New Chinese architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. China building news from across this major Asian country.
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.
Architects: Lin Kaixin Design
In order to create a clean, concise space with affinity, the designer applies traditional white wall and grey tile tone into the space, and matches with the warm wood colour.
Architects: Lin Kaixin Design
In the riverside teahouse, the “teahouse is whispering, smart and contemporary, whereas the river is running, thick and ancient. When the two are in organic combination, they are no longer independent individuals, but one in whole”.
Architects: RTA-Office. The complex of buildings is placed in Wuhan, a financial, commercial, logistic, and cultural center in Central China. In 2015, China’s highest-level garden event, the 10th China International Garden Expo, was held in the city.
Design: David Chipperfield Architects. The ten-storey office building is located in a diversely built area on Moganshan Road near Hangzhou’s tranquil Shuyhan Park.
Design: Goettsch Partners, architects. A new 1,075,300-sqft tower featuring a 377-key Grand Hyatt hotel, 84 serviced apartments, three restaurants including a destination rooftop venue, multiple ballrooms and meeting facilities, a spa and fitness center, and parking for 225 cars.
Design: SPARK, architects
A 127,000 sqm mixed-use development. The building design represents a dedicated effort to provide an open realm for community interaction and enjoyment in Daxing.
Design: GRAFT! Changbaishan Ski Resort facilities with integrated Hotel and panorama restaurants, as part of a large scale tourism development project. After two decades of infrastructural and urban development, China is now experiencing a fast build-up of tourism activities.
Design: HENN, architects. Construction has started on Haikou Tower South, which lies in the new business quarter of the South China city of Haikou and is due to be completed by 2020.
Design: KAMJZ, architects
In order to stimulate the currently based on export and industry Chinese economy the new national plan for the years 2014-2020 proposes increasing the factor of urbanisation from the current 54 to 60 percent in the coming years.
Design: studio505, architects
Exuberant and colourful landmark in the heart of Wujin: the Lotus Building and People’s Park is designed to act as a cultural anchor and civic landmark.
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
This 350-m long megastructure completes the He Ping Lu pedestrian boulevard. The building is the focus of the emerging commercial district, “a modern version of a traditional bustling merchant setting”.
Design: C.DD
The Hemingzhou Hotspring Resort & Spa is located away from the hustle and bustle in cities. The developer’s aim is to build a resort for ecological recuperating and resting the visitor’s mind and body.
Fully automated high-bay storage building for 7 million books, unique in China. Design competition win by German architecture studio for a new building Xiangcheng Town, north of the historic Suzhou city center.
Design: Rongor Design & Consultant Co. This resort is designed to let the guests have a comfortable and relaxed experience throughout their stay. The designers have emphasized the transition between spaces and scales to create a positive rhythm of a holistic space.
Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners · Architects. New images of this prize-winning competition entry for Guangzhou City Museum. With the adjacent Science Museum and Art Museum it will form the central cultural precinct of this third-largest Chinese city.
Design: Goettsch Partners, Architects. Chicago-based architecture firm and Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary architecture and design studio design a five-building, 320,000-sqm mixed-use complex in the Qianhai district of Shenzhen, China
Architect: Aedas. Shenzhen Luohu Friendship Trading Centre is a redevelopment of a current department store to be renewed into a new skyscraper with a 7-storey retail podium at the heart of Luohu in China.