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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.
Architects: West-line studio. The cultural center is located in Chetian Village, in the Guizhou province, in South-West China. The village has more than 400 years of history and is famous for its ‘stone houses’ built with local materials.
Architects: West-line studio
The Zhuhai National Park is located in the region of Chishui, in Guizhou province, in South-West China. The 10,000 hectares park is characterized by the unique presence of the so-called Bamboo Sea.
Architect: Andrew Bromberg at Aedas. The building design balances cultural components within a dense urban environment disconnected from its traditional connection to nature.
Architects: Bloom Design. Hiding in the trade area in the central part of Tianhe District of Guangzhou, Blue Space is a leading fashion brand planning agency. Freedom, openness and returning to simplicity are the spirits that Blue Space advocates.
Design: AMArchitects. With a total construction area of 26-30 million m², Qianhai is expected to create 650,000 jobs and house 150,000 residents by 2020. The six lots forming part of the project area are part of a dense urban mesh.
Design: URBANLOGIC. With rising production costs China is slowly losing its workbench of the world status. Companies upgrade businesses from mass production to design, marketing and cultural services.
Design: QIN Yue-Ming. The Silkgarden Resort and Spa, is located at this pastoral scene, poetically described as “Fairy water falls on earth, and beautiful scenery is looming in the mist.”
Design: NEXT Architects. The new pedestrian bridge in the Chinese mega city Changsha is 185 metres long and 24 metres high: the extraordinary steel bridge explicitly engages and offers new perspectives
Architects: FM.X Interior Design
Living in the busy city, working hard day and night, stop and look back, the blue sky, green grass, beautiful mountains and open fields of childhood might still linger in your mind.
Design: INUCE Architecture Design Urbanism
Luoyuan is a rapidly growing city by the coast of Fujian, a Chinese province famous for its tea production, its Hakka ethnic minority and their distinct ring-shaped residential architecture, the so called Fujian-Tulou.
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.