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Meilan Music Studio’s “chaotic” interior references the spontaneity of music composition

November 23, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

A grand black piano inside Meilan Music Studio

Chinese firm Domani Architectural Concepts has created a recording studio inside Guangzhou Opera House, featuring an interior covered with jumbled wooden panels that contribute to its acoustic performance. The Meilan Music Studio is located on the fourth floor of the opera house that was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and opened in 2010 on a

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Chinese steel factory transformed into exhibition centre with polycarbonate walls

November 19, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

Architecture office Kokaistudios has slotted a polycarbonate structure into the shell of a former factory in Shanghai, China, to create the Baoshan Exhibition Center. The exhibition space occupies one of few factory buildings that have been preserved on a large industrial site in the Baoshan District, which was once used to produce steel. Shanghai-based Kokaistudios’

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Neri & Hu completes stone-clad whisky distillery in China for Pernod Ricard

November 16, 2021 Christina Yao 0

Outside the Shan-Shui distillery by Neri & Hu

Mount Emei forms the backdrop for this expansive whisky distillery, which Shanghai studio Neri & Hu has completed in China’s Sichuan province. Named Shan-Shui, which translates as mountain water, the distillery occupies a 13-hectare site surrounded by mountains and a winding creek. Shan-Shui was designed by Neri & Hu to house whisky brand Pernod Ricard’s

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eLandscript converts industrial site in China into an urban wetland

November 15, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

A disused power plant and its neglected surroundings in Shenzhen, China have been transformed into a wetland park masterplanned by Hong Kong-based landscape studio eLandscript. Haoxiang Lake Park, which has been shortlisted in the landscape project category of Dezeen Awards 2021, combines the ecological management of a stormwater retention pond with a new bridge, pedestrian

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Monolithic walls enclose “quiet and introverted” Hall of Immortality in China by Studio 10

November 13, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture firm Studio 10 has used tall concrete walls covered in earth-coloured render to envelop this ceremonial hall at Longshan Cemetery in Jiaozuo, China. Named Hall of Immortality, the space of contemplation for up to 50 people has been shortlisted in the cultural building category of Dezeen Awards 2021. Its tall walls are designed to

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Gad Line+ Studio converts old Tai’an houses into Cloud of Hometown hotel

November 8, 2021 Natasha Levy 0

Seating area in front of panoramic windows in guest room of Cloud of Hometown Resort Hotel, China

Views of China’s most sacred mountain take prominence in this hotel designed by Gad Line+ Studio, which occupies a cluster of former homes in the city of Tai’an. Shortlisted in the hotel interior category of this year’s Dezeen Awards, the Cloud of Hometown Resort Hotel is nestled at the base of Mount Tai in the

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Open Architecture unveils rock-like concert hall in a valley outside Beijing

November 5, 2021 Christina Yao 0

Chapel of Sound was designed to look like a rock

Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed The Chapel of Sound, a monolithic open-air concert hall in a valley next to the ruins of the Great Wall of China outside Beijing. The project by Beijing-based practice Open Architecture is situated in a mountainous countryside area, two hours drive from the centre of the Chinese capital. The

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DAGA Architects adds mirrored courtyard to traditional hutong house

October 30, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Chinese studio DAGA Architects has renovated and modernised a traditional hutong residence in Beijing’s Dongcheng district, adding mirrors to the walls and floor of the entrance courtyard to make the space feel larger. The project is shortlisted in the housing category of 2021’s Dezeen Awards and represents an innovative take on the modernisation of these

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Steven Holl completes “energetic and open” Cofco Cultural and Health Center in Shanghai

October 29, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Cofco Cultural and Health Center exterior view

Steven Holl Architects has completed a cultural and health centre in Shanghai, comprising a pair of concrete buildings punctured by irregular openings that are set within a landscaped park. The firm headed by architect Steven Holl designed the Cofco Cultural and Health Center in 2016 for a site next to the Punan Canal in Shanghai’s

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Syn Architects tops wedding chapel in China with illuminated “moon”

October 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

A half domed volume emerges from a pool of water

An illuminated semicircular window above a pool of water simulates “a moon that never sets” on the roof of a ceremonial hall designed by Syn Architects, in the dramatic landscape surrounding Mount Tai in China. Hometown Moon is part of a creative strategy commissioned by the Lushang Group in 2019 for a 55-square-kilometre area north

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