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First building on Zaha Hadid Architects’ Unicorn Island nears completion

January 21, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Unicorn Island masterplan by Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects has released a video revealing a sinuous white exhibition centre that it is close to completing on Unicorn Island in Chengdu, China. Start-Up exhibition and conference centre will be the first building to reach completion in the Unicorn Island masterplan, which Zaha Hadid Architects is developing for the Chengdu government on the eastern

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Layers of mirror and glass feature in Shenzhen’s “ghostly” Geijoeng store

January 20, 2020 Ali Morris 0

Geijoeng store in China, designed by Studio 10

Studio 10 has layered an array of reflective, translucent and transparent materials to create an ethereal store for a womenswear brand in Shenzhen. Designed by Studio 10 for Geijoeng – a Chinese minimalist womenswear brand – the 120-square-metre store features glass brick walls, a mirrored dropped ceiling and a green terrazzo floor. The studio’s aim

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Pastel colours and polka-dots cover a fantastical miniature city for children in Shenzhen

January 17, 2020 India Block 0

Architecture studio X+ Living has built a polka-dot slide into a ball pit and giant pastel parasols within the Shenzhen Neobio Family Park in a shopping centre in China. Shenzhen Neobio Family Park is the latest in the Neobio series of immersive parent and child restaurants with playgrounds that X+ Living has been building in China. Parents can

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Arch Studio surrounds holiday house in China with covered courtyards

January 9, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

A brick holiday home in Tangshan, China designed by Arch Studio has four external terraces partially sheltered under a pitched roof. Replacing a demolished wooden dwelling, the site is near to an organic food plant and a Buddhist shrine also completed by Arch Studio. Aptly named Courtyard Villa, the holiday home is an inversion of

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Foster + Partners reveals visuals for gridded Alibaba Shanghai headquarters

January 8, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Alibaba Shanghai headquarters proposal by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners has unveiled a proposal for Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba’s headquarters in Shanghai that will be built within a giant grid. Alibaba Shanghai will be manufactured off-site before being built on Xuhui Riverside, where it will overlook the Huangpu River and Pudong Central Business District. Foster + Partners designed the Alibaba headquarters alongside a giant

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MDDM Studio uses yellow to energise interiors of Beijing’s House P

January 7, 2020 Ali Morris 0

Yellow walls meet stark-white furnishings and colourful terrazzo fixtures inside this bright Beijing apartment, which has been overhauled by MDDM Studio. Spread across the top two floors and roof terrace of a five-storey residential building on the north side of Beijing, House P was designed by MDDM Studio for a young family. The studio, which

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Carlo Ratti’s Eyes of the City exhibition in Shenzhen tracks visitors with facial-recognition tech

January 6, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and actively uses facial-recognition technology. A part of the the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen, The Eyes of the City exhibition is now open at Futian station. It features works

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Archi-Union surrounds internet conference centre with robot-built pavilions

January 5, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Light of Internet World Internet Conference Centre by Archi-Union

Archi-Union has surrounded the Light of Internet World Internet Conference Centre in Wuzhen, China, with pavilions that were built using robotic construction techniques. The conference centre, which has a curving tiled roof and a facade of angled glass, sits in a landscaped park on a site northwest of the town surrounded by farm houses. Wuzhen

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Waterfrom Design builds tea house with a basement hidden beneath a water pool

January 3, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

TEA Community Centre by Waterfrom Design aerial view

Architecture studio Waterfrom Design has completed the Tea Community Centre, a multipurpose building in Xiamen, China, that is partially concealed beneath the surface of a pool of water. Above ground, the tea house takes the form of a simple pavilion for preparing and serving tea. But a staircase leads down into a much larger basement,

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Herzog & de Meuron reveals visuals of museum complex beside China’s Grand Canal

January 3, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Grand Canal Museum Complex by Herzog & de Meuron in Hangzhou, China

Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled its proposal for a linear museum complex in Hangzhou that will sit beside China’s Grand Canal and celebrate the history of the artificial river. It is the winning entry in a design competition for the Grand Canal Museum Complex, and will be built at the junction of the Hanggang

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