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Zaha Hadid Architects designs Xi’an cultural centre to echo “meandering valleys”

June 22, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Visual of Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre in China

British architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has released visuals of the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre, which win span an eight-lane motorway in Xi’an, China. The proposal, which was the winning entry of a recent competition, is set to be built partly over a road in the new Jinghe New City technology hub to

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MAD aims to “challenge to the status quo” with first social housing project

June 20, 2022 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio MAD has completed its first social housing development, which consists of 12 residential buildings in Beijing connected by raised walkways and a “floating park”. Named Baiziwan, the development near the Central Business District in east Beijing is divided by roads into six areas that contain multiple apartment blocks. The blocks were built around green spaces,

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UAD arranges riverside Shunchang Museum around “urban living room”

June 19, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University has completed a museum in Shunchang, China, featuring a central void that contains a landscaped public plaza. Named Shunchang Museum, the building was created for a local investment and development company on the south bank of the Futun river in Nanping City to celebrate local heritage.

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Geometric metal fixtures feature in Wuhan’s QYF fashion boutique

June 8, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Curved stairs in QYF fashion boutique by Sun Concepts Office

Chinese design studio Sun Concepts Office has accented the pale interior of the QYF boutique in Wuhan with straight, curved and squiggly metal fixtures. The interior’s clean, geometric look is meant to reflect the modern womenswear on offer in the store, which occupies two storeys on a prominent corner plot of Wuhan’s Tianyuan Street. As

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Atmosphere Architects creates optical illusion in Chengdu jewellery store

June 2, 2022 Ali Morris 0

KVK jewellery store Chengdu by Atmosphere Architects with gridded black and white floor and ceiling

Geometric grids cover most of the surfaces in this futuristic jewellery store in Chengdu, China, designed by local studio Atmosphere Architects to play with customers’ spacial perception. Located in the Jingronghui shopping centre in Chegdu’s Jinjiang district, the 180-square-metre concept store belongs to jewellery brand Kill Via Kindness, abbreviated as KVK. The store features a

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Sculptural partitions shape blue-tinged interior of Taste of Dadong restaurant in Shanghai

May 8, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Curved partitions inside blue restaurant

Huge curving walls divide the blue-lit dining spaces inside this restaurant in Shanghai, designed by Chinese studio AD Architecture. Conceived by AD Architecture to deliver an “emotional”, dream-like dining experience, Taste of Dadong is steeped in an inky-blue light that seeps from LED panels in the walls and hidden strip lighting in the ceiling. Carving

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An aluminium church in China features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

February 3, 2022 Karen Anderson 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a church in Qingdao, China, designed by German-Chinese architecture practice Büro Ziyu Zhuang. Büro Ziyu Zhuang has completed a church featuring walls and a tower made from dozens of spaced-out aluminium ribs. The Chamber Church was designed as part of Chinese property developer Sunac’s Aduo Town project in the Qingdao

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Big Air Shougang set to host ski jumping at Beijing Winter Olympics

February 3, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Big Air Shougang venue at Beijing Winter Olympics

Chinese studio TeamMinus has designed a ski jump to host big air events at the 2022 Winter Olympics on the site of a former steelworks in Beijing. Created as the first permanent venue for big air events in the world, the 60-metre-high ski jump will host the ski and snowboard big air competitions at the Olympics, which begin this week. It

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Dezeen’s guide to the architecture of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

February 2, 2022 Nat Barker 0

With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics due to commence on 4 February, Dezeen rounds up the most architecturally significant venues, including a new stadium by Populous and the world’s first permanent structure for big air extreme snow jumping. The majority of the venues for the upcoming Winter Games are not new, with some built as

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Twelve Chinese architecture projects completing in the Year of the Tiger

February 1, 2022 Christina Yao 0

This week China celebrates Chinese New Year. To mark the festivities, Dezeen has rounded up 12 major Chinese architecture projects set to complete in the Year of the Tiger. DJI Headquarters, Shenzhen, by Foster + Partners Designed by Foster + Partners, this headquarters for a robotics company will have a pair of towers made of stacked

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