OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   China   Construction of this cultural building kicked off in 2012, in accordance with a project led by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten that constituted a typological revision of traditional auditoriums. It is programmed to officially open to the public in t

Snøhetta   China   The result of a 2018 competition, the library that the Norwegian firm Snøhetta is carrying out in the Chinese capital – in collaboration with the local office ECADI – will rise 16 meters and include a ‘forest’ of white columns reaching up to sustain

Barozzi Veiga   China   Located in Ordos, an area of extraordinary beauty in Inner Mongolia, the commission brought on the challenge of building a house that, on one hand would embrace the scenic landscape while facing the extreme climate of the place. The natural features

waa / we architech anonymous   China   The pattern of pipes and the sinuous topography perforate and colonize the old grain sheds and shape a ludic landscape of slides, footbridges, and swings, elements that evoke street play and foster experiential learning.

Open Architecture   China   Two hours by car from the center of Beijing, this open-air concert hall is a work of the firm OPEN, led by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing. Set amid mountains, the concrete building is an inverted cone, textured like a rock where each striation cantilevers o

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   In the Baiyun Central Business District of the city of Guangzhou, the company Infinitus China has inaugurated its new main offices. Containing close to 186,000 square meters, the complex – named Infinitus Plaza – comprises two buildings interconnecte

Clou architects   China   Working from offices in Beijing and Shanghai, Clou Architects built this farming laboratory in the Nanfan High Tech District of the city of Sanya, on tropical Hainan Island. Drawing inspiration from local building tradition, the 4,000-square-meter, 4

Studio Zhu Pei   China   In 798, an entire cultural district located on land which was formerly occupied by Soviet factories, a new art museum completes the program offered by a series of existing sheds. The building’s structure presents brickwork that respects the industria

Studio Zhu Pei   China   In an area located far from the city, a small museum is organized like a traditional Chinese house, surrounding a courtyard protected by the generous eaves of perimetral constructions. Resting on the stone walls that rise from a pool of water accordi

LOLA Landscape Architects Taller architects L+CC   China   Faced with the unrelenting growth of Shenzhen – half a century ago a simple fishing village but now a cutting-edge megalopolis – a rigorous environmental policy was implemented, unprecedented in the country, to regulate the proliferating industrial a

estudioHerreros   China   Subjected to an ambitious urban regeneration process, Unit 8 of the Qianwan area – with the National Museum of China – is bound to become Shenzhen’s epicenter of culture and art. In response to this transformative push, the project proposes a new cit

South China Morning Post   Xinlu Liang   China Evergrande Group, the world’s most indebted developer, was ordered to demolish 39 buildings on Ocean Flower Island, a project comprising three man-made islands developed by the company in China’s southern Hainan province, within 10 days. The or

The Chinese architect Zhu Pei, born in 1962 and trained at Tsinghua University and UC Berkeley, set up his practice in Beijing in 2005, and from there he has produced an extraordinary corpus of cultural works that have made him one of the leading fig

The Economist   From the outside, it resembles an army base, an expanse the size of 45 football pitches filled with rows of austere, grey, three-storey buildings. The facility (pictured) on the outskirts of the southern city of Guangzhou is China’s first purpose-bui

The Economist   Can it be done without harming the wider economy? October 6th 1979 was a beautiful Saturday in Washington. It was not the kind of day that augured wrenching change in economic policy. But on that date Paul Volcker, then chairman of America’s central

CNN   A maglev bullet train that can reach speeds of 600 kilometers per hour (373 miles per hour) has made its debut in Qingdao, China. Developed by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, it's considered the world's fastest train. "Maglev

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The contest between the United States and China traces the outlines of the second Cold War. Both Xi Jinping’s assertive expansionism and Joe Biden’s determined policy of containment paint an oft-repeated historical fresco, that of a power on the rise

South China Morning Post   Sandy Li   Buildings taller than 500 metres (1,640 feet) will no longer be approved, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Towers over 250 metres must be limited, while buildings taller than 100 metres must match the scale and fire

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Millenary China celebrates a centenary. Founded in Shanghai on 1 July 1921, the Chinese Communist Party reaches the anniversary after having led a historic transformation that has turned the country into a political, economic, and technological super

The photography series by Manuel Álvarez Diestro is a look at the growth of new Chinese cities from the windows of bullet trains moving 350 km per hour. China’s railway network links up 550 cities. From Beijing to Shanghai, Tianjin, or Xian, later fr

Global Construction Review   A Chinese manufacturer has once again demonstrated the use of its modular construction method by erecting a 10-storey apartment block in a little over a day. Broad Group accomplished the feat in its home town of Changsha using bolt-together modular u

BBC   China's Zhurong rover has sent back a batch of new images from Mars - including a "selfie". The robot, which landed in May, positioned a wireless camera on the ground and then rolled back a short distance to take the snap. To Zhurong's right is the r

Fu Xinian   Twelve essays