This New Restaurant In China Creatively Uses Bamboo Throughout Its Interior

January 23, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Zhang Quan   Yiduan Shanghai International Design have recently completed the New Shandao Restaurant in Fuzhou, China.   Photography by Zhang Quan In the curved lobby, bamboo stick hang from the ceiling and a decorative flower element draws your eye upward. Photography by Zhang Quan Bamboo has been heavily used throughout the restaurant. In […]

World’s tallest ice tower built with the shape of a flamenco dress

January 23, 2018 India Block 0

A record-breaking 31-metre-high ice tower has been installed at the annual winter festival in Harbin, China, featuring a shape inspired by the flounces of a flamenco dancer’s dress. Students from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Summa College, both from the Netherlands, and the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) worked together to build the tower for the

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World’s tallest ice tower built with the shape of a flamenco dress

January 23, 2018 India Block 0

A record-breaking 31-metre-high ice tower has been installed at the annual winter festival in Harbin, China, featuring a shape inspired by the flounces of a flamenco dancer’s dress. Students from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Summa College, both from the Netherlands, and the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) worked together to build the tower for the

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World’s tallest ice tower built with the shape of a flamenco dress

January 23, 2018 India Block 0

A record-breaking 31-metre-high ice tower has been installed at the annual winter festival in Harbin, China, featuring a shape inspired by the flounces of a flamenco dancer’s dress. Students from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Summa College, both from the Netherlands, and the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) worked together to build the tower for the

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Wavy tiled roof of Springingstream guesthouse is based on the outline of surrounding mountains

January 22, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Beijing studio WEI Architects used traditional materials and construction techniques to convert a derelict house in Fujian province into a guesthouse featuring curving tiled roofs and reclaimed windows. Springingstream guesthouse is situated in the village of Chi Xi in Fuding County, where dramatic mountains, tea fields and bamboo forests create scenery evocative of typical Chinese

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World’s longest glass-bottomed suspension bridge has an intentional wobble

January 19, 2018 India Block 0

A deliberate sway is designed to unnerve visitors to this 488-metre-long bridge in China’s Hebei province, which has an entirely glazed walkway so they can also admire the 218-metre drop. The Hongyagu suspension bridge spans the gap between two cliffs in the Hongyagu Scenic Area. Made of 1,077 panels of 4-centimetre-thick glass and supported by cables that weigh

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World’s longest glass-bottomed suspension bridge has an intentional wobble

January 19, 2018 India Block 0

A deliberate sway is designed to unnerve visitors to this 488-metre-long bridge in China’s Hebei province, which has an entirely glazed walkway so they can also admire the 218-metre drop. The Hongyagu suspension bridge spans the gap between two cliffs in the Hongyagu Scenic Area. Made of 1,077 panels of 4-centimetre-thick glass and supported by cables that weigh

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This Visitor Centre Design Was Inspired By Yurts

January 18, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Shengliang Su   Architecture firm HDD have designed the Mulan Weichang Visitors Centre, whose shape is inspired by yurts.   Photography by Shengliang Su The center has been built in the north east of Hebei province, which is connected to inner Mongolia grassland, and as they used old stone, used wooden beam and ratten […]