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Atelier Xi transforms abandoned house into library with curved concrete walls

August 17, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Chinese architecture studio Atelier Xi has completed a library in Henan province featuring a curving concrete volume that emerges from the ruins of a derelict house. Library in Ruins is part of a series of buildings designed by Shenzhen-based Atelier Xi for the municipal government of rural Xiuwu County. The firm was initially commissioned to

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Studio Avoid designs Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou to evoke ancient cave dwellings

August 15, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Studio Avoid has completed a retreat in China’s Hebei province comprising a series of cave-like brick-clad pods connected by a raised walkway. The village of Xiyaotou in the Zhangjiakou prefecture contains a network of traditional cave dwellings, which provided the inspiration for the interconnected vertical pods forming the Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou. “The design concept starts

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Atelier Xi designs peach-coloured concrete pavilion in rural China

August 14, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese practice Atelier Xi has completed Peach Hut, a tinted concrete community pavilion and bar overlooking a field of peach trees in Henan Province. The Shenzhen-based practice was initially approached to design a 300-square-metre arts centre in Xiuwu, but proposed that its scattered rural communities would be better served by a more dispersed series of

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MAD designs white cloud-like science museum on Haikou coast

August 13, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

Chinese architecture studio MAD has released visuals of the top-heavy Hainan Science and Technology Museum that it has designed for the coast of Haikou in China. Slated to open to the public in 2024, the cloud-like museum will encompass 46,528 square metres on a verdant site in the city near a national wetland park. The

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Ennead Architects designs Shanghai Astronomy Museum to “echo the essence of the Universe”

August 9, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

New York studio Ennead Architects has completed the world’s largest museum dedicated to astronomy in Shanghai, China. Designed to reflect the shapes and geometry within the universe, the form of the recently opened museum in Shanghai has no straight lines or right angles. “The foundational design concept of the Shanghai Astronomy Museum was to abstractly embody within

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Taste Studio pays tribute to the art of coffee roasting with Paga cafe

August 6, 2021 Alice Finney 0

Interior design studio Taste Space designed this roastery and cafe in Bangkok to take customers on a journey from coffee bean roasting to cup. The Bangkok-based studio drew on the process of coffee roasting to inform its design of the three-storey roastery in the Watthana district of Thailand’s capital. Spread out over three floors on the corner

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Ten pieces that showcase the “authentic voice” of Zaha Hadid

August 5, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A retrospective of architect Zaha Hadid’s work called ZHA Close Up – Work & Research is currently on display at MAM Shanghai. Its curator Shai Baitel picks 10 items from the exhibition that demonstrate the diversity of her work. The exhibition at Shanghai’s Modern Art Museum is the first show dedicated to the work of Zaha Hadid Architects

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Arched glass panels suggest windows in basement canteen by SHH

August 4, 2021 Ali Morris 0

London studio SHH has used ribbed glass panels in graduated sunset colours to provide a sense of the outdoors in this basement dining hall in Beijing’s central Chaoyang district. Located on the lower ground floor of a twenty-storey building, the dining hall spans more than 1,670 square metres and is split into three distinct zones –

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Mustard yellow tiles clad the walls of this Chengdu hotel by Archetype

July 26, 2021 Ali Morris 0

Grid patterns and crisp lines are softened by an earthy colour palette in this hotel interior in Chengdu, China, by local firm Archetype Design Organization. Located in a building from 2002 that was previously used as shops and offices, the 3,209-square-metre Buda Hotel is sandwiched between the city’s busy Yizhou Avenue and a quiet community neighbourhood.

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MVRDV unveils terraced LAD headquarters in Shanghai designed as “agricultural oasis”

July 13, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has released designs for a terraced office block clad in solar panels for Chinese agriculture development company Lankuaikei Agriculture Development. Located lakeside in Lingang New Town, Shanghai, the building will feature a “technological” roof that will follow the shape of its 11 stepped storeys. The northern part of the roof is

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