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: HENN
The new district, situated in the south of the city between the green belt and the university, is intended to promote structural change and boost the service sector by attracting advanced-technology firms.
Architects: BIAD Office 3A7. The program for Hangzhou International Expo Center include a conference centre, exhibition spaces, restaurants, travel, hotel, commercial, and office spaces, which makes it a truly diverse urban complex.
Design: BloomDesign
Marier in Japanese transelates to intimacy or an intimate connection between people. MarierWagashi locates its first heritage shop in Shangmeilin, Shenzhen, more precisely.
Architects: X+Living
Zhongshuge, labeled as valuing culture, comes to Chengdu -a city full of cultural charm. The project is located in Yintai Center in Chengdu Tianfu Avenue. Taking the mall escalator to the 4F, we can see the familiar Zhongshuge label – text curtain wall at first glance.
Design: The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology. Zhengzhou Grand Theater, being the east part of city axis, is located in Zhengzhou Culture District as the best palace of performing arts in the Central Plains, will highlight the art of movement, and manifest the axis status of Zhengzhou.
Architects: West-line studio. The fire station is located at the very center of Guizhou Province, near its main city, Guiyang. The building grows in between two steep trapezoid-shaped picks, 30m high, facing Huayan Road, an important road artery.
Design: Qing-X Architectural Studio
Beijing Subway Fang Shan Line, connecting with Line 9 at Guo Gong Zhuang station, in Feng Tai district, to Liang Xiang Su Zhuang, in Fang Shan district, Beijing, has 11 stations in total with 9 above-grounds and 2 undergrounds.
Design: TengYuan Design Institute Co. In this project, we hope to establish a linkage between architecture and nature as well as architecture and culture in a simple and plain way. Just as art and literature both have sketches, this project is a construction sketch to some extent.
Design: The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology. The new park is a historical and cultural park with integrating office, supporting and sports facilities to accommodate the software developers with a comfortable environment.
Design: Architectural and Urban Planning Design and Research Institute of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
The architects drew nutrients from the Tujia traditional dwellings, which included the planning pattern of the settlement and the grounding of the house.
Design: Architectural design and Research Institute of SCUT. Winning the bid for Asia Game 2010 offered Guangzhou an opportunity to “upgrade the landmark”. What we decided to do was to optimize the environment with elements of artificial landscape, in order to gradually repair the public spaces.
Design: Architectural Design and Research Institute of South China University of Technology. Northeast Asian Culture and Art Museum Complex, with the land used for its construction in Changchun Airport Economic Development Zone.
Design: Architectural Design & Research Institute of South China University of Technology. The Black Box is conceived by the architect specifically for the building. It represents a truth-recording container, which will disclose all the truth once being opened.
Winners of The MAD Travel Fellowship selected from over 500 global applicants – was open to architecture students globally: five Mainland China students travel abroad, whilst five international students visit China.