Selgascano   China   The Spanish firm Selgascano has won the competition to build a cultural center in Beijing that will redefine the cityscape of Beijing’s Xicheng district. At ground level, a grand public exhibition space with transparent facades invites the community

van Bergen Kolpa Architects   China   The Dutch firm founded by Jago van Bergan and Evert Kolpa was commissioned to design this innovation center for urban production of fruit and vegetables in Beijing. Built for the horticultural company AgriGarden and the Chinese Academy of Agricultura

MAD Architects   China   This is the permanent venue of the ZGC Forum, an annual conference, in the Zhongguancun area of Beijing’s Haidian district. Known as China’s Silicon Valley, Zhongguancun is a major technology center inhabited by many firms and institutions devoted to

Snøhetta   China   The new center is a quiet oasis of culture in the district where the Chinese capital’s local administration has been concentrating, a ‘sub-center’ that seeks to slow down the crowding of the heart of the metropolis. Protected by a flat roof with larg

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   The warehouse of an old cotton textile factory outside the Chinese capital has been refurbished to harbor the main office and the retail concept store of a historical pastry brand. In allusion to their baking-industry uses, the brick buildings were t

ArchStudio    China   An everyday universe with echoes of Taoist cosmology and Confucian hierarchy, the Chinese courtyard-house has for thousands of years been the archetype that organizes family life. Although in the last century it had detractors who found it obsolete a

Wang Ni Zhang Dawei   China   This new construction is located at the western end of the China Resources University campus, in Xiong’an New Area of Beijing. Surrounded by red brick buildings, the complex is sunken 1.5 meters into the ground to reduce its visual impact on the are

Vector Architects   China   On a slope of the Yanshan Mountains in northern China, at one end of the east-west axis that crosses Beijing, the theater rises as a material symbol of the contrast between the sinuous natural landscape and the vast open urban setting of the city. Th

Snøhetta   China   The Beijing Sub-Center Library celebrates a public space for learning, information exchange, and discussion. It aims to set the benchmark for future library design in many aspects – from building and enclosure technology, social and environmental sus

waa / we architech anonymous   China   Playgrounds emerged during modernity, and constitute small oases that separate children from a city for which they are still not prepared. Robert Moses saw them as symbols of democracy; Aldo van Eyck, as spaces that are fundamental for social integra

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to build Phase II of the International Exhibition Center near Capital International Airport, in Beijing’s Shunyi District. Encompassing 438,500 square meters and rising 45 meters at most, the project enla

ArchStudio    China   Bringing contemporary life into this traditional courtyard without diminishing memory was the objective of a project fundamentally pursuing dialogue between past and present. Located in a typical alley or hutong in old Beijing, the construction falls

MAD Architects   China   A semi-transparent glass facade wraps the new volume, which contains a concert hall seating 1,600 spectators covered with a ceiling of white reflecting petals that allows lighting and visualizations be projected for musical performances...

MAD Architects   China   A chromatic roof is the highlight in the conversion of a traditional siheyuan courtyard into a preschool center that is remarkable, too, in its openness to daylight and vegetation. The principal strategy of the project involved wrapping the preexisti

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   The Shanghai firm headed by Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu were tasked to renovate an old brick building containing two levels of offices, to combine this use with a cultural center including a library, an exhibition hall, and a multipurpose space for 10

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   In Daxing District, 46 kilometers south of Tiananmen Square, is the world's largest terminal in a single building, designed by Zaha Hadid, who died in 2016. Daxing International Airport was built to decongest the Chinese capital's airport at Chaoyang

LLLab   China   Near the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China, in Beigou Village, within the boundaries of the city of Beijing, is this hotel conceived as a small village by LLLab., a firm running offices in Shanghai, Stuttgart, and Porto, headed by Hanxiao L

Vector Architects   China   The M Woods Entrance Revitalization is an urban renewal project in the 798 Art Zone of Beijing. The site was originally an abandoned industrial warehouse and then started functioning as an art museum from 2014 onwards. The museum management decided t

Vector Architects   China   Located in the core of Beijing’s old town, the building is part of an urban operation that aims to improve life quality through the renovation of several courtyard-buildings of the traditional zayuan type, formed by an irregular open space and a clus

Kengo Kuma   China   By the east gate of the Forbidden City, in the heart of Beijing, an old siheyuan-style house is renovated with four types of modular polyethylene blocks that let natural light pass through and fill the interior spaces. 

Kengo Kuma   China   The site in Qianmen East is located within walking distance of Beijing landmarks like Tiananmen Square and Chang’an Avenue, and it used to be a district with many classical Qing/Ming-styled courtyard-houses. However, with the explosive growth of popu

MAD Architects   China   With offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, New York, and Rome, Ma Yansong’s firm MAD has finished renovating a house in an old hutong, revitalizing the Chinese capital’s traditional alley where dwellings are arranged around courtyards and toilets are ofte

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Designed by Zaha Hadid before she died on March 2016, Leeza SOHO contains the world’s tallest atrium (194,16 meters), which whirls around the building upward. Rising in the Chinese capital’s Fengtai business district, the tower contains 172,800 squar

The partial liberalization of the market for architectural projects in China has in past years led to a hatching of young practices bent on exploring paths other than those of official corporativism or the ‘weird architecture’ of international stardo

A currently fashionable theme – and real-estate attraction – in the world of Chinese architecture is the renovation of hutongs, those alleys of popular dwellings of yore, closely huddled around a courtyard, especially in the country’s capital. Ma Yan

The death of the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid three years ago, in 2016, did not bring an end to her thriving firm, as many said it would. On the contrary, it stayed on board a vigorous internationalization phase that has seen the construction o

Vladimir Belogolovsky   In an interview at his studio, Gong Dong analyzes his architecture and explains the projects as the result of a demanding and solitary work process.

Luca Molinari   Respect for nature and critical reinterpretation of building tradition: these are two features of the generation of Chinese architects to which Gong Dong belongs.

Liu Dongyang   Gong Dong studied in Tsinghua and Illinois, and set up Vector Architects just over ten years ago, a studio whose work has soon earned international recognition.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Gong Dong builds with light and with matter. The Beijing architect was dazzled by light on the other side of the Pacific, through his post-graduate training in Illinois; he built luminous and somber works on the coasts of China and deep in the countr

Gong Dong   Since the early 1980s, China’s focus has been fundamentally shifted towards economic development. And it was not until that time that the country opened its doors to integrate with the world. Reflecting in the practice of architecture and the theoret

The first gates of cities were the triumphal arches through which enlightened governments sought to imitate ancient Rome; later, the grand foyers of train stations, true monuments of the industrial city. Today we have the airports, symbols of global

Zaha Hadid's Beijing Airport

Many predicted that the death of Zaha Hadid – quintessential example of signature architecture – would compromise the future of her studio.They were wrong: almost three years after the British-Iraqi succumbed to a heart attack, Zaha Hadid Architects

The Economist   Beyond the Great Wall and the chain of rugged hills through which it snakes, workers are putting the finishing touches to a colossal edifice. The beams of its roof are curved. The China Pavilion, as the structure is called, is for an international fl

The leadership of the Communist Party is very worried: China is growing by only 7.4%, the lowest rate since the Tiananmen revolt in 1990. Some analysts consider this slow growth proof of the depletion of a system based exclusively on exports and offe

Después de treinta meses de construcción, acaba de finalizarse el complejo Galaxy Soho (arriba) de Zaha Hadid y Patrick Schumacher: 330.000 metros cuadrados en el distrito pekinés de Dongcheng que se destinarán a usos comerciales, entretenimiento, of

Un ‘donut gigante’ diseñado por el estudio pekinés BIAD UFo albergará el centro internacional de comunicaciones de la compañía china Phoenix, dedicada a la televisión por satélite. Ubicada en el parque Chaoyang, el más grande de la ciudad, la estruct

El centro de arte contemporáneo Ullens de Pekín acoge, hasta el 20 de junio, la instalación ‘Feelings are facts’, resultado de la colaboración entre el artista danés Olafur Eliasson y el arquitecto chino Ma Yansong. Ambos han creado una habitación co

The Bird’s Nest, Herzog & de Meuron in China, de Christoph Schaub y Michael Schindhelm, esboza un retrato de noventa minutos sobre el proceso de construcción del Estadio Olímpico de Pekín y el diseño del área residencial y parque de Jinhua. El docume

Malos augurios en la celebración del Año Nuevo chino: un voraz incendio ha devastado el TVCC, uno de los edificios proyectado por OMA para la sede de la televisión estatal china (CCTV). Según la versión oficial, los fuegos artificiales que los emplea

Thomas Campanella   Desde hace ahora una década, el año 2008 se ha dibujado en la imaginación colectiva como el annus mirabilis de China. El motivo ha sido, por supuesto, la celebración de los XXIX Juegos Olímpicos, un acontecimiento que se prefigura como un hito glorio

Rosemary Righter   Hace quince años, ese maestro de la astucia política que era Deng Xiaoping realizó un conocido viaje hacia el sur, desde Pekín hasta Shenzhen, cerca de la frontera con Hong Kong. Fue el momento en que sorteó de manera decisiva a los integrantes del B

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The 2008 Olympic Games symbolically endorse China’s protagonism in today’s world: the planet’s largest nation flaunts its economic power and organizational skills through a sports, political and urban event that puts the ‘Middle Kingdom’ at the cente

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