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Stefano Boeri’s first ‘Forest City’ is now under construction in Liuzhou, China

The project will take just three years to complete, with an opening scheduled for 2020.

All images courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti. Conceived as a green metropolis, the first Forest City project by Stefano Boeri will eventually accommodate 30,000 people, with offices, houses, hotels, hospitals,…

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The Smog Free project: the world’s largest air-cleaning tower opens in Beijing

A 7 meters-high tower to clean air via patented technology.

The Smog Free Project – Photo by Derrick Wang. Courtesy of Studio Roosegarde. Beijing,China – The Smog Free Project by Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde and a team of…

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Swimming Pool Studio bases Shanghai cafe interior on the Mediterranean Sea

A blue- and white-toned colour palette based on the Mediterranean Sea for the Paras Cafe

Swimming Pool Studio aimed to bring the "relaxing and refreshing" hues of blue sea and white sand to this cafe inside a Shanghai office building. The Paras Cafe is located…

#Interiors

Huge timber steps form bridge built by students across a river in rural China

The new structure takes its cues from the region's traditional wooden buildings and is formed from interlocking beams.

This stepped timber bridge was designed by a team of architecture students from the University of Hong Kong to provide a meeting place for residents of a rural community in southern China. Wind and…

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Kengo Kuma designs Folk Art Museum in Hangzhou as a traditional Chinese village

The project occupies over 11.200 square-metres of a former tea field.

Folk Art Museum, Hangzhou – All photos by Eiichi Kano, courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates. Kengo Kuma completed the Folk Art Museum in the campus of China Academy of Arts in…

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Studio Pei-Zhu converts a Beijing factory into Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum

The concept respects the simplicity and reality of industrial buildings, aiming at the future of contemporary art space.

An angular extension covered in a shiny skin of metal panels marks the entrance to this museum for contemporary art in Beijing, which is housed in a former factory converted…

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Universities from Barcelona and Zurich Selected to Create a New Design School in China

The new centre will be built on HIT's campus and house up to 1,200 post-graduate and doctoral students.

IAAC Fabrication Lab. Image Courtesy of PATI NÚÑEZ AGENCY Through a competition limited to some of the most prestigious universities, The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and the…

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The shouxi building with rhythmic façade

The apartment complex is located at the old city center of Fuzhou, China.

image © designboom Dutch firm NEXT architects has realized the ‘shouxi building’, an apartment complex located at the old city center of fuzhou, china. the site itself presented complications which resulted…

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Students and craftsmen join forces to create contemporary straw wares

The trip that makes you keep an open mind of your surroundings

All images courtesy of Ruixue song Sophomore students of China’s central academy of fine arts were given the opportunity to travel to Shandong Bo Xing, a city rich with the…

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Undulating roof: building China Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015

Waiting for the opening on May 1st

The China Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015, by the New York based Studio Link-Arc and a team from Tsinghua University in Beijing, will feature an undulating roof raising from a landscape of wheat. The project…

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