Flowing Style of Beijing Galaxy SOHO Complex Earns Nomination For Design of the Year Award
January 25, 2013 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis 
Galaxy SOHO mixed-use building complex in Beijing, China. Photo courtesy of Iwan Baan.
Having a unique flowing design with a curving unified feel, the newly completed Beijing Galaxy SOHO mixed-use complex has just been nominated for the London Design Museum’s 2013 Design of the Year Award.
Galaxy SOHO building complex. Photo by Iwan Baan.
This will be the museum’s sixth annual Design of the Year Award exhibition, which will run from March 20, 2013 to July 7, 2013, with the museum saying the exhibition will “compile the most original and exciting designs, prototypes, and designers in the world today.”
The category winners and overall winner will be announced to the public on April 17, 2013. The design awards span seven categories: architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphics, transport, and product.
The SOHO Galaxy complex – designed by Zaha Hadid Architects – has been nominated in the award’s architecture category.
What’s unique about the SOHO Galaxy’s design is its natural flowing structure. The complex is a melding of four building spaces that blend together and then pull apart, connecting with bridges and plateaus, “creating a world of fluidity within,” said Zaha Hadid Architects.