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Major works to visit include the Xi’an International Football Centre, Xi’an, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, and the Wormhole Library, Haikou, Hainan Province, by MAD Architects.
Key major recent structures are Changzhou Culture Center by Germany’s gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners · Architects, and Shanghai Sanctum by Wutopia Lab.
Finally, we feature Fuhuali Jinan, an innovative hub by CLOU architects. Across from Jinan’s famous lake, geometric volumes form a multi-level waterfront village, an animated commercial and social meeting point with a front-row view.
Design: Goettsch Partners. Connected directly to the city’s extensive pedestrian and public transportation system, the COFCO site serves as a neighborhood hub linking the green belt to the east with nearby office towers.
Architects: Yiduan Shanghai Interior Design. In this architectural project the designer looks at how to break through stereotypes of design under a background of “secular fashion deluge”. The design is inspired by the concept of ‘water’.
Architects: CONSTRUCTION UNION. The combination of the two blocks and ceiling, and the interweaving of spaces, together with the decoration of simple but strange monster doll and fashionable doll designs; a space encouraging customers to recall the past is created.
Architect: Aedas. This building reflects the traditional Chinese totem of bamboo, rejuvenating the old town of Shenzhen. This 200-m super high-rise will house the headquarters for Tellus-Gmond, lettable office spaces and a jewellery trading centre.
Architect: X+Living. Walking through the front door of the Zhongshuge bookstore, the concept of arch bridge, the designer extends the visual sign of world of books. Rivers on the floor and in the sky which flow forward lead readers to go deeper into the vast ocean of knowledge.
Design: RTA-Office, architects
Six office towers: two tall buildings of 160 m, two of 100 m and two adjacent buildings of 70 m each. The architecture design was made under rigorous volumetric constraints that included a symmetrical configuration.
Design: C.DD, architects
This is a cubic architectural installation of 3m x 3m x 3m. This is not a large space; however, it carries the designers’ great affection and thinking for their hometown Foshan.
Architects: HENN
The idea with the office areas is to attract tenants from the fields of research and technology. In contrast to the traditional, massive plinth construction, the high-rise buildings stand in a public space where paths and squares interlock with the surrounding green areas in the city.
Architects: West-line studio. The Chetian Village runs parallel to a river and the local traditional architectural style is characterized by stone houses with open air courtyards repeated in a parallel way. Each unit is linked to the others and all these parallel bands form separated groups
Design: AN Interior Design Co. HEIKE concept fashion store is a project by AN Studio and a poetic conceptual and spatial experiment to create an innovative example of interior design for an independent fashion brand.
Architects: Aedas
Located in front of the Sanya High-speed Railway Station, Sanya Integrated Commercial and Transportation Hub is a mixed-use tourist information point and transportation hub.
Design: PONE Architecture. In answering the question on how to integrate architecture to further interact and blend cities, environments, human beings and space, PONE Architecture created the architectural sculpture “Transparent Shell”.
Architects: Chu Chih-Kang Space Design. City Inn is located nearby historical attraction Kuanzhai Alley in Chengdu. The client asked for extensive renovations on a very low budget. To make people see the history of this area, we let them to walk into the history
Design: Martin Duplantier Architectes
The platforms are opportunities, each in their own respect, to create a physical relationship with this rock face. The illusion of a mirror for the one, the fear of the void for the next, and lastly the setting in abyss for the final.
Architects: West-line studio. Danxia landform is a unique red rock landscape located in southern China. Chishui Danxia, in the north of Guizhou province, can be classified as ‘young Danxia’, which is one of the most impressive phases.
Architects: West-line studio. The Red Army Memorial Museum is situated in the rural Bing’an Warf, a shoal in the middle of the Chishui river, on the border between the regions of Guizhou and Sichuan, in South-West China.
Architects: West-line studio
The lead characteristic of this residential project is its complicated circulation system. Splitting routes has created different kind of yards and different level of privacy.