A campus-like park of concrete offices topped with green roofs forms the new Vanke Design Community in Shenzhen, featuring two sunken plots completed by architecture practice FCHA. More about Vanke Design Community is cluster of workspaces topped by parks
Mirrored ceilings and zigzag staircases help form the perplexing interiors of this bookstore in south-west China, which has been designed by architecture studio X+Living. More about X+Living creates the illusion of a myriad of staircases at Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore
Greenery-filled courtyards and waffle ceilings bring light to the interiors of this concrete restaurant, which Vector Architects has erected near the shore of Beidaihe, China. More about Indoor courtyards interrupt Restaurant y Sea in northeast China
Designed as the first ever cross-border cable car the Blagoveshchensk – Heihe Cable Car will be built across the Amur River, which marks the border between eastern Russia and China. More about UNStudio set to connect Russia and China with world's first international cable car
Architecture practices OMA and CCDI have won the competition to design the International Conference and Exchange Centre on the waterfront in Shenzhen. More about OMA to create waterfront conference centre in Shenzhen
The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University has completed a new hall for the Shaoxing Hotel in eastern China. More about UAD merges traditional and contemporary forms for Shaoxing Hotel hall
Spools of scarlet thread and huge sheets of steel make an unconventional pairing inside this store in Chongqing, China, which Joy Season Studio has created for independent fashion label Annakiki. More about Joy Season Studio makes red the "protagonist" of Chongqing's Annakiki store
Architecture studio Various Associates has fashioned monochromatic interiors with mirrored surfaces and unusual fur-covered partitions, for this womenswear store in Chongqing, China. More about Slanted walls frame monochrome display areas in Chongqing's SND boutique
Henning Larsen designed the white angular volumes of Hangzhou Yuhang Opera to look like ice floes on a lake. More about Henning Larsen completes iceberg-like opera house in Hangzhou
Chinese architecture studio Geedesign has completed a library in Hefei, China, with arcing stone-clad walls, planted courtyards and roof terraces. More about Curving stone walls surround the Hefei River Central Smart Garden Library in China
AZL Architects has completed Song House, a concrete five-bedroom house adapted to the needs of its elderly and infirm occupants in the rural village of Nansong, China. More about AZL Architects wraps wheelchair ramp around multi-generational house
Plaster, concrete and shiny steel merge to form the greyscale interiors of this menswear store in Zhengzhou, China, which has been designed by Atelier Tao+C. More about Grey tones pervade interiors of Zhengzhou's JHW store
Drawing Architecture Studio has enclosed the balcony of a two-bedroom apartment in Beijing to make it resemble the front facade of a typical detached house. More about Curved roof transforms Free Balcony An into an elevated tearoom
Architecture studio MAD has designed a theatre for the city of Yiwu, China, which will be surrounded by water and topped with "glass sails" to give it the appearance of a boat sailing on a river. More about MAD designs Yiwu Grand Theater to look like a Chinese junk
The all-white rooms of the Annso Hill Hotel in Tengchong City, western China, are covered with a traditional tiled roof, which is broken by a zigzagging entrance. More about Studio QI cuts zigzagging entrance into sloped tiled roof of Annso Hill Hotel
The Jiangsu Beisha Kindergarten in China has been conceived as a miniature village, with a cluster of house-like structures clustered around a square and connected via winding paths and raised walkways. More about Crossboundaries designs "mini village" for kindergarten in rural China
A system of hydraulics opens and closes three panels of this visitor centre in Xiahuayuan Village, China, depending on the temperature outside. More about Operable Interactive Village Hut opens and closes depending on the temperature
Metal shingles cover the folding forms of the Park Legend Kindergarten in Chengdu, China, built by Challenge Design to mimic the peaks of nearby mountains. More about Challenge Design's metal-clad kindergarten folds around a courtyard
Mozhao Architects has added a furniture shop and tea house to a technology park in Shenzhen, in a series of six concrete blocks. More about Six interlocking concrete blocks form Living Art Pavilion in Shenzhen
Shanghai studio Archi-Union Architects mimics traditional Chinese calligraphy in its latest project, a rural cultural centre in Sichuan province, featuring a sweeping tiled roof that flows into a central courtyard. More about Archi-Union references calligraphy in curving tiled roof of Inkstone House cultural centre