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Ma Yansong decorates abandoned building with colourful fishing-net installation

March 20, 2023 James Parkes 0

Architect Ma Yansong has created Timeless Beacon, an installation constructed from multicoloured fishing nets and reflective film that covers an abandoned market building in China. The installation envelops an abandoned three-storey waterfront market building in Taiping Xu in the Guangdong province of China, which was once a bustling commercial area for trading. The structure’s lower

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Watch a live talk with Ma Yansong, Peter Cook and Drawing Architecture Studio

March 16, 2023 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen is teaming up with Chinese studio MAD to host a live talk about the future of Beijing with the firm’s founder Ma Yansong, architect Peter Cook and the founders of Drawing Architecture Studio. Watch here at 9:30am London time on Friday 17 March. The talk coincides with the end of Blueprint Beijing, an exhibition

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A Home Design Shaped By Lifestyle And Mindset

March 16, 2023 HD Staff 0

Our homes should be planned and used in a way that reflects us. Rule books can be torn up when there is no one to please but yourself and your family. This 220 sqm home design in Shangrao, China, aims to embrace this freedom of thinking. Visualized by Shexia Design, the interior is shaped by […]

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Ma Yansong picks six highlights from Blueprint Beijing exhibition he curated

March 1, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Architect Ma Yansong, the curator of Blueprint Beijing, a feature exhibition exploring the future of the Chinese capital at the 2022 Beijing Biennial, shares six of his highlight installations from the show. Ma, the founding partner of Chinese architecture studio MAD, invited 20 architects and artists of different generations from around the world to present their

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Neri&Hu adds “glowing lantern” on top of Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi’an

February 28, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has added an extension to the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi’an, China, that was designed to “serve as a source of illumination for the surrounding urban fabric”. Neri&Hu was invited to create a new extension for the east entry of the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts, which is located

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BIG reveals pair of “simple prismatic” skyscrapers in Shenzhen

February 14, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled the Qianhai Prisma Towers in Shenzhen, China,  both comprised of leaning volumes tapering towards the sky. Set to be built on either side of the Shenzhen Hong Kong Plaza, a cultural development designed by Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto known as the “green belt”, the skyscrapers will be 300-metres  and

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Atelier Deshaus completes Buddhist temple alongside Great Wall of China

February 10, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Chinese architecture studio Atelier Deshaus has completed the Upper-Cloister Buddhist temple and meditation complex, in the Jinshan Mountains near Beijing. Situated in a valley next to the ruins of the Great Wall of China, the temple complex consists of series of spaces arranged on stepped platforms against the 1.6-metre drop sloping mountain terrain. Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus aimed to

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Undulating concrete landscape conceals Chinese cultural centre by Change Architects

February 9, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A flowing landscape of grass-topped, terracotta-coloured concrete animates the Chaohu Natural and Cultural Centre designed by Chinese studio Change Architects to reference mountains in Anhui province. Commissioned by OCT Group, the centre provides a community hub and restaurant for the Bantung Hot Spring Town resort, which forms part of a new economic development zone at the

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Studio8 transforms 1930s Hangzhou villa into hotpot restaurant

February 8, 2023 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: Chinese architecture practice Studio8 has renovated the interior of a 1930s villa in Hangzhou, China, transforming it into a hotpot restaurant and cocktail bar that celebrates the building’s history. The Gud restaurant and bar includes a roof terrace, dining space on the upper floors and bar on the ground floor. The 496-square-metre space occupies

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MAD designs feather-like terminal for Changchun airport in China

February 7, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

A floating feather was the visual reference for the airport terminal that Chinese architecture studio MAD is designing in the city of Changchun, Jilin province, China. Terminal 3 at Changchun Longjia International Airport will have a distinctive fan-shaped form, which is intended to resemble “a feather floating in the breeze”. Once complete, the building will

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