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Büro Ole Scheeren unveils twisting Tencent Helix complex for Shenzhen
A quartet of twisting office towers that are joined at the base will form the global headquarters of tech company Tencent, which architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren is creating in Shenzhen. Named...
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Zaha Hadid Architects references migratory birds for Zhuhai art centre
Four angular wings with steel canopies form Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre, which British studio Zaha Hadid Architects has completed on an artificial lake in China. Located within the ZhongXin Lake in...
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ToSummer Beijing Flagship Store named best interior at Dezeen Awards China 2023
ToSummer Beijing Flagship Store has been named Dezeen Awards China 2023's interiors project of the year following the announcement of all six interiors winners at this evening's ceremony. The six...
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Combo Bench and Obsidian Chair named design project of the year at Dezeen...
Combo Bench and Obsidian Chair has been named Dezeen Awards China 2023 design project of the year following the announcement of all four design winners at this evening's ceremony. The four design...
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"A metastasized Sydney Opera House" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Zaha Hadid Architects' Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre on an artificial lake in China. The centre is characterised by its four angular wings with...
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Dezeen Awards China Interiors project of the year "preserves built history"
A courtyard house converted into a fragrance store by FOG Architecture has won Dezeen Awards China 2023 Interiors project of the year, as seen in this movie produced by Dezeen. The studio picked up the...
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Dezeen Awards China architecture project of the year "opens up new...
A school with colourful volumes and sinuous curves by Trace Architecture Office won Dezeen Awards China 2023 Architecture project of the year, as seen in this movie produced by Dezeen. The studio...
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Plat Asia explores "boundarylessness" with Cloud Tea Room in China
Beijing studio Plat Asia has created a contemporary teahouse for a resort in Huzhou, China, which draws on the transience of clouds and is surrounded by an undulating steel-pole installation. Located...
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MAD designs Nanhai Art Center to emulate "continuous wave of water"
Architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for an arts centre on a waterfront site in Guangdong, China, which will have an undulating form modelled on moving water. Encompassing 121,275 square...
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Kooo Architects designs rural hotel to blend with village in China
Japanese studio Kooo Architects has completed a collection of hotel cottages in China that draw on the local vernacular to integrate into the surrounding village. Named Ningshan LuZhai Cottages, the...
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Red Box exhibition centre appears as if "carved from a complete stone"
Angular cut-outs and courtyards break up the red-concrete structure of this monolithic exhibition centre in Nanjing, designed by Chinese studio Mix Architecture. Named Red Box, the building is located...
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Wutopia Lab wraps Shanghai Book City in perforated aluminium
Perforated metal sheets form the facade of this renovated bookshop in Shanghai, China, which local studio Wutopia Lab has filled with 10,000 metres of shelving. Named Shanghai Book City, the...
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10 Design set to top Shenzhen mall with indoor ski slope
Architecture studio 10 Design has unveiled its design for Huafa Snow World in Shenzhen, which will include an indoor ski resort that the studio claims will be "the largest of its kind in the world"....
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Five architecture and design events from China in January
Heatherwick Studio's Building Soulfulness exhibition and the inaugural edition of the Guangzhou Design Triennial are among the Chinese architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide...
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Aedas lines twin skyscrapers with bronze fins in Hangzhou
Architecture studio Aedas has designed a pair of round-edged, 150-metres-high skyscrapers, named One Future, in Hangzhou, China. Informed by lotus plants in the nearby West Lake, One Future features...
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Junya Ishigami reveals one-kilometre-long museum emerging from Chinese lake
Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has unveiled the one-kilometre-long Zaishui Art Museum on a lake in China, which features openings that let water flow over the museum floor. Located on an artificial...
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Yatofu fosters "relaxed holiday atmosphere" in Jianze showroom
Design studio Yatofu has completed a furniture showroom in Hangzhou, China, featuring a playful pastel colour palette and a display area housed on a steel-mesh platform. The 80-square-metre retail...
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Ten buildings in China that interact with dramatic landscapes
After Junya Ishigami unveiled a kilometre-long art museum that emerges from an artificial lake, Dezeen rounds up 10 recent Chinese architecture projects that play with arresting landscapes. Japanese...
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Dezeen Agenda features Junya Ishigami's one-kilometre-long museum
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a one-kilometre-long museum in China. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. This week, Japanese architect Junya Ishigami revealed the...
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Hill-like concrete forms shape arts centre in China by DUO
Chinese studio DUO has completed Nanchang OCT Contemporary Arts Centre, a series of exhibition spaces housed in stepped concrete forms with accessible green roofs. Overlooking a wetland park and the...
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MAD unveils sunken Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing
Chinese architecture studio MAD has rebuilt a historic train station in central Jiaxing, China, and expanded it with an underground terminal and public park. Named Train Station in the Forest, the...
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Vector Architects designs concave Chapel of Music for Chinese seaside resort
Chinese studio Vector Architects has completed a monolithic, concrete concert hall in the coastal resort of Aranya in Qinhuangdao. Located centrally within the town's public square, the three-pronged...
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Twelve Chinese architecture projects completing in the Year of the Dragon
As China prepares to celebrate Chinese New Year tomorrow, Dezeen rounds up the 12 most anticipated architecture projects set to complete in the country this year. China's architecture industry has been...
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Lin Architecture designs Concrete Pavilion in China as "lighthouse" for farmers
Chinese studio Lin Architecture abstracted and merged local architectural forms for the design of this angular pavilion in rural Yunnan, which is made from white-painted concrete. Simply named Concrete...
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Line+ Studio sits curvaceous viewpoint overlooking Shenzhen
Large steps and open-air terraces wind around the curvaceous Yunhai Forest Service Station in Shenzhen, which was designed by Chinese architecture firm Line+ Studio. Situated on Maluan Mountain, the...
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Five China-based roles on Dezeen Jobs
We've listed five roles on Dezeen Jobs this week based in China, including positions at Dezeen, MAD Architects and Snøhetta. China business development and events manager at Dezeen Dezeen is looking...
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"Some of the most interesting work published these days" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a monolithic concrete concert hall in the coastal resort of Aranya in Qinhuangdao, completed by Chinese studio Vector Architects. Called the...
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Atelier Xi creates angular library within Chinese tea plantation
Five interconnected, angular volumes form this library and tea-tasting room designed by Chinese architecture studio Atelier Xi on an ice-chrysanthemum plantation in Xiuwu, China. Designed to resemble a...
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Concrete vaults support rooftop football pitch in China by UAD
A vaulted concrete base supports an elevated football pitch and running track at the Hexi Sports Field, which The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University has completed in...
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Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of "sitting under a tree"
International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China, a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Located in Beijing's Tongzhou...
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Dezeen Debate features Snøhetta library with a "feeling of extravagance"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Beijing City Library in China by Snøhetta. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. The Beijing City Library in China, designed by Norwegian studio...
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Mesh veil wraps exhibition space in China by Trace Architecture Office
A veil of metal mesh wraps the steel structure of In-Between Pavilion, an exhibition space in Shenzhen, China, designed by Beijing studio Trace Architecture Office. In-Between Pavilion provides a home...
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Wave-shaped roofs top cultural space in Shanghai by Wutopia Lab
Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has used wave-shaped roofs of blue aluminium and translucent fabric to transform an industrial yard in Shanghai into a mixed-use cultural space. Named Klein Blue Hills and...
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Foster + Partners draws on "historic water towns" for Shanghai neighbourhood
British architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled plans for the Xicen Science and Technology Centre, a mixed-use development located within the Yangtze River Delta region in Shanghai, China....
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BDP wraps waterside stadium in double-helix walking route
UK architecture studio BDP has unveiled the Suoyuwan Barracuda Bay Stadium in Dalian Bay, China, which is wrapped with a spiral footpath that overlooks the waterside. The 63,000-capacity football...
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MAD reveals design for Lishui Airport with swooping "bird-like" roof
Chinese architecture studio MAD has unveiled its design for the Lishui Airport in China, which will feature a swooping white roof informed by soaring birds. Perched on a hilly terrain 15 kilometres...
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Longnan Garden estate in Shanghai wanted to escape the "virus" of boring...
Our next Social Housing Revival case study is Atelier GOM's Shanghai Longnan Garden estate, the first social-housing project in China to abandon high-rise towers. Located in Shanghai's central Xuhui...
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Buzz creates subterranean Hermit Space galleries in Beijing park
Architecture studio Buzz has transformed three sunken courtyards created for an underground car park into gallery, event and activity spaces for Beijing MAHA Arts Centre in China. Collectively named...
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MVRDV unveils residential high-rises for Tencent smart city in Shenzhen
Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed a series of residential high-rises arranged around courtyards in Shenzhen's Qianhai bay, which will form part of a smart city development by technology company Tencent....
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Dezeen Agenda features MVRDV's plans for stepped high-rises in Shenzhen
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features MVRDV's designs for a series of bayside residential towers in China. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled a...
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Linehouse creates greenhouse-informed food market in Shanghai
Architecture studio Linehouse has wrapped a food market in a Shanghai laneway neighbourhood around a central atrium informed by Victorian greenhouses. Named Foodie Social, the 2,000-square-metre food...
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Foster + Partners frames underground Apple Store in Shanghai with "active...
A multi-level plaza and elevated viewpoint flank this Apple Store, which British architecture studio Foster + Partners has buried below ground in Shanghai's Jing'an district. Named Apple Jing'an, the...
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Stefano Boeri Architetti unveils design for Museum of Technology in Xi'an
An undulating form topped with terraces will distinguish this technology museum, which the Shanghai office of architecture studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has designed for Xi'an, China. Stefano Boeri...
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Muda Architects completes circular museum dedicated to traditional Chinese...
Chengdu studio Muda Architects has completed Tianfu Museum of Chinese Medicine in Pengzhou, China, which is based on the shape of the yin-yang symbol. Situated beside the Huitong Lake, the museum aims...
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Foster + Partners tops out China Merchants Bank skyscraper in Shenzhen
The China Merchants Bank Headquarters by British architecture studio Foster + Partners has topped out in Shenzhen, with progress on a decorative ribbed steel and glass facade. Images of the...
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"Research became the exhibition" at OMA-designed Crafted World for Loewe
Dutch studio OMA has designed Loewe's Crafted World exhibition, currently on show in Shanghai, which aims to celebrate the brand's craftsmanship. Crafted World, the Spanish fashion brand's first public...
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More Architecture perches Floating Hotel among Chinese mountains
Amsterdam studio More Architecture used a large zigzagging roof to shelter Floating Hotel, which is dramatically positioned among the bamboo forests and mountains of Dachangping, China. Located in the...
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Neri&Hu creates "wooden hut" and "cave-dwelling" interiors for Shanghai stores
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has completed two retail spaces for Shanghai fashion company Jisifang, using wood and concrete to evoke "a more primitive state of being". The two adjacent stores are located...
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MAD designs undulating Cloud 9 Sports Center for Shijiazhuang
Global architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for Cloud 9 Sports Center, a mirrored athletic complex designed as "a luminous cloud" with a wavy shape. Created for the city of Shijiazhuang in...
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Ateno lines subway station in "continuous waves" of red concrete panels in China
Chinese architecture studio Ateneo has used 3D technology to form the undulating, sculptural walls of Wuyuanwan subway station in Xiamen, China. Ateno drew on the red brick used for traditional village...
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