Beijing-based MDDM Studio has extended a house near the Great Wall of China by transforming a nearby storage unit into minimalist living quarters. The extension – which is aptly titled House on the Great Wall – has contemporary living spaces set amongst aged stone walls. It was previously an unassuming building that has been used
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Hutong Filter is a studio added to a house in one of Beijing’s traditional hutongs by architecture office Zai with pixel-style shingles and timber frames connecting to a communal courtyard. Beijing studio Zai, founded in 2018 by Yihang Zhang, introduced additional functional spaces to a house found within a courtyard typical of the city’s hutong neighbourhoods. It
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Five aviation fuel containers on the former Longhua airport in Shanghai have been transformed into art and culture park Tank Shanghai, by local studio Open Architecture. Open Architecture has created 60,000 square metres of gallery space on the former industrial site, for Chinese collector Qiao Zhibing. Tank Shanghai sits atop a landscaped “super-surface” – a newly constructed ground
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The Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology has completed a youth development facility, by renovating a former primary school and adding a series of covered bamboo campsite spaces. Located in the mountain village of Pingqiao, in southwest Guizhou province, Raleigh Campsite was set up to provide for the local village and employ local craftspeople, but also
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Snøhetta has revealed visuals for a major new opera house in China, featuring a spiralling stepped roof that will connect the upper levels of the building with a riverside plaza. The architecture and design firm, which was founded in Norway, teamed up with Chinese studio ECADI on its competition-winning design for the Shanghai Grand Opera House. Set to be
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A plywood volume that contains sleep, study and bathing spaces adds structure to this unusually-shaped Shanghai apartment, which architecture studio Atelier Tao+C has recently overhauled. Fronted by a huge bay window that curve out from its front facade, the aptly named U-shape Room apartment has been overhauled to feature a multifunctional wooden volume that Atelier
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Fritz Hansen has opened a showroom designed by Jaime Hayon in Xi’an as part of its ambition to become “the biggest Danish brand in China”. The 1,000-square-metre store is the Danish furniture brand’s biggest ever and its first in China. Dario Reicherl, the brand’s Asia CEO, said the store was a statement of its ambitions
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The Woodhouse Hotel, located in the remote village of Tuanjie in China’s Guizhou Provence, is formed of 10 wooden cabins dotted amongst a forest on a mountain. ZJJZ Atelier designed three simple forms for the cabins, one with a steep pitched roof, one with a shallow mono-pitch, and the other with a flat roof. A mixture of these different forms
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Mica-Bar by 3andwich Design occupies a concrete volume poking out over a river running through the village of Wangjiatuan in China. Chinese studio 3andwich Design extended a former house in the village to create the bar, which lights up at night to create a glowing pattern through the windows and behind the tile screens. This extension cantilevers slightly
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Skate ramp-style fitting rooms and church-like archways feature inside this menswear store in Shanghai, which Kokaistudios has designed to reflect the “eclecticism” of city life. Assemble by Réel, which sells high-end menswear, has been designed to take customers on “a journey through an eclectic, curated assortment of styles and lifestyles”. The 1,037-square-metre store occupies the third
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