Architecture firm X+Living has renovated a large bookstore in Tianjin, China, using layered brickwork and slatted steel to form wave-like shelves, steps and seating that flow around its central hall. More about Steel slats form sculptural shelves at Tianjin Zhongshuge bookstore by X+Living
Four steel and concrete pavilions linked by glass bridges make up the Tianjin Juilliard School, which New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed in northeastern China. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro completes riverside Tianjin Juilliard School in China
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 about The Wave art gallery in China is wrapped by aluminium scales
Australian practice Cox Architecture designed The National Maritime Museum of China in Tianjin as four metal-clad wings that fan out to overlook Bohai Bay. More about Cluster of hull-like roofs form The National Maritime Museum of China
Bernard Tschumi Architects has completed the Exploratorium museum in China, which has giant industrial chimney-shaped exhibition spaces protruding from its perforated copper coloured exterior. More about Chimney-shaped galleries protrude from Exploratorium museum by Bernard Tschumi
Dutch firm MVRDV has built a public library that looks like a huge eye, as part of a new cultural district in Tianjin, China. More about MVRDV completes library shaped like a giant eye in Chinese city Tianjin
Landscape architects McGregor Coxall has won a competition to design a wetland sanctuary in Tianjin, offering migrating birds a stopover to fatten up and breed. More about McGregor Coxall proposes wetland "bird airport" for northern China
Beijing studio SAKO Architects used all the colours of the rainbow for the playgrounds, classrooms and roof garden of this doughnut-shaped kindergarten in Tianjin, China (+ slideshow). More about Loop Kindergarten by SAKO Architects
GMP Architekten has won a competition to design a 1.2 million-square-metre exhibition centre for Tianjin, China (+ slideshow). More about National Convention and Exhibition Centre, Tianjin by GMP Architekten
One building is the inverse of another at this pair of museums that architect Steven Holl has designed for a new city quarter of Tianjin, China. More about Tianjin Ecocity Ecology and Planning Museums by Steven Holl Architects
Construction is underway on a Olympic-themed museum in Tianjin, China, comprising five connected rings. More about Samaranch Memorial Museum by HAO and Archiland Beijing
Here are some images of an extremely pointy pavilion in Tianjin, China, by Singapore studio Ministry of Design. More about Vanke Triple V Gallery by Ministry of Design
This four-storey school in Tianjin, China, by Vector Architects has a series of irregularly shaped classrooms protruding from the facade on the first floor. More about County Elementary School by Vector Architects
Beijing architects HHD_FUN have completed a temporary office building in Binhai near Tianjin, China, which features a patterned metal skin enclosing verandas. More about YJP Administrative Center by HHD_FUN
Construction is underway on the Sinosteel International Plaza in Tinajin, China designed by Beijing-based architects MAD. More about Sinosteel International Plaza by MAD