Penda China creates trio of sculptural shell-shaped tunnel entrances in Haikou City
Penda China has built three glazed aluminium-clad entrance canopies to the Haikou Wenming East Road Tunnel in Haikou City, China. More
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Sun Dayong designs wearable shield to protect against coronavirus outbreaks
Chinese architect Sun Dayong has created a conceptual design for a body shield that would protect a wearer during a coronavirus outbreak by using UV light to sterilise itself. More
Urban Cabin by MINI Living and Penda takes cues from Beijing's hutong homes
In our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie, Oke Hauser and Corinna Natter of MINI Living and Penda co-founder Dayong Sun explain how the micro home they built in Beijing references the city's hutong neighbourhoods. More
10 architects imagine the Chinese home of the future for China House Vision exhibition
MAD, Penda and Open Architecture are among 10 Asian studios that have built futuristic concept homes in Beijing, including a living garden, a nomadic Martian pod and a modular home inspired by Beijing's hutongs. More
Penda unveils designs for Tel Aviv tower wrapped in modular arcades
Penda has designed a residential tower in Tel Aviv, with facades made of modular archways and terraces, which aims to complement the city's legacy of Bauhaus architecture. More
Self-sufficient Yin & Yang house incorporates gardens on its interlocking roof
Architecture studio Penda has released visualisations of a house designed for a tiny plot near the German city of Kassel that show how its owners will be able to grow food on both sides of its terraced roof. More
Penda creates house-shaped entrance for hotel in Beijing's XinXian Hutong
A gabled opening that references the forms of traditional hutong houses marks the entrance to this hotel in Beijing by architecture studio Penda. More
Penda proposes "radical future-living concept" with recyclable modular dwellings
Architecture studio Penda has created a modular, flexible and reusable building system for MINI Living, featuring a range of living spaces that can be plugged together to form customised micro homes. More
Penda proposes Toronto Tree Tower built from cross-laminated timber modules
Plants and trees sprout from the modular units that make up this timber-framed high-rise, proposed by architecture firm Penda for Toronto. More
Penda designs modular wooden "village" for Beijing Horticultural Expo
Architecture studio Penda has revealed plans to create a vast network of modular building blocks at the International Horticultural Expo 2019 in Beijing, forming a 30,000-square-metre exhibition space. More
Mirrors reflect arched openings and steps inside wooden auditorium by Penda
Penda has set this auditorium for a Beijing art museum inside a wooden box, which features arched openings, and mirrors that reflect endless iterations of its curved cutaways. More
Penda designs Olympic bridge made up of intersecting rings
Architecture studio Penda has teamed up with engineering firm Arup to design a bridge made up of overlapping rings for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. More
Penda combines stepwells with water mazes for Indian garden design
The design features of Indian stepwells and water mazes are combined in this proposal for a landscaped garden by architecture studio Penda (+ slideshow). More
Penda designs copper "suitcase" to store paintings for Hong Kong art collector
A copper-clad box for storing, exhibiting and selling paintings will stand in the centre of this Hong Kong apartment, designed by Penda for one of China's biggest art collectors (+ slideshow). More
Penda highlights global water crisis with meadow pathway installation
Architecture studio Penda has designed a meadow containing sunken pathways and concealed meeting places, which opens next month as part of China's International Garden Expo 2015. More
Penda unveils vision for bamboo city made from interlocking modular components
Architecture studio Penda has unveiled new CGI renderings detailing its vision for a city of 200,000 people that would be creating using an innovative modular bamboo structure. More
Penda's bamboo pavilion could be expanded to create homes for 200,000 people
Architecture studio Penda has created a rope-bound bamboo pavilion as a mock up of a modular housing system developed to provide sustainable housing schemes for populations of up to 200,000 (+ slideshow). More
Vijayawada tower by Penda will feature modular elements that residents can personalise
Architecture studio Penda has devised a modular facade system for a high-rise block in Vijayawada, India, that will allow residents to customise the appearance of the building with hanging gardens and balcony details (+ slideshow). More
Dandelion-inspired columns create curved arches inside Beijing toy shop by Penda
A network of columns and arches frame this toy shop and cafe inside a retail development in Beijing, referencing the mascot for the shopping centre – a dandelion seedling named Toby (+ movie). More
Penda creates landscape of purple pillars for audio-visual installation in a Chinese park
Visitors to a park in Xiangyang are greeted by over 500 bright purple fins, which are dotted with LEDs and play traditional Chinese music from internal speakers (+ slideshow). More