China

Approach Design covers convention centre in Hangzhou with a sports park

April 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Center by Approach Design has a green roof with a running track

Chinese architects Approach Design has added a new hall to the Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Centre in China and concealed it under a green roof featuring a running track and sports courts. After originally designing a large latticed structure for the first stage of the convention centre in 2015, demands for more space led to the architects

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Website forced to pay out for saying Zaha Hadid-designed building had bad Feng Shui

April 17, 2019 India Block 0
A property developer has won a court case against a website that said the Zaha Hadid Architects design Wangjing Soho had . bad Feng Shui

A property developer in China has won a payout over an article claiming the Feng Shui of the Wangjing Soho in Beijing by Zaha Hadid Architects was poor. Zhuhai Shengun Internet Technology was ordered to pay 200,000 yuan (£22,900) in compensation to SOHO China by the Chaoyang District People’s Court in Beijing for a piece that criticised the

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“China is fast becoming the world’s creative superpower”

April 17, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0
China Design Power

The design world flocked to Milan last week for its design week. But soon the action will shift to China, which is about to leapfrog the west when it comes to architecture and design, predicts Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. China is fast becoming the world’s creative superpower. And it is doing it on its own

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MDDM Studio completes House on the Great Wall in China

April 11, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
House on the Great Wall by MDDM Studio

Beijing-based MDDM Studio has extended a house near the Great Wall of China by transforming a nearby storage unit into minimalist living quarters.  The extension – which is aptly titled House on the Great Wall – has contemporary living spaces set amongst aged stone walls. It was previously an unassuming building that has been used

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Zai’s Hutong Filter features a pixelated shingle wall overlooking a traditional courtyard

April 10, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Hutong Filter by Zai Studio

Hutong Filter is a studio added to a house in one of Beijing’s traditional hutongs by architecture office Zai with pixel-style shingles and timber frames connecting to a communal courtyard. Beijing studio Zai, founded in 2018 by Yihang Zhang, introduced additional functional spaces to a house found within a courtyard typical of the city’s hutong neighbourhoods. It

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Open Architecture converts airport fuel tanks into gallery spaces

April 7, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
TANK Shanghai by OPEN Architecture in China

Five aviation fuel containers on the former Longhua airport in Shanghai have been transformed into art and culture park Tank Shanghai, by local studio Open Architecture. Open Architecture has created 60,000 square metres of gallery space on the former industrial site, for Chinese collector Qiao Zhibing. Tank Shanghai sits atop a landscaped “super-surface” – a newly constructed ground

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Tensile fabric roof stretches over bamboo structures at Raleigh Campsite in China

April 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Raleigh Campsite in China by Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology

The Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology has completed a youth development facility, by renovating a former primary school and adding a series of covered bamboo campsite spaces. Located in the mountain village of Pingqiao, in southwest Guizhou province, Raleigh Campsite was set up to provide for the local village and employ local craftspeople, but also

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Snøhetta to build Shanghai Grand Opera House with spiral staircase roof

April 3, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Renders of Shanghai Grand Opera House by Snøhetta in China

Snøhetta has revealed visuals for a major new opera house in China, featuring a spiralling stepped roof that will connect the upper levels of the building with a riverside plaza. The architecture and design firm, which was founded in Norway, teamed up with Chinese studio ECADI on its competition-winning design for the Shanghai Grand Opera House. Set to be

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Atelier Tao + C uses wooden structure to divide U-shape Room in Shanghai

April 3, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
U-shape Room by Atelier Tao+C

A plywood volume that contains sleep, study and bathing spaces adds structure to this unusually-shaped Shanghai apartment, which architecture studio Atelier Tao+C has recently overhauled. Fronted by a huge bay window that curve out from its front facade, the aptly named U-shape Room apartment has been overhauled to feature a multifunctional wooden volume that Atelier

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Jaime Hayon designs Fritz Hansen’s first store in China and its largest anywhere in the world

April 1, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Fritz Hansen Gallery Xi'an designed by Jaime Hayon

Fritz Hansen has opened a showroom designed by Jaime Hayon in Xi’an as part of its ambition to become “the biggest Danish brand in China”. The 1,000-square-metre store is the Danish furniture brand’s biggest ever and its first in China. Dario Reicherl, the brand’s Asia CEO,  said the store was a statement of its ambitions

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