Exposed brickwork, unfinished plywood and a wall of pivoting metal doors all feature inside the new Beijing office of Chinese architecture firm Spark (+ slideshow). More about Beijing office for architecture firm Spark boasts a swivelling wall and a plywood room
Chinese firm Archi-Union Architects has completed a campus for an art school on the outskirts of Shanghai featuring a clubhouse building with a twisting roof (+ slideshow). More about Twisted roof connects the angular facades of Archi-Union's Songjiang Art Campus clubhouse
News: architect Zaha Hadid is working with airport specialist ADPI on plans for a major new terminal in Daxing, Beijing, that will accommodate 45 million passengers per year. More about Zaha Hadid unveils designs for "world's largest airport passenger terminal" in Beijing
News: construction has started on a vast arts complex designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel for Qingdao, China, featuring a museum, artists' studios and a marina. More about Work begins on Jean Nouvel's woodland arts complex in China
Purple amethyst crystals formed inside rocks provided the inspiration for this ambitious hotel design, proposed by Dutch studio NL Architects for an island off the south coast of China (+ slideshow). More about NL Architects proposes "slightly insane" hotel modelled on amethyst crystals
Chinese studio Naturalbuild has created an office and event space in a Shanghai warehouse that previously belonged to Huang Jinrong – a notorious 1930s underworld figure (+ slideshow). More about Historic Shanghai "gangsters' warehouse" transformed into an office by Naturalbuild
Visitors to this restaurant near Shanghai can enter by crossing a bridge over a lily pond or ascend onto its plant-covered roof to enjoy views of the adjacent lake (+ slideshow). More about Domed roof garden covers Waterfront Restaurant by Pro-form Architects
News: Ole Bouman, former head of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, has been named as the director of a major new design museum developed in collaboration with the V&A in Shekou, Shenzhen. More about Ole Bouman named as director of V&A-backed design museum in China
Spindly orange walkways are raised above the waters and meadows of this wetland park designed by landscape architects Turenscape on a neglected river in China (+ slideshow). More about Turenscape transforms "lifeless ditch" into wetland park with meandering causeways
Round pavilions dotted across the landscaped grounds of this expo centre for a grapevine breeding convention in China were designed to resemble giant grapes, with relief patterns in their concrete facades (+ slideshow). More about Archea Associati creates fruit-inspired buildings for Yanqing Grape Expo
This lagoon-side residence featuring a green copper exterior and a warm cherry-wood interior is part of a series of architect-designed houses built in the grounds of Steven Holl's Nanjing Sifang Art Museum in China (+ slideshow). More about Copper-covered house by Sanaksenaho Architects accompanies Holl's Sifang Art Museum
News: OMA is set to transform part of a former shipyard in Shanghai into a 1,500-square-metre exhibition centre, after winning an international design competition. More about OMA scoops Shanghai exhibition centre competition
News: a pair of 15-storey tower blocks in Shanghai have subsided so much that they now appear to be holding each other up – yet officials have deemed them "safe to live in" (+ slideshow). More about Leaning Shanghai towers declared "safe to live in" by inspectors
Inside Festival 2014: Hong Kong architect Joyce Wang explains how she incorporated her client's "love for metals" into the interior of a luxury Shanghai penthouse (+ movie). More about Xintiandi Penthouse by Joyce Wang is "a celebration of metal"
News: Rem Koolhaas has defended the design of OMA's CCTV tower in Beijing, after the Chinese president called for an end to the construction of "weird architecture" in the country. More about "Chinese architecture will benefit" from CCTV building, says Rem Koolhaas
A grid of muted copper frames the large windows of this slender office building, designed by British architect David Chipperfield for a park-side site in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield's Moganshan Road office building features an all-copper facade
News: construction has started in Chengdu, China, on a 468-metre-high crystalline skyscraper by the architects behind the current and future tallest buildings in the world. More about Construction starts on Smith and Gill's ice-inspired skyscraper for Chengdu
A screen of hollow concrete bricks provides privacy for students using this shower and changing facility at a Shanghai technical college (+ slideshow). More about Hollow concrete blocks form a textured frontage for Wuyang Architecture's student shower block
Dozens of rectangular openings reveal a glazed inner skin behind the yellow granite facade of this canteen building, designed by German studio Knowspace for a Chinese research campus (+ slideshow). More about Canteen building by Knowspace features a granite facade "like lychee skin"
News: Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster have been selected to design high-rise hotels in China for Jumeirah Group. More about Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster chosen to design Chinese hotels