China architecture designs

China architecture designs and architects

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.

Beihai Fake Hills: Chinese residential development

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Beihai Fake Hills design by MAD Architects

Throughout China’s ultra-rapid urbanization, attention has been focused on set-piece architecture: opera houses, museums, stadia. However these would-be icons are the exception rather than the rule. The vast majority of development in China’s new cities takes the form of residential schemes, often standardized and cheap to guarantee a quick return for the developer. Is it possible to build high-density, economically viable housing which is also architecturally innovative?

Nanjing Greenland Financial Center Tower

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Nanjing Greenland Financial Center Tower

Designed by architect Marshall Strabala, the Nanjing Greenland Financial Center (above) is a 297,290-square meters (3.2 million-square foot) mixed-use development including office space, hotel, retail and apartments in Nanjing, China.

Yingxiu Memorial Museum Building

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Yingxiu Memorial Museum, Chinese Earthquake Building

During the earthquake as the rock fell from the mountains and the buildings collapsed the atmosphere was engulfed with dust, the light disappeared and it was difficult to breathe.

Art Museum of Yue Minjun, Studio Pei-Zhu building

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Art Museum of Yue Minjun, Studio Pei-Zhu building

On one hand, there are fantastic landscapes for Qingcheng Mountain, with continuous brooks and wreathed mist…On the other hand, there are private art galleries, with extremely personal art attitudes and contemporary features…

Shenyang building, China: Trinity Liaoning

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Shenyang building, China Trinity Liaoning

The riverside (Hun river) location of the site is exploited as a landscape quality for the 3 new residential districts. A variety of different housing structures were developed for the village.

Guangzhou Park Hyatt China hotel building

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Guangzhou Park Hyatt China hotel building

The project totals 1,878,000 square feet and features a 180-key Park Hyatt hotel, 430,000 square feet of offices, 65,000 square feet of retail, 24 condominiums, 174 serviced apartments, and underground parking for 700 cars.

Tianjin building architect, architecture images

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Urban Delta in Tianjin building design by de Architekten Cie.

Tianjin has north China’s leading port. The population of the area surrounding this port complex, the Tianjin Economic Development Area (TEDA), is expected to increase by at least 200,000 people over the coming decade.