Work begins on world's second-tallest skyscraper in Shenzhen
Construction is underway on the Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Centre, a 668-metre-high megatall skyscraper in Shenzhen, China. More
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DJI's headquarters designed by Foster + Partners will feature skybridge to showcase drones
Foster + Partners has integrated a skybridge into its design for a new headquarters for Shenzhen-based robotics company DJI, allowing it to show its latest drones. More
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KPF's bullet-shaped skyscraper nears completion in Shenzhen
This supertall tapered skyscraper designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for the China Resources export company in Shenzhen is nearing completion ahead of its opening later this year. More
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NBBJ completes "vertical campus" for Tencent's headquarters in Shenzhen
The Shenzhen headquarters of Chinese tech giant Tencent is made up of two towers, connected by bridges to encourage staff to meet. More
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Wutopia Lab's pink and blue houses explore ideas of masculine and feminine
Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab painted a pair of houses pink and blue, filling one with meat and the other with flowers, to explore constructs around gender and food for an architecture biennale in Shenzhen. More
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KPF's Shenzhen skyscraper is now fourth tallest in the world
This 599-metre skyscraper in Shenzhen by architecture firm Kohn Pederson Fox is punctuated by "sky lobbies" and crowned by an observation deck offering the loftiest views in the city. More
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Muji offers first look inside its "anti-cheap" hotel in Shenzhen
Wood-lined bedrooms, a minimal diner and a shop all feature inside the Muji Hotel in Shenzhen, which is due to open to the public later this month. More
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Design Society museum in Shenzhen surveys the industry's development with opening exhibitions
A timber pavilion constructed by a robot and a flat-pack chair from the 18th century are among the objects included in the first exhibitions at the V&A-backed Design Society museum in Shenzhen, within spaces designed by MVRDV and Sam Jacob. More
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Mecanoo designs 12 skyscrapers for new business district in Shenzhen
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has won a competition to masterplan a commercial district in Shenzhen, China, with its design for 12 stepped skyscrapers built around a park featuring a raised path and pools. More
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First photographs emerge of Fumihiko Maki's V&A-backed design museum in Shenzhen
These construction shots offer a first glimpse of the new Shenzhen design museum designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, which is opening later this year and will include a new Chinese outpost for the V&A museum. More
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Eight of the best design weeks that are off the beaten track
With the first ever design week underway in the giant industrial city of Shenzhen in China, Dezeen takes a look at some of the newer and more unexpected additions to the calendar – including Riyadh, Medellín and Amman. More
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Latticed framework incorporates seating around the edges of Shenzhen hotel and cultural centre
Shenzhen studio Aether Architects has transformed a derelict residence in the city's Guanwu district into a hotel and cultural centre that is wrapped in a latticed framework of white cubes. More
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Blue-bottomed boxes form Open Architecture's ocean research centre in Shenzhen
Boxy volumes with blue undersides shelter terraces in this deep-ocean research centre in Shenzhen, China, designed by Open Architecture to have sea-like features. More
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Supertall Shenzhen tower by Morphosis reaches full height
A 350-metre-high skyscraper by Morphosis has topped out in Shenzhen, and the US firm claims it will become the "tallest steel building in China". More
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Coop Himmelb(l)au combines flat and curving forms at huge Shenzhen art complex
Triangular facets of stone and shimmering glass provide the irregular form of Coop Himmelb(l)au's Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition, which is now complete in Shenzhen. More
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Foster + Partners uses extra-long bricks for Chinese university campus
Foster + Partners has used custom-made bricks to build a campus near Shenzhen, encompassing a university, a hotel and housing that all take in views of the South China Sea. More
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"We can't stop super-blocks or sprawl, but we have to make space for life in between"
Aaron Betsky finds lessons for western city planners and designers in amongst the mega-blocks, privatised spaces and urban sprawl of Asian cities. More
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World's largest waste-to-energy plant proposed for Shenzhen
Danish firms Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects have won a competition to design the world's largest waste-to-energy power plant in China (+ movie). More
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KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten wins competition to design Shenzhen Art Museum and Library
German studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten's glass-covered design for the Shenzhen Art Museum and Library complex in China beat proposals from a number of star architects. More
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Slatted timber boxes contain dining areas inside Fanbo Zeng's Fun noodle bar
Wooden boxes surrounding the tables of this noodle bar in the Chinese city of Shenzhen frame views of the city skyline, which is visible through a full-height glazed wall. More