Erected after the devastating earthquake that struck Wenchuan – a county in China’s Sichuan province – in 2008, this memorial honors Hu Huishan, a 15-year-old high-schooler who perished in the cataclysm. The pavilion’s shape recalls the emergency ten
The Lujiatan Wetland Park Commercial Service Center, designed by MUDA-Architects under the direction of Lu Yun, is situated in Wenjiang District, Chendu City. The environs of the Jinma and Minjiang inspired the fluid and rhythmic forms of the complex
A dreamlike construction seeks to pay homage to the popular literary genre that has thrived in a city of millenarian tradition now turned into a dynamic hub of scientific innovation and research.
Drawing from local building tradition, the Jincheng multipurpose space hosts activities essential to the inhabitants of Xiaoshi Village, in Pengzhou, reconstructed after the 2008 earthquake that shook Sichuan Province. A work of the Chinese firm Stud
The firms Rem Koolhaas – OMA and gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner are the winners of the competition to draw up the masterplan and architectural design for Chengdu Future Science and Technology City, located 50 kilometers from Chengdu and
Based on the combination of vernacular methods and materials and digital techniques, the bamboo village represents a natural, artisanal, and socioeconomic utopia.
The Hualin Temporary Elementary School in the Chinese city of Chengdu replaces the old building that was torn down by the Sichuan earthquake of May 2008. The structure, made of paper tubes, was assembled by thirty architecture students of Keio Univer
Revestido mediante una piel permeable de piezas cerámicas, el museo Xinjin Zhi se ubica al pie de la montaña Laojunshan, en el suroeste del país, y actúa como puerta de entrada a este lugar sagrado taoísta, mostrando la esencia de la doctrina a travé
This complex situated at the heart of the city of Chengdu is organized in sculptural mixed-use blocks arranged around a green public plaza that alludes to local tradition.
Inspired by classic Chinese gardens, the building was constructed with brick walls whose sinuous, seemingly random bond was the result of applying digital calculation tools.
A series of exhibition halls of different sizes, bathed in natural daylight, form a promenade around courtyards hidden behind a large wall raised with filigrees of local brick.
When, after a period of meditation and reflection, prince Siddhartha decided to extend his doctrine to the rest of humankind, he preached his first sermon in Deer Park near Benares. In Chinese, the word ‘luye’ literally means ‘a field with deer’ and,
