MAD Architects   China   The idea of nature in the east – connected to the cultivation of the spirit – gives rise to the concept of city committed to the emotional well-being of its dwellers. True to this premise, the Beijing-based studio of Ma Yansong proposes a sports park

MAD Architects   China   A project drawn up by Ma Yansong, MAD Architects, in collaboration with the China Academy of Building Research (CASR) is the winner in the competition to design an international cruise hub at the city of Chongqing’s Cuntan Port. It will include a 15,

MAD Architects   China   The scheme that has won the international competition for the Zhuhai Cultural Arts Center involves a sensitive handling of centuries-old Yinkeng Village, which belongs to the city of Zhuhai, in China’s Guangdong province. Choosing not to demolish the

MAD Architects   China   This seamless-looking white structure molded in concrete contains a sinuous library and a block of mixed amenities – cafés, public restrooms, a nursery room, among others – for the citizens of Haikou, capital of Hainan, China’s southernmost province.

MAD Architects   China   The practice established by Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects, which runs offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Rome, and Jiaxing, was commissioned by the Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum to design this venue for its annual summits in Yabuli, in the nort

MAD Architects   United States   This mixed-use building is the first project carried out by MAD Architects, the firm of Ma Yansong (Beijing, 1975), in the United States. Located in Beverly Hills, at 8600 Wilshire Boulevard, the 4,460-square-meter complex named Gardenhouse presents

MAD Architects   China   The building, included in the Haikou Bay rejuvenation plan, will house a new public space. The continuous white concrete structure lets natural light pass through holes and conceals the installations, creating visual consistency...

MAD Architects   China   Built using concrete mixed with local sand and seashells, the museum is designed as an island with interior galleries that seem to be carved by the tides. It establishes a formal and visual dialogue with its environment, to which it is connected phys

MAD Architects   Netherlands   The conversion of the Fenix warehouse into a museum of migration incorporates a public atrium and a theatrical stairway that will allow users to move throughout the space. It will be the first MAD-designed public cultural building in Europe...

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   The design center for the fashion group Xinhee and its six subsidiary brands has a star-shaped layout, generating an efficient and flexible space capable of adapting to the local climate thanks to open porches and a central atrium that enable ventila

MAD Architects   China   The sports facilities blend into a public park whose design will attract citizens to practicing exercise. Facades disappear into the terrain, covered by greenery, and contours are engraved into the surface, some forming pedestrian pathways.

MAD Architects   China   Five departure corridors are arrayed in a snowflake shape to shorten distances and permit high airplane traffic. Ridges on the roof function as skylights, taking the warmth of sunlight to the interior spaces, which are connected to nature through ind

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

MAD Architects   China   The Chinese firm MAD Architects, headed by Ma Yansong, has unveiled its masterplan and architectural design for an ambitious cultural complex with a total built area of 182,000 square meters. Located within the Houhai area of Shenzhen’s Nanshan distr

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

MAD Architects   France   The cantilevers of MAD’s first residential building in Europe, constructed with white concrete, wrap around the facade to give splendid views of the Eiffel Tower.

MAD Architects   China   Ma Yansong’s Beijing-based firm MAD designed this theater complex like a boat floating on the Dongyang River in Yiwu, in China’s Zhejiang province. Its design won an international competition in which Arata Isozaki & Associates, Atelier Christian de

MAD Architects Elenberg Fraser   Australia   A cantilevered structure crowns the tower offering panoramic views of Melbourne. The ETFE membrane facade presents different degrees of transparency, becoming translucent towards the edges to emulate the image of a cloud... [+]

DGLa MAD Architects   France   The design creates an optical illusion by setting every glass panel of the facade at a specific angle, in such a way that the building itself is transformed into a city-scale concave mirror, creating the mirage of a Paris that seems to hang from the

MAD Architects   Canada   While the stacking accomplished in these two high-rises helps to densify the neighborhood through residential uses, their wiggly shapes make them a visual landmark in the city.

MAD Architects   China   Dreamlike but not at the cost of profitability, this high-density development distributes its close to 500,000 square meters in two soft volumes colonized by vegetation.

MAD Architects   China   Located in Kangbashi, one of the new districts of the city of Ordos created on terrains which previously belonged to the Gobi Desert, the museum addresses the particular urban planning of the area – a masterplan of strict radial geometry around a lar

Alberto Ballesteros   Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? The greatest metaphysical question is the opening line of one of rock’s most famous hymns, and the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody rings as one leafs through this book: between the oneiric forms of the photos

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

It is difficult to name a country where the modern program of social reform and hygienization through housing has been as strong as in France. In the 1920s, Le Corbusier declared architecture to be a crucial instrument in addressing societal ills Arc

Preserving the character of natural landscapes constitutes one of the challenges being addressed by builders of the 21st century, including the members of the Chinese firm MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, Qun Dang, and Yosuke Hayano and working mai

Last year the Chinese president Xi Jinping condemned the “weird architecture” that was proliferating in the country, often thanks to foreign architects, and announced a period in which buildings would tend to be designed with a certain patriotic spir

El nuevo Museo de Arte y Ciudad diseñado por el estudio chino MAD está situado en Ordos, una ciudad de reciente creación emplazada en plena estepa semidesértica en el suroeste de la Mongolia Interior (China) y diseñada según un plan director del arti

El singular paisaje invernal de Harbin —la ciudad más importante del norte de China— ha inspirado la propuesta del estudio pequinés MAD para el nuevo museo de esculturas chinas de madera. La piel del edificio adopta la forma orgánica de un fluido con

Ma Yansong   Nueva York  2021  
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