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Zaha Hadid Architects shares proposal for Shanghai’s “greenest building”

August 5, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Visual of Zaha Hadid Architects proposal for CECEP Shanghai Campus

Zaha Hadid Architects has shared its design for the CECEP Shanghai Campus in China, which will utilise renewable energy technologies and recycled materials. Developed for Chinese renewable energy firm CECEP, the mixed-use campus will be built in north-east Shanghai beside the Huangpu River, taking the form of three interlinked towers with leisure facilities and an urban

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Foster + Partners designs “porous” Apple store in Beijing

August 4, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Apple Sanlitun by Foster + Partners in Beijing, China

A large overhanging roof shelters the expansive glass walls that front the “open and inviting” Apple Sanlitun store by Foster + Partners in Beijing, China. Located in a large open square within Sanlitun, an area of the capital city’s Chaoyang District, the building replaces China’s first Apple Store built adjacent to the site in 2008.

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Wuchazi Bridge creates “infinite meandering path” over river in Chengdu

August 3, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Wuchazi Bridge in Chengdu by architects Tom Wünschmann, Achim Kaufer, Wei Cai and Philipp Buschmeyer and Chinese design institutes SADI and JDTM

Berlin-based architects Tom Wünschmann, Achim Kaufer, Wei Cai and Philipp Buschmeyer and Chinese design institutes SADI and JDTM have created a bridge that offers a variety of routes across a river in Chengdu, China. The design team created a continual walkable path within the Wuchazi Bridge as part of its aim to make the structure

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DnA_Design and Architecture builds wooden tofu factory in Chinese mountains

July 28, 2020 India Block 0

Beijing studio DnA_Design and Architecture has built a tofu factory from wood for the village of Caizhai in the mountains of Songyang in western China. Set across a sloping site, the project was designed to improve the village’s tofu production facilities. It is also intended to showcase the manufacture of the soy-based food and includes

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Folded facades invited visitors into iADC Design Museum in Shenzhen

July 22, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
iADC Design Museum in Shenzhen's Bao'an district by Rocco Design Architects 

Hong Kong studio Rocco Design Architects has created the folded facades of the iADC Design Museum in Shapu to be a visual representation of Shenzhen’s “design spirit”. Rocco Design Architects designed the International Art Design Center (iADC) to anchor the Shapu Art Town, which has been built in Shenzhen’s Bao’an district. “The Museum is intended to be a visual

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Tra & Xi Studio designs greyscale interiors for Fnji office in Beijing

July 13, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Fnji office in Beijing designed by Tra & Xi Studio

The “warm sense of the future” depicted in sci-fi movie Her informed the soft grey workspaces that Tra & Xi Studio has created in the Beijing office of furniture brand Fnji. The 1000-square-metre Fnji office is located northeast of central Beijing in the city’s Shunyi district. Tra & Xi Studio was tasked with developing a

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Open Architecture unveils Pingshan Performing Arts Center

July 2, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Pingshan Performing Arts Center by Open Architecture

Beijing studio Open Architecture has created the Pingshan Performing Arts Center near Shenzhen as a “counter-statement” to other more extravagant theatres that have recently been built in China. The architecture studio designed the performing arts centre in the Pingshan district of Shenzhen with a simple form to demonstrate an alternative to the landmark structures that

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Safdie Architects completes “horizontal skyscraper” at Raffles City Chongqing

June 25, 2020 India Block 0
The Crystal at Raffles City Chongqing by Safdie Architects

The Crystal skybridge, which connects four 250-metre-tall skyscrapers, has opened as the first stage of Safdie Architects Raffles City Chongqing complex in China. The public observatory that cantilevers out from one end of The Crystal is the first part of the vast complex to be completed, with rest of Raffles City Chongqing due to be finished

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MAD tops Shenzhen cultural park with “monumental stones”

June 25, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Shenzhen Bay Culture Park by MAD

Architecture studio MAD has unveiled its design for the largely subterranean Shenzhen Bay Culture Park museum complex, which will be topped by two pavilions designed to look like groups of large stones. Shenzhen Bay Culture Park will be built on a waterfront site in the Houhai area of Shenzhen’s Nanshan district alongside a 400-metre-high supertall skyscraper designed by Kohn

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Chubby Girl noodle bar in Beijing takes cues from the landscape of south-west China

June 18, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Chubby Girl noodle restaurant by Office AIO

The stepped terrazzo floor, strip lighting and foggy mirrored walls inside this Beijing noodle bar designed by Office AIO are meant to mimic the urban makeup of the city of Chongqing. Chubby Girl is situated in Beijing’s Xiang’Er hutong and, since 2015, has been locals’ go-to spot for Chongqing noodles – a spicy street food

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