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Hong Kong bridge prepares to open amid fears over structural integrity

April 17, 2018 India Block 0

Chinese authorities have announced that the 55-kilometre bridge between Hong Kong, the Chinese Mainland and Macau is on track to open, despite concerns that parts of the structure have been washed away by the sea. Hong Kong’s Highways Department rebuffed claims that the concrete blocks protecting an artificial island connecting the Hong Kong side of the bridge

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Atelier Tao+C inserts lightwell to brighten interiors of traditional Shanghai lane house

April 16, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Beijing practice Atelier Tao+C has inserted a narrow light shaft into the centre of this 1930s home in Shanghai to illuminate its light-starved rooms. The property is one of a number of dwellings set along alleys in the city’s former French Concession. They alley houses known as lilongs, or lane houses, were popular in Shanghai

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NBBJ completes “vertical campus” for Tencent’s headquarters in Shenzhen

April 12, 2018 India Block 0

At the Shenzhen headquarters of Chinese tech giant Tencent, twin skyscrapers are connected by sky bridges designed to help employees meet. Architect NBBJ designed Tencent’s Global Headquarters specifically to prevent the 10,000 workers of the technology firm from getting siloed in their different departments. Two glass and aluminium towers rise to 50 and 39 stories respectively and are

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Yueqi Jazzy Li captures the “sublime quality” of Jiakun Architects’ Chengdu sculpture museum

March 27, 2018 India Block 0

New photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li capture the interplay of natural light on the raw concrete walls in this sculpture museum by Jiakun Architects in Chengdu, China. The New York-based architect and photographer travelled to the province of Sichuan to shoot the Luyeyuan Buddhist Sculpture Museum, which completed in 2002. “Nearly 16 years later, it

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Wutopia Lab’s pink and blue houses explore ideas of masculine and feminine

March 23, 2018 India Block 0

Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab painted a pair of houses pink and blue, filling one with meat and the other with flowers, to explore constructs around gender and food for an architecture biennale in Shenzhen. The organisers of the 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture invited Wutopia Lab to renovate the two houses in Dameisha Village, an urban

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Wutopia Lab’s pink and blue houses explore ideas of masculine and feminine

March 23, 2018 India Block 0

Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab painted a pair of houses pink and blue, filling one with meat and the other with flowers, to explore constructs around gender and food for an architecture biennale in Shenzhen. The organisers of the 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture invited Wutopia Lab to renovate the two houses in Dameisha Village, an urban

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Neri&Hu encloses guest rooms and gardens within grid of brick walls at Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat

February 19, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has completed a boutique hotel in Yangzhou comprising a grid of dark-brick walls that surround a series of courtyards, gardens, guest rooms and service areas. Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat is located close to the Slender West Lake scenic resort in the Hanjiang District to the north of the city’s historic centre. The area

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Lim + Lu uses brightly coloured walls and furnishings for fashion designer’s Hong Kong home

February 14, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Yellow, turquoise, and coral-pink furnishings brighten this previously colourless apartment in Hong Kong, which has been overhauled by local studio Lim + Lu for a fashion designer. The Twin Peaks Residence is located within one of on Kowloon island’s many high-rise residential towers. Its owner, a Parisian fashion designer, approached Lim + Lu to redesign the apartment to

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O’Donnell + Tuomey to build red brick opera house in Shanghai

February 13, 2018 India Block 0

O’Donnell + Tuomey has unveiled plans for three interconnected, angular, red brick opera houses in Shanghai, on the site of the 2010 Expo. The Dublin-based architecture practice has designed three performance venues, each with planted gardens placed on their angled rooftops to create an undulating park for visitors. Conceived as a “city of opera”, the 1,800-seat opera hall,

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Natural materials “create warmth and psychological wellbeing” at Claesson Koivisto Rune’s Xiang Jiang house

February 11, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Timber panels lining the walls of this house in Beijing by Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune create a datum that unites the different spaces and contributes to a warm and soothing ambience. Claesson Koivisto Rune designed the interior for an existing house in the Chinese capital. They chose to create a Scandinavian-inspired space that enlivens

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