaters are too.
Gaile Guevara on 29 Mar 2008 at 11:31 pm #
what an amazing concept! love this beautiful sculptural element
guest on 31 Mar 2008 at 10:35 pm #
the material is fibre glass(same used for making boats), nothing to do with steel.
skating is not possible there
and thats good. The side is also video protected, there are some secutity man sitting in an little office and keep a eye what is happening…
there so many thing made of concrete, we dont need a world made of concrete…
unfortunately, its not any more real red looking, like on the photos.. the sun changed it into more orange
guest 2 on 03 Feb 2009 at 11:34 am #
I highly agree with ‘guest’. We do not need more concrete in this world. It seems as though most sites in the U.S. get “value engineered” down to a point where everything on site is built of items to prevent skateboarding and offer longer durability at the cost of great design. When in fact, if the site is designed in certain ways, skateboarding can be all of excempt from the equation, and with simple maintenance you can achieve the durability of other materials. Kudos to the client for taking a chance and making a wonderful addition to the landscape in China!
guest on 16 Mar 2009 at 5:06 am #
This is a great example of Landscape arch. It can give an area such a new lease of life and it dosn’t have to be over the top and crazy, but is striking, usable, and orginal in design. The red is such a good base colour that enhances the planting in an area that formal colourful planting would look so wrong and out of place.
Lelong on 22 Mar 2010 at 1:08 am #
@Luis and Alex, guess you never been in China. We (I am not chinese) don’t have so many skater here in China and the police is almost everywhere.
But I doubt that fibre glass is better than concret for the enviroment.