China

Glazed meditation room overlooks traditional courtyard from Nanjing home

June 7, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Ming Gu Design has grafted a glazed meditation area onto this historic home in Nanjing, China, which projects out to overhang a central courtyard. The Nanjing-based architecture studio added the gabled meditation room, which features glass walls, to the centre of the heritage-listed house. The meditative space protrudes outwards and overhangs the base of the existing structure of the house, appearing as

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Photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li provide first look at Ole Scheeren’s Guardian Arts Center in Beijing

June 5, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

These new photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li reveal the “pixelated” forms of the Guardian Arts Center by Büro Ole Scheeren as it nears completion in Beijing. Scheeren’s architecture firm unveiled the new headquarters for the country’s oldest art auction house, China Guardian, in mid-2015. Conceived as the world’s first major museum and auction house hybrid, the arts centre provides two large auction halls, as

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27 Photos Inside The New InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun Hotel In China

June 2, 2017 Keely 0

  Joe Cheng of CCD/ Cheng Chung Design, has recently completed the InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun, a luxury hotel in China. The main goal of the project was to create an avant-garde atmosphere that evoked feelings of space, the future, and technology.   The hexagonal diamond effect of the building facade is where Joe Cheng began as a […]

Archi-Union’s Qiandao cable-car station features stacked forms that lean out towards a lake

May 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Chinese studio Archi-Union based the tiered form of this cable-car station on an abstracted geometric model of the mountains surrounding its site on the shores of Qiandao Lake. The Shanghai-based architecture office was invited to develop a proposal for the Qiandao Lake Cable Car Station in 2013, as part of a planning and architecture project

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Vector Architects adds barrel-vaulted roof to refurbished house in Chinese port

May 14, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Vector Architects has renovated a house perched on a rocky peninsula in China’s Fujian Province, adding a vaulted concrete roof that encloses a new living area with views towards the sea from either end. Captain’s House is located in the village of Beijiao at the end of Huangqi Peninsula. The geology of the peninsula’s cliffs means

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MAD’s mountain-shaped tower complex nears completion in Beijing

May 11, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

New images by photographer Edmon Leong offer a first look at the nearly completed glass volumes of MAD’s Chaoyang Park Plaza – a commercial and residential complex based on rock formations in Beijing. MAD’s 120,000-square-metre complex of skyscrapers, office blocks and public spaces is located in Beijing’s central business district, which sits on the southern edge of Chaoyang Park –

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Arch Studio carves concrete Buddhist shrine into a grassy mound in Hebei

May 9, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Beijing-based Arch Studio has completed a Buddhist shrine near the city of Tangshan, featuring subterranean concrete spaces that open up to views of a nearby river and planted courtyards. The shrine was designed by Arch Studio as a place for Buddhist meditation, thinking and contemplation on a forested site by the banks of a river in China’s Hebei

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Tangled Copper Pipes Run Throughout This Cinema

May 9, 2017 Erin 0

Photography by Jonathan Leijonhufvud   When ONE PLUS Partnership were designing the Shanghai Omnijoi International Cinema in China, they decided to pay homage to the movie industry. They did this by creating a copper track, similar to those used when filming a tracking shot, that runs throughout the lobby and even in some of the theaters. […]

Tangled Copper Pipes Run Throughout This Cinema

May 9, 2017 Erin 0

Photography by Jonathan Leijonhufvud   When ONE PLUS Partnership were designing the Shanghai Omnijoi International Cinema in China, they decided to pay homage to the movie industry. They did this by creating a copper track, similar to those used when filming a tracking shot, that runs throughout the lobby and even in some of the theaters. […]

Atelier XÜK adds wedge-shaped roof extension to Spanish-style villa in Shanghai

May 7, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Atelier XÜK has added a corrugated-metal attic room to this Spanish colonial-style house, which was designed in the 1920s by a Hungarian architect for a plot in Shanghai’s French quarter. The villa that local studio Atelier XÜK renovated and extended was originally designed by architect Ladislav Hudec. It is located in a part of the city known

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