by Jerry Elengical Sep 28, 2022
An adaptive reuse venture by DDB Architects Shanghai and BEING STUDIO in Zhejiang Province’s Yaoliang Village has repurposed an old primary school as a picturesque resort.
by Salvatore Peluso Sep 27, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky has conducted 21 interviews with leading Chinese architects. The result is a portrait of a movement that is revolutionising the way of looking at the built environment.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Sep 09, 2022
Designed with the aim of creating an introspective environment, away from the hustle of urban life, the Late Night Kitchen in Shantou, China emulates the desired imagination of tranquillity.
by Jincy Iype Sep 09, 2022
AD Architecture relies on restrained geometries and choreographed illumination to bring alive the sleek and alluring Fietser International Private Clubhouse in Shenzhen, China.
by Jerry Elengical Sep 06, 2022
Mix Architecture has completed this hostel in Anshi Village, within the Sichuan Province of China, using a blend of local materials and techniques that celebrate regional heritage.
by Jerry Elengical Sep 02, 2022
Crowned by a rooftop pool that stretches towards the South China Sea, this library by 3andwich Design / He Wei Studio radiates a “poetic tension” by virtue of its dramatic form.
by Jincy Iype Sep 02, 2022
Described by Wutopia Lab as a “slowly unfolding hand scroll”, the Monologue Art Museum in China with three monoliths placed around a water garden, practices intended introversion.
by Sunena V Maju Aug 20, 2022
Renovating an old factory into a retail store, dongqi Design reimagines retail design as an immersive experience for XC273 by XCOMMONS in Shanghai, China.
by Anushka Sharma Jul 22, 2022
With an urban renewal project for Chengdu Qinglong Lake Wetland Park, the Chinese firm interweaves history into the fabric of urbanisation.
by Jincy Iype Jul 21, 2022
Group of Architects crowns this lakeside restaurant in China with a choreographed cluster of pyramidal frustums, its form an abstracted geometry of the metasequoia trees growing on site.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 06, 2022
The corten steel-clad structure by AZL Architects in Nanjing, China, probes into how conflicting forces in urban character can shape morphology along the lines of geotectonics.
by Jincy Iype Jun 29, 2022
MAD Architects' Baiziwan Social Housing in Beijing connects the neighbourhood to the city, with 4,000 affordable households in 12 Y-shaped towers linked by an elevated public park.
by Jerry Elengical May 14, 2022
The Beijing and New York-based practice has devised a program for a campus centre within a new international school articulated as sculpted volumes separated by landscaped voids.
by Anmol Ahuja Apr 30, 2022
Springing from the ground like a bamboo shoot, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding by UDG Atelier Alpha boasts unique influences and sophisticated programming.
by Jerry Elengical Apr 30, 2022
Carving out functional areas as an organic extension of its lakeside context, the project creates engaging public spaces and intimate exhibition areas linked by ramped walkways.
by Zohra Khan Apr 12, 2022
The Chinese practice has designed 'The House of Remembrance' with features such as a memorial garden and an evocative roof that house a family of three siblings.
by Anmol Ahuja Apr 06, 2022
Designed by locally based WCY Regional Studio, the structure revels in its bare, unadorned materiality, and brings an array of cultural activities together in its spatial sanctum.
by Devanshi Shah Apr 04, 2022
Located on the second-floor terrace of a mall in Shenzhen, China, the school is one of the few places in this area with the possibility of incorporating a large outdoor space into its layout.
by Weili Zhang Mar 22, 2022
A visit to the Wutopia Lab-designed Architectural Model Museum, an innovative and focused new addition to Shanghai’s burgeoning collection of exhibition spaces.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 17, 2022
Spanning a narrow water body in Gulou Waterfront Resort, this latticed wooden structure is defined by intricate joinery and a definitive callback to the region’s cultural roots.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 01, 2022
Designed as an ode to the water village of Jiangnan, Shaoxing, the An Villa uses its internal landscape to manifest nostalgia and memories of rain in its architecture.
by Jincy Iype Feb 04, 2022
Combining an art gallery and hotel, the Tiangang Art Center by SYN Architects has a massive spiralling ramp that enables shifting positions to view art and the surrounding scenery.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 24, 2022
The new UAD Campus in ZITOWN consists of three interlocked cubes sheathed in modular systems of perforated aluminium and UHPC, to demonstrate the beauty of prefabricated design.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 17, 2022
Chinese architecture practice YI+MU Design Office infuses new life into a prominent former textile factory in Jinan, China, by reinventing it as a sales and exhibition centre.
by Anmol Ahuja Jan 05, 2022
Breaking new ground in retail and café design, Zolaism Café by B.L.U.E Architecture Studio innovates in materiality to append its structure and introduce a natural reminiscence.
by Jincy Iype Dec 15, 2021
The Chapel of Sound by OPEN Architecture sits one with nature as frozen music, a rippling concrete form resembling a natural rock formation in China, emulating the shape of sound.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Dec 04, 2021
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Meng Yan of URBANUS about how to turn seemingly impossible, ugly, and negative conditions into something positive.
by Jincy Iype Dec 02, 2021
Shanghai United Design Group intentionally kept the Dysis Chapel of Poly Shallow Sea in Hainan, China, non-religious in nature, highlighting instead, enduring spirituality and romance.
by Jincy Iype Nov 29, 2021
Introspective and spiritual in approach, Studio 10’s Hall of Immortality in the Longshan Cemetery in rural China is a triangular concrete monolith symbolising the inescapability of death.
by Jincy Iype Nov 23, 2021
Clothed in canary yellow, PIG Design’s NEOBIO in Shenzhen, China, is inspired by fantastical childhood memories, as a refreshing departure from streamlined, grey workspaces.
by Jincy Iype Oct 20, 2021
Imagined as a museum of clouds, the borderless kindergarten design by X + Living is reminiscent of unrestrained childhood fantasies and cotton candy dreamscapes.
by Jincy Iype Oct 16, 2021
Immersed into the powerfully natural hills of Tai’an, China, The Hometown Moon by Syn Architects is a womb-like ceremony hall and chapel that revels in romantic symbolism.
by Jincy Iype Sep 25, 2021
An elevated timber bridge connects the scattered, double brick-clad vertical pods topped with skylights to form Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou, a hostel complex in China’s Hebei province.
by Weili Zhang Sep 20, 2021
Weili Zhang visits the Five Dragons Temple in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, China, where refurbishment was completed in 2016 by Wang Hui of URBANUS.
by Jincy Iype Sep 15, 2021
aoe's Guilin Lebei Homestay Hotel features raised wooden pods linked by a winding walkway strewn within a scenic site in Guilin city, with a flowing creek and greenwood for company.
by Zohra Khan Sep 14, 2021
The Yang Liping Performing Arts Center in Dali, China, features a porous, partly sunken structure with a gargantuan organic roof, designed by the Beijing-based studio.
by Jincy Iype Sep 02, 2021
Sans ornamentation, Vermilion Zhou's adaptive reuse of a Victorian clubhouse in Beijing, China, into the all-white Song Art Museum unifies oriental and western design thought.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Aug 30, 2021
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Dong Gong of Vector Architects about the importance of throwing away what he knows well to keep exploring architecture’s new territories.
by Jincy Iype Aug 12, 2021
Wutopia Lab’s Duoyun Bookstore in China embodies fairytale lightness in its four volumes clad in white continuous perforated aluminium panel walls, united by a central courtyard.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Dec 16, 2020
Architect Li Xinggang of Atelier Li Xinggang talks to Vladimir Belogolovsky on his Gymnasium at the New Campus of Tianjin University, inspired by the movement of the human body.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 26, 2020
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Wang Hui about his dream of becoming an architect in order to change everyday life around him.
by STIRworld Sep 09, 2020
Facing Mt. Luofu and Taiping Mountain in Canton, Guangdong, the Chinese medicine exhibition centre utilises ‘silvering’ aluminium boards to mimic the mountainscape.
by Jincy Iype Mar 05, 2020
The Chinese architectural firm converts a former, abandoned church into an abode for poetry, housing 1000 books in various languages in its metallic, revamped interiors.
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