Magazin

Neri&Hu Design and Research Office | 20.03.2020

Works

Junshan Cultural Center is located just outside of Beijing in the midst of the undulating mountain ranges and meandering rivers near the Miyun Reservoir.


Crossboundaries | 19.03.2020

Works

Crossboundaries' latest installation is part of the group exhibition for 2019 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale themed around potential models for future schools and the possibilities of prefabrication and modularization in the realm of educational buildings.


John Hill | 17.03.2020

Film

The Junshan Cultural Center is a clubhouse and sales center catering to a development north of Beijing, near the Miyun Reservoir. A short film takes viewers above, around, and inside Neri&Hu's...


OPEN Architecture | 10.03.2020

Works

Along the banks of Shanghai's Huangpu River, five decommissioned aviation fuel tanks once stood abandoned on an empty industrial site. Today, these tanks and the surrounding site—forgotten relics of the city's former Longhua Airport—have been given new life and relevancy by OPEN Architecture.


René Ammann | 24.02.2020

Number

Estimated decline in properties sold in the 30 biggest Chinese cities during the week...


John Hill | 31.01.2020

Headlines

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


René Ammann | 29.01.2020

Number

Number of temporary hospitals China is building in less than two weeks in the town of Wuhan to treat thousands of patients infected with the coronavirus: 2


BAU (Brearley Architects + Urbanists) | 14.01.2020

Works

The Jiangyin Greenway belongs to a growing movement in China towards healthy, sustainable transportation and urban enjoyment. Infrastructure of this scale has an opportunity – or more correctly a responsibility – to create meaningful places in the city. It is also seen as an opportunity...


John Hill | 10.01.2020

Found

With the Chenghua Party School in Chengdu, China, Drawing Architecture Studio — the Beijing studio of architect Li Han and designer Hu Yan — has transferred their distinctive, colorful wall murals to a glass ceiling that divides and enlivens the school's three-story atrium.


Eduard Kögel | 03.01.2020

Abstimmung für Bau des Jahres

Taiyuan is the largest city in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, where about a quarter of Chinese coal is mined. There are over three million inhabitants in Taiyuan city centre and the city has long been known for its high levels of air pollution. In recent years, air quality has...


Studio Qi Architects | 02.01.2020

Works

ANNSO HILL, located in Heshun, Yunnan, is a drastic L-shaped architecture situated alongside an alleyway market. It begins with a compressed street-front zone on a steep slope and ends on a gently reclined hillside aligned with beautiful tall trees.


AIM Architecture | 11.12.2019

Works

Some may question why a city like Shanghai — which only began its large-scale urbanization in the 1990s and is still undergoing rapid growth — needs to be concerned about regeneration. 


ARCHSTUDIO | 27.11.2019

Works

The project is an office building of a logistics company, located in an industrial park on the outskirts of a city in Northern China.


John Hill | 20.11.2019

Found

Leeza SOHO, a 45-story office tower designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, was completed this week in Beijing's new Fengtai business district. At 194.15 meters, the twisting atrium is the world's tallest, besting Burj Al Arab Jumeirah by nearly 15 meters.


World-Architects | 25.10.2019

Insight

The Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles fair took place over four days in late August at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, China. World-Architects, working with Messe Frankfurt Hong Kong, organized some "Talks and Tours" at ITSH and also interviewed two highly talented...


GB SPACE | 15.10.2019

Works

La chansonnière is a high-end French restaurant designed by GB SPACE, featuring new media immersive dining experience. This project is located on the first floor, block B, Jiuxianqiao language and cultural center, Chaoyang district, Beijing.


John Hill | 26.09.2019

Headlines

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.


Atelier TeamMinus | 19.09.2019

Works

Sitting in the center of the Gujiaying horticulture village in China, the building features a piazza made of traditional tiles bending upwards, revealing the subterranean art space below.


Eduard Kögel | 02.09.2019

Abstimmung für Bau des Jahres

China has a variety of natural landscapes ranging from dry sandy deserts to tropical islands and snow-capped mountains. Little by little, places are discovered and then developed so as to be suitable for tourism projects. Depending on the location or concept, large infrastructures or exclusive...


NODE (Nansha Original DEsign) | 20.08.2019

Works

This is a semi-propositional experimental underground development. The ground level must be spared for public space, while the underground level may be used as creative office and public service facilities.


MOZHAO ARCHITECTS | 07.08.2019

Works

This project hopes to provide a dynamic public space for workers, residents, teachers, students and plant lovers; the traditional planting culture of Shajing is passed down in a new form, which is also a media for community building.


Atelier Chen Haoru | 03.07.2019

Works

This project is located in the western mountainous area of Hangzhou, a natural village with 140 peasant households. The main building materials are bamboo that grows on the site and pebbles picked from the rivulet.


BAU | 26.06.2019

Works

The project is located in Tianshan Road, the new commercial boulevard in Hongqiao, one of Shanghai’s high activity districts. It is surrounded by brightly lit shopping malls built this century. This development replaces and expands on the existing state run cinema centre on the site. The...


Bengo Studio | 18.06.2019

Works

The Street-Wall Gallery on Yuyuan Road is an art gallery designed for passersby. We conceived this ultra-thin art gallery, which clings closely to the wall, with a glass slot of 4.2 meters long and 30 millimeters high.


René Ammann | 13.05.2019

Number

Price of a niche for an urn in a private columbarium "in the best position" in Hong Kong: €204,000 ($229,000) 


New Office Works | 01.05.2019

Works

Growing Up is a pavilion located in the West Kowloon Cultural District. It is the winning entry of the inaugural Hong Kong Young Architects & Designers Competition, which was launched in April 2017.


René Ammann | 29.04.2019

Number

Amount a Chinese blogger was fined for saying a Beijing office complex designed by Zaha Hadid Architects had bad feng shui: 200,000 yuan (€26,000)


Drawing Architecture Studio | 25.04.2019

Works

Designed by Drawing Architecture Studio for a couple, Free Balcony An is an interior design that transforms a typical two-bedroom apartment at a commercial housing community in Beijing to a home both carrying the spirit of classical space and fulfilling the needs of modern life.


Zhang Hua Architecture | 15.04.2019

Works

Yu Qingcheng is a world famous original clay sculpture artist who is renowned in China and oversea, the unique style strike out a new line for himself.


Yiduan Shanghai Interior Design | 12.04.2019

Works

Staggered spaces derived from containers present combination of the solid and void.


Unitinno Architectural Technology Development Company Limited | 01.04.2019

Works

Meili Primary School is being reconstructed to accommodate more students, with a lightweight prefab school built for temporary use during reconstruction.


DPLUS STUDIO | 26.03.2019

Works

For the cloud center, located in the geometric center of a newly built office industrial park, we built an outdoor climbing path. The starting point faces the green square on the first floor, and through a formal entrance you can climb to the second floor and then to the roof.


One Design Inc | 13.02.2019

Works

The Zhelin New Town Administration and Community Service Center was completed in mid-2018 in Shanghai's Fengxian District. Su Shengliang of Schran Images recently photographed the building.


Mecanoo | 12.02.2019

Works

Located in the Shenzhen's eastern Longgang district, the Cultural Centre contributes a rich and varied cultural programme housed in an iconic urban connector.


Bernard Tschumi Architects | 30.01.2019

Works

Construction has been completed on the Tianjin Binhai Exploratorium, a 33,000-square- meter (355,200-square-foot) museum structure in Tianjin, China. Designed in 2013-2014, the Exploratorium is set to open in Fall 2019.


John Hill | 14.01.2019

Headlines

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).