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Former Shanghai airport transformed into Xuhui Runway Park

January 10, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio Sasaki has created an expansive linear park on the site of the runway for the former Longhua Airport in the Xuhui riverfront area of Shanghai. The 1,830-metre-long park was built on the site of the runway of Longhua Airport, which was Shanghai’s only civilian airport until 1949 and closed in 2011. “Xuhui Runway Park is an innovative urban revitalization project

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Various Associates designs C2 Cafe & Bar as a wooden “cabin in the city”

January 8, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

Seating outside the C2 Cafe & Bar by Various Associates in Shenzhen, China

Various Associates has designed a cafe and cocktail bar in Shenzhen, China, which is lined with wooden cladding and furniture to emulate a small cosy cabin. The 75-square-metre cafe, which nestles amongst offices and apartment buildings, was commissioned by a group of young locals to offer the community respite from fast-paced city life. Shenzhen studio

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MAD unveils Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing

January 8, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Chinese architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing, China, which will see the studio rebuild a historical railway station and complement it with a new underground terminal. MAD’s development will see to sunken waiting halls lit through skylights and glass curtain walls built on either side of

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MAD unveils sinuous conference centre nestled amongst Chinese mountains

December 31, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Yabuli Entrepreneurs' Congress Center by MAD

Chinese architecture studio MAD has revealed the recently completed Yabuli Entrepreneurs’ Congress Center, which is surrounded by mountains in northeast China. Built within the Yabuli ski resort near the city of Harbin in northeast China, the conference centre was created as a permanent home for the Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum. According to MAD, the building was

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Dezeen’s top 10 Chinese architecture projects of 2020

December 29, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

Inside the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum by Studio Zhu-Pei

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, China still managed to have another impressive year for architecture in 2020. To continue our review of the year, Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks out 10 of the best projects completed. Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum, Jingdezhen, by Studio Zhu-Pei This museum celebrates the history of ceramic production in Jingdezhen, both in terms

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Linehouse transforms Shanghai swimming pool into office space

December 17, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Linehouse has converted a Shanghai office block’s swimming pool into an additional workspace, using a palette of blue vinyl, peachy leather and light-hued timber. The swimming pool was part of the fitness facilities made for office workers of the Jing’An Kerry Centre, a mixed-use development in Shanghai’s Jing’An district designed by architecture firm

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Out Of Office is a Mad Men-inspired drinks bar in Guangzhou

December 16, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

Out Of Office bar in Guangzhou has Mad Men-inspired interiors

The TV show Mad Men informed the retro feel of this bar in Guangzhou, China, which designer Vinki Li has finished with wood-panelled walls, marble floors and plush mid-century furniture. Li – who is based in Hong Kong – had been told to make the interiors of Out Of Office unlike any other bar in

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Steven Chilton Architects wraps Guangzhou theatre in tattoo-imprinted cladding

December 9, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre by Steven Chilton Architects

Steven Chilton Architects has designed a theatre in Guangzhou, China, which has a shape informed by the city’s historical connection to silk and is imprinted with patterns that represent its current tattoo culture. Named the Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre, the building will host performances from visiting production companies as part of a group of entertainment venues being

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AOE covers exhibition centre in China with white perforated metal

December 6, 2020 India Block 0

Shuifa Geographic Information Industrial Park Exhibition Center by AOE in China

Chinese architecture studio AOE has wrapped a conference centre near Jinan, China, in a layer of perforated metal screens. The Shuifa Geographic Information Industrial Park Exhibition Center sits 12 miles outside of the city of Jinan in east China. An inner wall of glass is screened by slanting walls of translucent mesh, which appear solid from

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Álvaro Siza cloaks Chinese art museum with black corrugated metal

December 5, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Black corrugated metal wraps the undulating, windowless walls of the Humao Museum of Art and Education that Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira have completed in Ningo, China. Set on the banks of Dongqian Lake, the minimalist museum was designed by Pritzker Prize-laureate Siza with fellow Portuguese architect Castanheira to evoke an ambiguous floating object. Its

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