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Shanghai-based studio ATAH’s arts centre in the Chinese city of Shaoxing is a glazed cylinder intersected by a spiralling walkway that doubles as a stage. The studio, founded by architects Guang Xu and Lilas Wang, designed the Heli-stage as the centrepiece of a commercial complex called the China Textile Centre (CTC), which comprises a mix

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Shanghai-based studio ATAH’s arts centre in the Chinese city of Shaoxing is a glazed cylinder intersected by a spiralling walkway that doubles as a stage. The studio, founded by architects Guang Xu and Lilas Wang, designed the Heli-stage as the centrepiece of a commercial complex called the China Textile Centre (CTC), which comprises a mix

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The KWG M CUBE shopping centre in Beijing, designed by MVRDV, is covered in hand-glazed iridescent ceramic tiles that change colour in different lights. Danish architecture firm MVRDV devised the subtle yet eye-catching rainbow facade for the multi-faceted mall to be a happy middle ground between the developer KWG Group Holdings’s wish for a building

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Blocks of red sandstone cover the volumes of a new design museum designed by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira on the Chinese Academy of Art campus in Hangzhou, eastern China. The 16,000-square-metre museum was commissioned to house the fine art college’s already sizeable collection of pieces, which had been bolstered by the acquisition of original

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PES Architects used custom-developed ceramic tiles and louvres to create the curving lines of the Strait Culture and Art Centre in Fuzhou, China. The Helsinki- and Shanghai-based studio arranged the five swooping buildings that make up the centre to unfurl like the overlapping petals of a jasmine flower – the symbol of Fuzhou. Opened on

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Architecture studio Superimpose created an interactive pavilion to be an oasis of calm in the centre of the capital, for Beijing Design Week 2018. Situated in a car park in the west of the city, Superimpose partnered with creative studio Shardisland to create the C02 pavilion and draw attention to air pollution in the city. “Through a system

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