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John Hill | 04.03.2025

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Architect Liu Jiakun, a native of Chengdu, China, has been named the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, long considered architecture's highest honor. Today's announcement describes Liu as an architect who continues to practice and reside in Chengdu, “prioritizing the everyday...


John Hill | 24.01.2025

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Safdie Architects and Kerry Properties have announced the completion of the second phase of Habitat Qinhuangdao, a complex on the coast of the Bohai Sea, 200 miles (320 km) east of Beijing, China, that consists of 1,800 residences spread across 40 acres (16 hectares).


John Hill | 29.11.2023

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The Tangshan Quarry Park in Nanjing, China, designed by Shanghai's Z+TStudio, has been named the winner of the 2023 Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Prize, awarded at the 12th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture Biennial in Barcelona.


John Hill | 09.01.2023

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MVRDV has won the competition to design the new central library for Wuhan, China, describing their winning design as a "three-faced flowing shape [that] celebrates the position of the 'city of 100 lakes' at the confluence of two rivers."


John Hill | 02.11.2022

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Ennead Architects has released renderings of its competition-winning design for Wuxi Art Museum, proposed for Shangxianhe Wetland Park in the port city of Wuxi, China.


John Hill | 25.10.2022

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Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed renderings of its competition-winning design for a large sports complex for Hangzhou's Future Science and Technology Cultural District.


John Hill | 23.06.2022

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Baiziwan Social Housing is a large 12-building project spanning six blocks near Beijing's CBD. The design by Ma Yansong's MAD Architects accommodates 4,000 families.


21.06.2022

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Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) announced that the firm was victorious in the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre in China's Shaanxi province.


John Hill | 04.06.2021

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced a new exhibition that will open in the fall: Reuse, Renew, Recycle: Recent Architecture from China will feature eight projects by "a new generation of Chinese architects that rethink existing definitions of social, cultural, and...


John Hill | 30.04.2021

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LUO studio's Zheshui Natural Library in Shanxi Province has won the top prize in the architectural design category of the 2021 Design Educates Awards, which are given out by Laka Foundation, the non-profit organization and international network "focused on social impact via design and...


John Hill | 16.09.2020

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The spiraling He Art Museum (HEM) designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando will open to the public on the first day of October.


John Hill | 17.06.2020

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Raffles City Chongqing, a mixed-use project in the center of Chongqing, China, recently opened the skybridge that caps four of the project's eight towers.


John Hill | 31.01.2020

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Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected in an international competition to design the new headquarters for smartphone manufacturer OPPO in Shenzhen, China.


John Hill | 26.09.2019

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Beijing Daxing International Airport, located nearly 50 kilometers south of the city center, was inaugurated on Wednesday. The design by Zaha Hadid Architects resembles a starfish when seen from above.


John Hill | 14.01.2019

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Chicago's Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has won the design competition for the Shimao Shenzhen Longgang master plan and its associated tower, Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center, which will reach approximately 700 meters (2,300 feet).


John Hill | 01.02.2018

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London's Serpentine Galleries and Beijing's WF CENTRAL have announced a co-commission for the first Serpentine Pavilion outside of London. Designed by Jiakun Architects, the pavilion will open in May 2018.


John Hill | 15.06.2017

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New York's Julliard School has unveiled renderings for its first overseas campus, the Tianjin Julliard School, designed by Diller Scofidio + Refnro and located in Tianjin's Yujiapu Pilot Free Trade Zone.


John Hill | 04.10.2016

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Projects in Bangladesh, China, Denmark, Iran, and Lebanon are recipients of the prestigious award that is given out every three years "to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture."


John Hill | 26.02.2016

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About a year and a half after Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for an end to "weird architecture" in China, the country's State Council issued an official directive that says no to "oversized, xenocentric, weird" architecture devoid of cultural tradition.


John Hill | 07.01.2016

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Munich's HENN has won first prize in a competition to design a nearly 200-meter-tall office tower for software company Kingdee in Shenzhen, China.


John Hill | 05.03.2015

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Ennead Architects won the commission for the Shanghai Planetarium branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (SSTM) with a design inspired by the astronomic principle of orbital motion.