Atelier Scale designs The Folds playground to encourage tactile play
Atelier Scale has created The Folds, a small community playground in Changzhou, China, as a place for children to explore in a more tactile and less regulated way than usual. More
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Chinese ruins transformed into museum by Shenzhen Horizontal Design
A white-concrete gallery that slots into the ruins of a brick house is among the three exhibition spaces that make up the Zhang Yan Cultural Museum in China. More
Chinese granaries transformed into art centre with sweeping brick corridors
Shanghai studio Roarc Renew has slotted two sweeping brick corridors between a pair of disused granaries in Jiaxing, China, to create the TaoCang Art Centre. More
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Collection of 18 mirrored mountain cabins form hotel in Hubei province
Chinese architecture studios Wiki World and Advanced Architecture Lab have designed an array of 18 timber cabins clad in mirrors for a hotel in Yichang, Hubei province. More
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The Wave art gallery in China is wrapped by aluminium scales
Shanghai-based studio Lacime Architects has completed The Wave gallery on the coast of Tianjin, China, which is clad in thousands of aluminium tiles and resembles a giant surge of water. More
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OMA builds metal and glass campus headquarters for Tencent in Beijing
OMA has housed the Tencent Beijing Headquarters in China within a giant glass building that is punctured by geometric insets and has interiors that mimic a small city. More
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Onexn Architects squeezes Shenzhen micro cafe into gap narrower than a parking space
Chinese studio Onexn Architects has squeezed Joys cafe into a space less than 2.6 metres wide in a street in Shenzhen, which used to house an air conditioner repair shop. More
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Cascade of sky gardens to crown Shenzhen children's hospital by B+H Architects
An "urban living room" and rooftop gardens will animate the Shenzhen Children's Hospital and Science and Education Building, which B+H Architects is developing in China. More
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Zaha Hadid Architects unveils Chinese football stadium with "garden terraces"
Plant-filled terraces, a translucent roof and palatial columns adorn the Xi'an International Football Centre stadium that Zaha Hadid Architects is developing for central China. More
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Trade show pavilion transformed into furniture for rural Chinese community
Furniture Pavilion S is a modular structure that Rooi Design and Research created for a Chinese trade show, before recycling its plywood body into chairs and tables. More
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MVRDV to convert disused Shenzhen factory into creative office space
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has announced its plans to renovate a deteriorating concrete building in Shenzhen, China, to create the If Factory offices and a maze-like roof garden. More
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Atelier XÜK converts disused Chinese primary school into boutique hotel
Shanghai architecture studio Atelier XÜK has created a series of timber interventions to turn a former school in Qinyong, China into a hotel while leaving its original, solid masonry structure intact. More
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MAD reveals Wormhole Library overlooking the South China Sea
Chinese architecture studio MAD has designed a library in the city of Haikou, China that is intended "to be a wormhole that transcends time and space". More
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Zaha Hadid Architects shares proposal for Shanghai's "greenest building"
Zaha Hadid Architects has shared its design for the CECEP Shanghai Campus in China, which will utilise renewable energy technologies and recycled materials. More
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Foster + Partners designs "porous" Apple store in Beijing
A large overhanging roof shelters the expansive glass walls that front the "open and inviting" Apple Sanlitun store by Foster + Partners in Beijing, China. More
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Folded facades invite visitors into iADC Design Museum in Shenzhen
Hong Kong studio Rocco Design Architects has created the folded facades of the iADC Design Museum in Shapu to be a visual representation of Shenzhen's "design spirit". More
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TAOA designs see-through walls for Landscape House in Beijing
Glass walls and perforated metal screens help to blur the boundaries between inside and outside for this house in Beijing by architecture studio TAOA. More
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Gad Line+ Studio perches white cloud-like pavilion to overlook sacred mountain in China
White membrane stretches over the curved rooftop of Jiunvfeng Study, a mountainside visitor centre built by Gad Line+ Studio above Dongximen Village in Shangdong, China. More
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Ten significant concrete buildings featured in Chinese Brutalism Today
Alberto Bologna spotlights 10 key buildings from his book Chinese Brutalism Today, which examines the enduring trend of concrete architecture in China. More
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C+ Architects perches glass restaurant above dramatic mountain landscape
Floating Island Restaurant by C+ Architects features a glazed dining room on stilts cantilevering from a hillside overlooking mountains in Chongquing, China. More
