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Natural tones and textures complement displays at museum of dried fish bladders

February 5, 2020 Alyn Griffiths 0

A Private Fish Maw Museum by Jingu Phoenix Space Planning Organization

Glossy floors, rough-sawn wood and diffused natural light create a calming atmosphere inside this private museum in Chinese city Shoutou, designed to display a collection of aged fish bladders. Local studio Jingu Phoenix Space Planning Organization, also known as JG Phoenix, designed the private fish maw museum for a client who spent decades gathering a collection

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Natural tones and textures complement displays at museum of dried fish bladders

February 5, 2020 Alyn Griffiths 0

Glossy floors, rough-sawn wood and diffused natural light create a calming atmosphere inside this private museum in Chinese city Shoutou, designed to display a collection of aged fish bladders. Local studio Jingu Phoenix Space Planning Organization, also known as JG Phoenix, designed the private fish maw museum for a client who spent decades gathering a collection

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Coronavirus quarantine hospital in Wuhan completes in just nine days

February 3, 2020 India Block 0

The coronavirus hospital has opened in Wuhan

A prefabricated hospital with capacity for 1,000 patients has been built in nine days in Wuhan, China, which is the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The Chinese state confirmed yesterday that the first of two quarantine hospitals in Wuhan had completed in just over a week. It will start admitting the first 50 infected

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Pale green ceramic tiles cover exhibition centre in China

February 3, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center in China by Playze & Schmidhuber

Architecture practice Playze and design firm Schmidhuber covered the Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center in eastern China in a skin of pale green glazed ceramic tiles. Located in Ningbo Eastern New Town overlooking the waterfront, the conference centre is a venue for exhibitions and events relating to urban planning and development. “The goal was to

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Zaha Hadid Architects releases visuals of amorphous OPPO Shenzhen headquarters

January 31, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

OPPO Headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed its proposal for four interconnected towers in Shenzhen, China, which will contain the open-plan headquarters for OPPO. Set to break ground later this year, the amorphous OPPO headquarters is designed by Zaha Hadid Architects to accommodate the continual growth of the company dubbed as China’s leading smartphone manufacturer. The headquarters

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Bookshop in paddy field sandwiched between walls of abandoned house

January 28, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Xiadi Paddy Field Bookstore of Librairie Avant-Garde by TAO

Trace Architecture Office has inserted a bookshop and cafe into old rammed earth gables of a long-abandoned house in rural China. Called Paddy Field Bookstore after its location, the shop on the outskirts of Xiadi Village, Fuijian province, is all but invisible from the exterior. “The remnants serve as a container that wraps around the

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Tadao Ando reveals design for He Art Museum in China

January 28, 2020 India Block 0

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has released visuals of the He Art Museum in Shunde, China, which opens later this year. The He Art Museum, or HEM, will be made from a series of stacked disks and will have a double helix spiral staircase at its centre. Running from the ground floor to the fourth, this

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China building 1,000-bed hospital in ten days to treat coronavirus

January 27, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

1,000-bed hospital being built in Wuhan, China, to treat coronavirus

The government of China is rapidly building a 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan as part of its efforts to contain and treat patients suspected of contracting coronavirus. Named Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital, the 25,000-square-metre facility is being built in the Caidian District in the west of the city of Wuhan to treat coronavirus patients. At the time

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Hangzhou’s Nova Pets is a grooming parlour where owners can hang out with their animals

January 26, 2020 Ali Morris 0

Nova Pets grooming salon by Say Architects

Say Architects has completed a grooming salon for pets in Hangzhou, China, which includes a sunken cafe, playground and a paddling pool where four-legged visitors can dip their paws. Called Nova Pets, the 450 square-metre space provides a grooming service and areas for owners and their furry friends to socialise with others. Half of the

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Curving glass walls bulge into courtyards of converted Beijing hutong

January 24, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese practice Arch Studio have renovated an abandoned hutong in Beijing, making a house with curving glass walls around internal courtyards. Originally the hutong was a style of courtyard residence known as a siheyuan. The project is called Qishe Courtyard for the seven original structures – qishe translates as seven houses – that stood on

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