China

Aranda\Lasch creates exhibition design for Kaws retrospective in Shanghai

June 23, 2017 Alice Morby 0

Kaws’ eight-metre high sculptures skim the ceiling of the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, which is currently hosting the artist’s first retrospective in Asia and features exhibition designs by Aranda\Lasch. The New York- and Arizona-based design firm, founded by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch in 2009, based its design around the large-scale works Kaws produces. “Kaws likes to

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Sloping black volumes penetrate public square at Harbin’s Exhibition Hall of Crime Evidences

June 11, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A tilted and fractured black box that emerges from a public square in the Chinese city of Harbin contains display areas dedicated to telling the story of war crimes committed during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The Exhibition Hall of Crime Evidences is located on the site of the ruined barracks used by Unit 731

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Foster and Heatherwick complete Shanghai theatre with curtain-like facade

June 9, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Images have emerged of a new arts and culture centre by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio, which forms part of a new financial quarter the two firms are building on Shanghai’s waterfront. The Fosun Foundation is the centrepiece of the Bund Finance Center, a new mixed-use complex designed by Norman Foster’s architecture firm and Thomas Heatherwick’s

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Undulating paving connects inside and outside spaces at Twisting Courtyard house

June 9, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Beijing practice Arch Studio has renovated a traditional courtyard house in the Chinese capital, adding grey-brick paving that flows from the floor of the outdoor space to form internal walls and roofs. The building is situated in Beijing’s Dashilanr district, south of Tiananmen Square, and was given the title Twisting Courtyard by Arch Studio. The

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Glazed meditation room overlooks traditional courtyard from Nanjing home

June 7, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Ming Gu Design has grafted a glazed meditation area onto this historic home in Nanjing, China, which projects out to overhang a central courtyard. The Nanjing-based architecture studio added the gabled meditation room, which features glass walls, to the centre of the heritage-listed house. The meditative space protrudes outwards and overhangs the base of the existing structure of the house, appearing as

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Photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li provide first look at Ole Scheeren’s Guardian Arts Center in Beijing

June 5, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

These new photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li reveal the “pixelated” forms of the Guardian Arts Center by Büro Ole Scheeren as it nears completion in Beijing. Scheeren’s architecture firm unveiled the new headquarters for the country’s oldest art auction house, China Guardian, in mid-2015. Conceived as the world’s first major museum and auction house hybrid, the arts centre provides two large auction halls, as

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27 Photos Inside The New InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun Hotel In China

June 2, 2017 Keely 0

  Joe Cheng of CCD/ Cheng Chung Design, has recently completed the InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun, a luxury hotel in China. The main goal of the project was to create an avant-garde atmosphere that evoked feelings of space, the future, and technology.   The hexagonal diamond effect of the building facade is where Joe Cheng began as a […]

Archi-Union’s Qiandao cable-car station features stacked forms that lean out towards a lake

May 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Chinese studio Archi-Union based the tiered form of this cable-car station on an abstracted geometric model of the mountains surrounding its site on the shores of Qiandao Lake. The Shanghai-based architecture office was invited to develop a proposal for the Qiandao Lake Cable Car Station in 2013, as part of a planning and architecture project

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Vector Architects adds barrel-vaulted roof to refurbished house in Chinese port

May 14, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Vector Architects has renovated a house perched on a rocky peninsula in China’s Fujian Province, adding a vaulted concrete roof that encloses a new living area with views towards the sea from either end. Captain’s House is located in the village of Beijiao at the end of Huangqi Peninsula. The geology of the peninsula’s cliffs means

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