Fifteen leading architects and designers met last week to decide the winners of Dezeen Awards 2026, in partnership with Trimble, which will be revealed at the Dezeen Awards 2026 party in November. More about Ma Yansong and Daniel Libeskind join Dezeen Awards 2026 master jury in London
Architecture studios MAD and Stantec have placed more than 1,200 curved panels on the "dream-like" Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, which is set to open later this month. More about MAD's spaceship-like Lucas Museum revealed ahead of opening
MAD founder Ma Yansong discusses a range of projects featured in a solo exhibition at Rotterdam's Nieuwe Instituut with curator Aric Chen in this recorded conversation produced by Dezeen. More about "I don't believe in a fixed style or methodology" says Ma Yansong in talk with Aric Chen
Architects Annabelle Selldorf and Ma Yansong have been named on the Time 100 list of most influential people for 2025 by Time magazine. More about Ma Yansong and Annabelle Selldorf named world's most influential architects
Global architecture studio MAD has unveiled ZGC International Innovation Center in Beijing, which features a curving green roof with rippled overhangs. More about MAD tops "clover-like" conference centre in Beijing with undulating green roof
Architect Ma Yansong explains how his studio MAD combined historical and contemporary elements for its first train station in this talk, hosted by Dezeen for the Beijing architecture practice. More about First train station by MAD designed to feel like a "museum about time"
Chinese architecture studio MAD has rebuilt a historic train station in central Jiaxing, China, and expanded it with an underground terminal and public park. More about MAD unveils sunken Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing
At Fendi's autumn winter 24 menswear show in Milan, the fashion house unveiled sneakers and handbags designed by MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong as an "extension of the experience of architecture and the city". More about Ma Yansong makes first foray into fashion design with futuristic Fendi accessories
Architects Ma Yansong and Rossana Hu, interior designers André Fu and Alex Mok and furniture designer Frank Chou have been announced as the first five Dezeen Awards China judges. More about Ma Yansong, Rossana Hu and André Fu named judges for Dezeen Awards China 2023
MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong has unveiled The City of Time installation and events space on the beach in Aranya, northern China. More about Ma Yansong creates maze-like performance space for Chinese festival
Architect Ma Yansong has created Timeless Beacon, an installation constructed from multicoloured fishing nets and reflective film that covers an abandoned market building in China. More about Ma Yansong decorates abandoned building with colourful fishing-net installation
Dezeen is teaming up with Chinese studio MAD to host a live talk about the future of Beijing with the firm's founder Ma Yansong, architect Peter Cook and the founders of Drawing Architecture Studio. More about Watch a live talk with Ma Yansong, Peter Cook and Drawing Architecture Studio
Architect Ma Yansong, the curator of Blueprint Beijing, a feature exhibition exploring the future of the Chinese capital at the 2022 Beijing Biennial, shares six of his highlight installations from the show. More about Ma Yansong picks six highlights from his Blueprint Beijing exhibition
In the first instalment of Dezeen's Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim, MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong explains how his studio's sinuous concrete library in Haikou, China, encourages visitors to use their imagination. More about MAD's undulating concrete library "doesn't say too much" says Ma Yansong
Dezeen is teaming up with Holcim to launch Concrete Icons, a new video series profiling the most iconic contemporary concrete buildings by the world's leading architects. More about Dezeen and Holcim launch Concrete Icons video series with Ma Yansong interview
Dezeen has teamed up with MAD Architects for a series of talks on social housing. In the first talk, MAD founder Ma Yansong discusses the studio's Baiziwan project in Beijing. More about Watch a live talk with MAD Architects about its first social housing project in China
Dezeen promotion: a new book presents 17 years of visionary projects by Chinese architect Ma Yansong and his studio MAD, from organically shaped skyscrapers to rooftop landscapes. More about MAD Rhapsody showcases 23 projects by Ma Yansong's studio
MAD architecture studio-founder Ma Yansong's has unveiled his Light artwork in a rural tea field in China. More about Ma Yansong creates lantern-like artwork in rural Chinese tea field
MAD co-founder Ma Yansong says that Chinese cities should draw more from the country's traditional architecture, rather than aping the style of western buildings, in the second part of our exclusive video interview. More about Chinese cities are still copying architecture from other countries, says Ma Yansong
In this video interview filmed at the RIBA International Conference, Chinese architect Ma Yansong of MAD spells out why he believes architects should be proposing visionary ideas for the future, rather than cozying up to developers. More about Ma Yansong: "Architects need to talk about what the future is"