WǔHAN189 D LIANXU TI 武汉1890连续体 WUHAN1890 CONTINUUM SUNAC nfr址 CALLISONRTKL A DESIGN CONSULTANCY OF ARCAOIS Dear China Sunac Iron Works is a prestigious project with wide ranging implications to Wuhan Greater China and perhaps the world and we at CallisonRTKL are appreciative of your faith in our talents and the opportunity to be your partner in Master-Planning New and Historic Architecture Interior- Architecture and Landscape-Architecture. We came to name this project Continuum-1890 because the design brief tells the tale of a site with a 130-year history of manufacturing and innovation being the first Iron Works in China.But the site is not to be cleared of its history and another new use replace it instead the site is to continue its role as a site for innovation arts and culture within Wuhan its manufacturing buildings of the 1960's-2000's repurposed to cooperative use by the munity and new small format offices added to encourage creative businesses cultural industry artists and forward thinking minds to innovation over the next 130 years.Thus the site is a Continuum of use adapting and evolving but not destroyed in favor of the new. Our concept is at once simple but profoun...