This museum of vintage BMWs by architecture practice Crossboundaries is draped in layers of red fabric that reference traditional Chinese archways (+ slideshow). More about Beijing BMW museum features hanging Chinese gates made of fabric
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has opened the first physical store for ZaoZuo, the Chinese startup furniture brand for which he is creative director (+ slideshow). More about Luca Nichetto designs first ZaoZuo showroom in Beijing based on grid paper
Architecture studio Penda has teamed up with engineering firm Arup to design a bridge made up of overlapping rings for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. More about Penda designs Olympic bridge made up of intersecting rings
Office AIO has converted a courtyard residence in Beijing's Xiang'er Hutong into a tiny cork- and tile-lined coffee bar with a traditionally styled guest room (+ slideshow). More about Office AIO transforms Beijing hutong residence into coffee bar and guest room
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed a 55-storey tower in Beijing with exterior glass panels that function as prisms, capturing and refracting daylight (+ slideshow). More about Trapezoidal glass panels create prismatic facades for SOM's Beijing skyscraper
Studio Ramoprimo based its design for the interior of this Beijing bar on brick walls traditionally found in Italian wine cellars (+ slideshow). More about Studio Ramoprimo creates chevron-patterned brick walls inside Beijing wine bar
These new images by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan offer a look at the MAD-designed Harbin Opera House in China after heavy snowfall (+ slideshow). More about MAD's sinuous Harbin Opera House photographed in the snow by Iwan Baan
Narrowly spaced steel louvres wrap around the exterior of this extension to a house in Beijing, providing privacy and creating linear patterns of light and shadow throughout the minimal white interior (+ slideshow). More about Remix Studio's Shunyi House extension features louvred cladding and an all-white interior
Rotterdam studio MVRDV has revealed its design for a shopping centre with a pearlescent facade, which is on target to complete this summer in central Beijing. More about MVRDV unveils pearlescent shopping centre nearing completion in Beijing
This art museum by Chinese firm Praxis d'Architecture features textured tiled walls, protruding windows and stepping roof terraces that overlook a lake near Beijing (+ slideshow). More about Staggered terraces cover roof of Beijing art museum by Praxis d'Architecture
Chinese architects Lee Chul and Liu Jing punched through the partitions of this small Beijing apartment to create a more open-plan layout with only one door (+ slideshow). More about Lee Chul and Liu Jing knock through walls to open up spaces in a Beijing apartment
A steaming hot spring is screened behind bamboo shoots at this hotel near Beijing, which features seven new suites by local studio Elevation Workshop (+ slideshow). More about Elevation Workshop builds new bamboo cabins around the hot spring at Beijing hotel WHY
Beijing studio MAD has completed an opera house in the Chinese city of Harbin, featuring an undulating form that wraps two concert halls and a huge public plaza (+ slideshow). More about MAD's sinuous Harbin Opera House completes in north-east China
A chunky concrete frame surrounds the glass shopfront of this boutique in Beijing's Chaoyang district, designed by local studio Speys (+ slideshow). More about Speys pairs raw concrete with wood and brass at Beijing boutique Anchoret
Shanghai office Four O Nine has converted a glass building in Beijing into a cafe, adding walls of plants to purify polluted air. More about Four O Nine transforms greenhouse into plant-lined coffee shop
Beijing-based Arch Studio has renovated this house in the city's Dongcheng district, adding a perforated-steel staircase designed to make climbing to the top feel like "walking into the sky". More about Arch Studio adds sculptural white staircase and glass roof extension to Beijing house
Walls based on traditional Chinese screens can be moved to create exhibition spaces within this Beijing art gallery by local firm Arch Studio (+ slideshow). More about Arch Studio adds foldaway walls to Beijing art gallery
Chinese studio People's Architecture Office used metal air conditioning pipes to create giant Chinese characters on the facade of the Tubular Baitasi visitor centre during Beijing Design Week 2015. More about People's Architecture Office uses ventilation pipes to create typographic installation
Architecture studio Penda has unveiled new CGI renderings detailing its vision for a city of 200,000 people that would be creating using an innovative modular bamboo structure. More about Penda unveils vision for bamboo city made from interlocking modular components
Beijing architecture firm Remix Studio has transformed a traditional house in the city's Dashilar area into its own office space, pairing glass and steel with the original wooden structure (+ slideshow). More about Remix Studio renovates Beijing hutong house into office with metal mezzanine