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Kazunari Sakamoto creates art library in Shanghai museum for Chanel

December 20, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto has renovated the third floor of Shanghai’s Power Station of Art museum, transforming it into an art library named Espace Gabrielle Chanel. Espace Gabrielle Chanel is the first public library in China dedicated to contemporary art and design. It was designed by Sakamoto for a collaboration between fashion house Chanel and the

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SOM uses AI to design diamond-like West Bund Convention Centre in Shanghai

December 19, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Global architecture studio SOM has used AI tools to inform its geometric design for the West Bund Convention Centre, which has risen beside the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. The recently completed convention centre sits within Shanghai’s West Bund AI Valley – an emerging district for China’s artificial intelligence sector – and is a neighbour to

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Exposed ducts and server rooms reveal the “heartbeat” of AI data centre in Beijing

December 10, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A steel grid wrapped in LED netting cloaks the metal ductwork of Spark 716, an AI data centre and “computing power park” in the centre of Beijing, completed by local architecture practice LLLAB. Located within Beijing’s 798 Art District, the building was designed as an alternative to the traditionally closed-off typology of the data centre,

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SoBA designs cafe in China as “a living container” with dynamic facades

December 4, 2025 Christina Yao 0

Chinese architecture studio SoBA Architects has completed a cafe and florist shop in Kunshan, China, within a foldable box. Named The Bloom Box, the 40-square-metre building sits on a lakeside platform, previously used as a sunshade pavilion in an urban park in Kunshan. The studio designed a bright yellow, box-like structure that can easily open

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Observation tower in China topped with moon-shaped viewing platform

December 3, 2025 Christina Yao 0

Architectural Design & Research Institute of South China University of Technology has designed the Lunar Tower, an observation tower that sits within a mangrove reserve on Hainan Island. Lunar Tower is located in the Dongzhai Harbor Mangrove Natural Reserve Area in east Haikou, China’s first wetland-type nature reserve focusing on protecting mangrove forests. The 33.5-meter-tall

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Dezeen Agenda features waterfront stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects

November 27, 2025 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the curved Greater Bay Area Sports Centre in China. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Zaha Hadid Architects designed the stadium and sports centre in Guangzhou, China, situated in a waterfront park in the city’s Nansha district. This week’s newsletter also included the winners of this year’s

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Zaha Hadid Architects completes waterfront stadium and sports centre in Guangzhou

November 26, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Greater Bay Area Sports Centre in Guangzhou, China, which includes curved stadiums for sporting and cultural events. Located in a 70-hectare waterfront park in Guangzhou’s Nansha district, the centre includes a 60,000-seat stadium, a 20,000-seat arena for basketball and indoor events, and a 4,000-seat aquatic centre with a

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Linehouse adds translucent sloping facade to Shanghai food market

November 25, 2025 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio Linehouse has transformed an old railway station in Shanghai, China, into a food market by adding a series of translucent sloping screens to create a new facade. The three-storey market, named Ink Ink Market, is located within a residential neighbourhood that was formerly occupied by the Tiantong’an Railway Station. To update the building,

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BLUE Architecture Studio converts historic Yangzhou district into sprawling hotel

November 19, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A cluster of new and old buildings in the ancient centre of Yangzhou, China, has been stitched together into a hotel complex by local firms BLUE Architecture Studio and the Urban Architecture Lab at Southeast University. Named Jiangnan House Yangzhou Guangling, the project is one of several undertaken as part of an urban renewal program

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