The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron won the bid to build a museum devoted to the history and construction of China’s Grand Canal – a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014 – in the city of Hangzhou, at the junction of the canal and the Hanggang Rive
Zhang Xiaochun In September 2015, with an exhibition themed ‘Heavenly Creations: A World of Southern Rural Crafts,’ the Folk Art Museum of the China Academy of Arts – a project designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma – officially opened to the
Intended as home for a recently acquired collection of 7,000 original pieces from the Bauhaus, this new museum completes the campus of the Chinese Academy of Art.
The initiative for a museum especially designed for this relatively recent art form brings the opportunity to create a platform which will unite the worlds of art and entertainment. By using one of the cartoon’s prime characteristics – the speech bal
The apartments are placed on continuous plinths of stone which, along with a series of walls and balustrades, form the exterior spaces and give residents a command of the water garden around.
Expresada al exterior, la retícula estructural se ha recubierto con paneles plegados de cobre de gran formato cuyo despiece se ha cuidado en extremo, y con piezas más pequeñas colocadas a junta alzada.
On a rhomboidal grid that reflects the forms found in the mountainous topography of the area, the project proposes a new type of university museum, including small tea gardens and located outside Hangzhou.
The new campus of Xiangshan accommodates several faculties of the Academy of Fine Arts, such as the School of Architecture or that of Design. When it was time to determine its location, instead of choosing the district preferred by the government, th
The museum, which will house a collection of archaeological findings from the Liangzhu culture (c. 3000 BC), is named after the place where this civilization was first discovered in 1936, in the Chinese province of Zhejiang. The Liangzhu culture is a
A small valley, bordered by a dense bamboo forest, forms the site for this luxury housing development, situated near the Qiang Tang River in Hangzhou, south-eastern China. The particular charm and beauty of the place are the determining factors. Twel
Stretching a total of 1,776 kilometers, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is one of the most impressive constructions on the planet and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2014, hence the Chinese government’s interest in presenting the histor
Back in the 13th century, Marco Polo described Hangzhou, situated on China’s eastern coast, as “the finest and most splendid city in the world.” Later it went into decline and remained down for centuries. Finally, recent years have seen there an upwa
Using architecture as an emblem, sometimes as a technological lure, is nothing new. Suffice it to remember the recurring association of avant-garde buildings with automobiles, a link forged in times of Le Corbusier and continuing to this day. But aft
El equipo JDS Architects, dirigido por el belga-danés Julien De Smedt, ha resultado el ganador del concurso restringido convocado para construir un hotel de cinco estrellas y un edificio de oficinas en el distrito financiero de Hangzhou, capital de Z
Inspirado en las vasijas Ding, símbolo de riqueza y dignidad en la cultura tradicional china, el proyecto de Norman Foster para la sede corporativa del banco CITIC ha comenzado a construirse en Hangzhou, al este del país. Situado en el distrito de ne
Además de la nueva obra de Foster, la ciudad china de Hangzhou, a 180 kilómetros al sudoeste de Shanghái, contará con un nuevo icono: el edificio para el Museo del Cómic y de la Animación, diseñado por los holandeses MVRDV, ganadores del concurso or
