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Trace Architecture Office creates bookstore “with spatial experiences” within historic academy

August 25, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio Trace Architecture Office has repaired and renovated a historic building in Yunnan, China, to house the Weishan Chongzheng Academy Bookstore. Trace Architecture Office (TAO) reinvigorated the Weishan Chongzheng Academy, which has a history dating back over 500 years, by creating a space for bookstore chain Librairie Avant-Garde. “Chongzheng Academy was one of the first

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Temp nestles charred-wood pavilion in rocky Shanghai garden

August 18, 2024 Katie Last 0

Chinese studio Temp has used charred wood to create 3-to-1 Pavilion, a triangular shelter nestled in a rocky garden in Shanghai. Intended as a sanctuary-like space for drinking tea and gathering, the pavilion has a geometric form with a triangular plan and louvred walls made from wooden frames. “The 3-to-1 Pavilion design is the integration

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Tianjin 4A Sports Park is a multipurpose play area in China by BAM

August 17, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A range of colours, patterns and forms animate this sports and play area in Tianjin, China, designed by international studio Ballistic Architecture Machine to “rethink the role of parks in dense cities”. Named Tianjin 4A Sports Park, the project eschews the common idea of a park as an open green space and offers locals in

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Atelier Tao+C creates “luminous” bookshop in Chinese ski resort

August 11, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has completed a light-filled bookshop with a timber roof at a ski report in northern China for local retailer Naïve. Located in the ski resort of Aranya Chongli in northern China, the bookshop was built within an existing concrete frame. A grid of steel and timber frameworks were inserted in between

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Atelier Tao+C creates “luminous” bookshop in Chinese ski resort

August 11, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has completed a light-filled bookshop with a timber roof at a ski report in northern China for local retailer Naïve. Located in the ski resort of Aranya Chongli in northern China, the bookshop was built within an existing concrete frame. A grid of steel and timber frameworks were inserted in between

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BIG tops waterfront art museum in Suzhou with swooping roof planes

August 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art by Danish studio BIG, engineering firm Arts Group and architecture studio Front has topped out in China, with curved metal roofs designed as a “fifth facade”. Located on Jinji Lake near the Suzhou Ferris Wheel, images of the museum’s construction progress show a series of tiered buildings connected by

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Xisui Design models metal pavilion on birds’ nests and eggshells

August 4, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Shanghai studio Xisui Design drew on natural shapes for the minimalist Thin-Shell Metal Woven Pavilion, which was designed as a sunken resting space on a pond in China. The ovoid metal pavilion was made to be lightweight, wind-resistant and provide shade from the sun, while also letting some light in. “We drew inspiration from the

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RSHP designs 1.7-kilometre-long convention centre in China

August 2, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

British studio RSHP has unveiled its design for The Zhongyuan International Convention Centre, which will have an almost two-kilometre-long elevated floor plane and include 16 exhibition halls. Located within the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone (ZAEZ) in Henan, China, the Zhongyuan International Convention and Conference Centre complex was designed by RSHP and architecture studio TJAD. The

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ZZHK Architects completes bridge in China with spiralling viewpoint

July 28, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese Studio ZZHK has completed G Clef Bridge, a pedestrian walkway across the Bailu River in Chengdu, which culminates in a spiralling ramp and viewpoint informed by musical notation. The bridge connects the French-style town of Bailu – a popular tourist destination also known as Bailu Music Town – with the Diamond Music Hall on

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MORE Architecture creates Ginkgo Gallery as “antidote to the museum boom” in China

July 23, 2024 Tian Lin 0

Dutch studio MORE Architecture has completed a concrete museum on an island in a manmade lake in Jiaxing, China. Named Ginkgo Gallery after the ginkgo trees that cover the island, the contemporary art museum comprises exhibition rooms, an auditorium, a reading room and a workshop space. Designed as a small-scale museum and constructed with a

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