China plans solar power station in space
China is planning to build the world's first solar power station in space to provide "inexhaustible clean energy", according to reports. More
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Open Architecture designs Chapel of Sound concert hall to look like hollowed-out boulder
Open Architecture is building a concert hall in a valley north of Beijing, designed to look "as if a strange and prehistoric boulder had fallen there long ago". More
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Dezeen to co-host Assembly 2019 talks programme at Design Shanghai
Dezeen is co-hosting a programme of architecture and design panel discussions at Design Shanghai on 7 and 8 March 2019. More
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Mecanoo completes giant red cultural centre in China
The Longgang Cultural Centre in Shenzhen, China, occupies a row of four angular red buildings designed by Mecanoo. More
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Trace Architecture Office completes coffee processing facility and hotel in China
Beijing-based architecture studio Trace Architecture Office has completed the Xinzhai Coffee Manor complex in the Yunnan Province, China, which processes coffee from the surrounding hills and is a hotel for visitors to the area. More
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Tour BigPixel's interactive 195-gigapixel image of Shanghai
Our latest captioned movie explores a 195-gigapixel panoramic image of Shanghai, created by Chinese technology firm BigPixel. More
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Wutopia Lab wraps visitor centre with striped wall inspired by nautical shirts
Shanghai-based architecture studio Wutopia Lab has revamped a tourism company's entrance office into the Striped House visitor centre in Qinhuangdao, China. More
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LUO Studio reuses wood salvaged from traditional houses to create Luotuowan Pergola
Luotuowan Pergola's undulating geodesic canopy has been made by LUO Studio from wooden beams salvaged during the renovation of Luotuowan village in China. More
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Wuyuan Skywells hotel occupies a 300-year-old building in rural China
Anyscale Architecture Design made only subtle interventions to this centuries-old building in rural China to transform it into this boutique hotel, which features a host of original decor details. More
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Stainless steel partition frames fashion boutique by Xian Xiang Design
A stainless steel wall with rose-tinted windows sits at the centre of the Wellsky store in Hangzhou, China, designed by Xian Xiang Design. More
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Lacime Architects arranges leisure centre in Suzhou around reflective pools
Lacime Architects based the layout of Shimao Longyin Leisure Centre, in China, around a series of classical Chinese gardens to create serene outdoor circulation areas. More
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World's longest 3D-printed concrete bridge opens in Shanghai
A team led by professor Xu Weiguo at the Tsinghua University School of Architecture in Beijing has 3D-printed a 26.3-metre-long concrete bridge, which they claim is the world's longest. More
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Selldorf Architects' visitor centre will open Forbidden City palace to public for first time
Selldorf Architects will design the Qianlong Garden Interpretation Center within a palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, which has never been opened to the public. More
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Studio 10 designs illusory Escher-inspired interiors for guesthouse in China
Maze-like stairways and optical illusions are designed to trick the eyes of lodgers at this MC Escher-inspired guesthouse in the city of Guilin, China. More
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Six emerging Chinese designers showcased in Rising Talents exhibition at Maison&Objet
Maison&Objet's Rising Talent Awards 2019 have focused on six young Chinese designers that are redefining traditional forms with innovative materials and modern shapes. More
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David Chipperfield embeds red natural-history museum into sloping earth
David Chipperfield's Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in China is a cluster of monolithic exhibition halls arranged around a garden on a sloping site. More
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Jade + QA unveils "groundscraper" hotel in Chinese quarry
The Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental hotel has opened within a 88-metre-deep abandoned quarry near Shanghai. More
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Chimney-shaped galleries protrude from Exploratorium museum by Bernard Tschumi
Bernard Tschumi Architects has completed the Exploratorium museum in China, which has giant industrial chimney-shaped exhibition spaces protruding from its perforated copper coloured exterior. More
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Genshang's Shanghai restaurant designed by Office Coastline as "gentle sequence of spaces"
A copper facade frames the grey stone interior of this dining and retail space in Shanghai designed by local firm Office Coastline. More
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195-gigapixel photo of Shanghai allows viewers to zoom in on street-level detail
Faces and licence plates are among the details that can be clearly seen in an ultra-high-resolution bird's-eye photograph of Shanghai, created by Chinese company Bigpixel Technology. More
