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BIG Turns a Chinese Garden Corridor Into an Entire Museum on Jinji Lake
At the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group turns the covered corridor of a…
AIM Architecture Builds ZARA’s Fourth Shanghai Store inside an Existing Shell
Rather than starting from scratch, AIM Architecture, the Shanghai-based studio behind ZARA’s Nanjing Xinjiekou flagship, turned an existing…
Xiang Architects Turns a Double-Helix Staircase into a Tower’s Only Structure
Instead of hiding the structure behind a skin, Shanghai-based studio Xiang Architects turned the staircase itself into the…
MARS Studio Turns This Beijing Underpass Into a Restaurant You See Before You Taste
New York-founded, Beijing-based studio MARS Studio turned an active highway underpass in Tongzhou into a restaurant by splitting…
MVRDV Stacks a Theatre, Museum, and Shops into One Colorful Shenzhen Village
In Shatoujiao, a stone’s throw from the Hong Kong border, Rotterdam-based practice MVRDV is building a mixed-use cultural…
GOA Buries a 2,300-Seat Theater in China’s Mountains for Wild Raptors to Cross
In Wuxi’s Jiangsu countryside, Hangzhou-based studio GOA (Group of Architects) has completed an open-air theater in which the…
MAD Turns Shenzhen Bay Culture Square’s Roof Into a Public Park
Shenzhen Bay Culture Square, the eight-years-in-the-making cultural complex by MAD, treats its own roof as the most important…
At UCCA Beijing, Carsten Höller Traps Visitors in Parallel, Randomly Assigned Realities
Visitors to UCCA Center for Contemporary Art‘s “Carsten Höller: Two” do not choose which version of the exhibition…
Studio 10’s Wetland Caves Pavilion Hides Birdhouses Inside Its Concrete Pillars
Along the shifting shoreline of Chuanchang Island, Shenzhen-based studio Studio 10 has cast a cluster of concrete pillars…
MVRDV Gives Urban Revivo’s Beijing Store a Façade That Changes Color
In Beijing’s Sanlitun district, Rotterdam-based architecture practice MVRDV gave the new flagship store for Chinese fashion retailer Urban…
One Pull Makes Dayuan Design’s Suspended Shanghai Glaciers Fold and Distort
Dayuan Design‘s Glacier Project hangs nine geometric ice forms over a Shanghai plaza, and pulling the components beneath…
The Hangzhou Prism Is Not a Tower — It Is Several Towers Compressed Into One Porous Structure
OMA‘s Hangzhou Prism, completed in Hangzhou’s Future Tech City district for developer Xinhu Real Estate Group, did not…
Wutopia Lab Turns a Leaping Blue Whale Into the Gateway of a Residential Complex in Henan
Wutopia Lab built a residential entrance gateway in Shangqiu, Henan, in the shape of a blue whale —…
Warrior 1927’s First Flagship Store Has a Dragon Waking Up on Each Floor — and Nothing to Buy on the Last One
STILL YOUNG‘s Warrior 1927 Concept Flagship Store in Shanghai occupies a three-story Shikumen building and unfolds across 690…
A Cloud That Breathes, Rises, and Remembers: PILLS Designs a Living Gateway for Dongguan’s MIXC VILLAGE
For the gateway installation at Dongguan’s MIXC VILLAGE — the first premium outlet project developed by China Resources…
Foster + Partners Shapes a Shanghai Gallery Around a Flower Found Across the Street
In Shanghai‘s Putuo District, Foster + Partners has built a gallery that deliberately contradicts the scale of the…
Vincent Leroy Suspends Shifting “Point Cloud” of Colored Discs Over Beijing Plaza
Vincent Leroy’s latest kinetic installation, Point Cloud, suspended over the bustling plaza of Taikoo Li Sanlitun for Beijing’s…
Ma Yansong Completes “Shimmering” Hainan Science Museum in Haikou
The Hainan Science Museum, designed by Ma Yansong and his firm MAD Architects, has emerged as a landmark…
Atelier L Creates “Origami” Coffee Pop-up Informed by Pour-Over Drippers
Atelier L has installed a temporary coffee pavilion at Taikoo Li Sanlitun in Beijing, utilizing two interconnected volumes…
X+Living Crafts a Playful, Classical-Infused “Urban Celebration” for Miniso’s Homecoming in Guangzhou
Marking a highly symbolic return to the city where the brand was born, architecture and design studio X+Living…
LUO Studio Creates “Metamorphic” Shell-Like Book Pavilion in Beijing
LUO studio has introduced the Shell Book Pavilion to the Fountain Plaza of Shine Hills in Beijing, a…