Open Architecture   China   Combining curved and rectilinear forms, the complex is divided into five concrete blocks separated by gardens themed around the four seasons and connected by raised semi-outdoor corridors. Oriented inward, the project draws inspiration from the nearb

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

Open Architecture   China   The firm headed by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, Open Architecture, working from offices in New York and Beijing, has designed a campus for the Qingpu Pinghe International School in Shanghai, which has students aged 4 through 18. One of the buildings, the

Open Architecture   China   In the coastal city of Qinhuangdao, between sea and sand, a series of underground concrete galleries gives form to a museum for the UCCA, a leading Chinese independent institution of contemporary art. Designed by Open Architecture, the Beijing firm f

Open Architecture   China   The first prototype of the hex-sys modular system for temporary showrooms is close to the new railway station of Guangzhou, China, although it could have gone up anywhere. Modular, reconfigurable, and reusable, it is formed by 40-square-meter tessell

Catherine Shaw (ed.)   Reinventing cultural architecture