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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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Continuing our review of 2019, Benedict Hobson picks out 10 diverse architecture projects from across China, including a collection of wooden huts on a remote mountainside and one of the largest airports in the world. Jishou Art Museum, Jishou, by Atelier FCJZ Beijing architecture studio Atelier FCJZ created the Jishou Art Museum over the Wanrong river

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The Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre, which is wrapped in a steel structure designed to look like a bamboo forest, has opened in China. The theatre in Wuxi, a city near Shanghai in eastern China, was designed by Steven Chilton Architects as the permanent home for a water show designed by Belgian theatre director Franco Dragone. The round theatre

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A spiral staircase twists 810 degrees to form a viewpoint designed by architecture studio Doarchi to look out over the mountains close to Shenzhen. Called Tower of Spiral, the stairs wrap around a small pool used for irrigation for nearby fields. Surrounded by grass, sunflower fields and the mountains in the distance, the base of the

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The curvaceous, aluminium-clad form of Liyang Museum in China was designed by architecture practice CROX to look like a traditional musical instrument. The aluminium blob sits atop an undulating landscaped form and sits beside a lake in Liyang, a city in Jiangsu province. CROX wanted to translate the sound of an ancient Chinese instrument called the

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Chinese architecture studio LLLab has designed a hotel on the outskirts of Beijing as a village-style complex of buildings made from local brick and slate. The hotel is situated in Beijou Village, a short distance from the Great Wall of China, on a site formerly occupied by a gas station. Called San Sa Village, the

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Our latest Pinterest board features innovative architecture in Beijing’s historic hutongs, including radical transformations of traditional courtyard houses such as this one by Chinese architect MAD. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our hutongs board to see more examples. Once common in Beijing and other northern Chinese cities, hutongs are narrow streets or alleys formed

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