by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jan 13, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky interviews Yung Ho Chang about his father Zhang Kaiji, a long-time Chief Architect at the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design and Research.
by Amarjeet Singh Tomar Jan 09, 2023
The Dong Fureng House Museum, reinstated in a listed brick-wood building, commemorates the life and legacy of the eminent economist of the same name.
by Jincy Iype Dec 17, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR's selection of sculptural concrete architecture built this year, that created contemporary forms of fancy, at once poetic, fluid, theatrical, and powerful.
by Jerry Elengical Dec 12, 2022
Providing glimpses of idyllic rural living near Chongqing, China, for wine brand Joybo, the project comprises concrete, steel, and glass structures hinting at vernacular archetypes.
by Jerry Elengical Dec 03, 2022
On the fringes of Hangzhou, China, this centuries-old residence has been bestowed with a new purpose, merging its traditional architectural roots with neat contemporary flourishes.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 26, 2022
Comprising four stone masonry-clad volumes linked by swooping hyperboloid roofs, the cultural complex in Zibo, Shandong Province, China, blends traditional and modernist references.
by Jincy Iype Nov 21, 2022
MUDA-Architects follows a theme of "reading in nature" for this lakeside bookstore in Chengdu, China, with its dynamic yet austere form emulating a book falling from the sky.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 11, 2022
The Miro Store of Duoyun Bookstore in the city of Yancheng, creates a narrative based on the work of Italian artist Cristina Làstrego to infuse an ethereal ambience to retail design.
by Jincy Iype Nov 11, 2022
Domain Architects reveals the understated value of existing buildings with the renovation of an abandoned primary school in rural China, now transformed into a serene luxury hotel.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 09, 2022
In the city of Changsha, this multifaceted cyberpunk-style recreational space has been described as an "offline social entertainment metaverse” born from an explosion of design.
by Pallavi Mehra Nov 09, 2022
The one-of-a-kind Wuliang Interstice campus in China is conceptualised keeping in mind the local climate, and is inspired by the natural canyon on which it is located.
by Jincy Iype Oct 14, 2022
Ma Yansong conceived the first completed building of the Quzhou Sports Park in China as a “piece of land art”; upon completion the complex will be the world’s largest earth-sheltered one.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 11, 2022
The new retail store for B.C. Glacial Water in Deji Plaza Phase II, Nanjing, transforms the passageway to Deji Art Museum into an unmanned retail space.
by Jincy Iype Oct 08, 2022
The minimal white form of Woyun Platform is designed as a landscape mingling with clouds, catering to locals and city dwellers around China’s mountainous Longmenshan Town.
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.
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