The Steel-Scaled Pavilion Pointing at China’s Future
The first thing you notice is the skin. Tessellated stainless-steel panels wrap the Chengdu Pavilion like the hide of something alive, catching light in fractured…
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A Natural History Museum That Actually Looks Like Nature
Museums have a reputation problem. For decades, they’ve been temples of quiet reverence: boxy, imposing, slightly intimidating buildings that seem to announce, before you’ve even…
A 28m² Bamboo Tower in China Makes You Bow to Get In
Not every piece of architecture asks something of you before you step inside. Most buildings are passive that way. You walk through a door, and…
The Hangzhou Prism by OMA Is the Mixed-Use Landmark China’s Tech Capital Deserves
There’s a centuries-old Chinese proverb that goes: ‘above, there is heaven; below, there is Suzhou and Hangzhou.’ OMA’s newly completed Hangzhou Prism doesn’t just reference…
SoBA Stacks Color-Coded Blocks Into a Castle-Like Kindergarten That Defies Its Urban Surroundings
SoBA — the architecture and landscape practice led by Wang Ruo and Tang Haiyin — has completed Block Kindergarten in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, a 21-class…
MAD Just Opened a 46,000 sqm Silver Cloud Museum in China
When we covered the Hainan Science Museum back in 2024, it was still a promise on renderings. The images showed a billowing silver form rising…
Beijing Just Built a Library That Opens and Closes Like a Shell
Most public spaces do one thing: they sit there. They look the same in the morning as they do at noon, and they expect you…
Foshan’s Forgotten Warehouses Got a Rooftop Park Under Floating Domes
Somewhere along the Huadi River in Foshan, China, a cluster of old grain storage warehouses has been turned into one of the most quietly poetic…
The Red Cabin Sitting Alone on a 1,000-Year-Old Island in China
The first time I saw images of the Red Bridge Cabin, I spent a good five minutes just staring at them. Not scrolling. Not clicking…
A Restaurant in China Where Wood Behaves Like a Forest
The first thing you notice about the Lakeside Restaurant at Silk Road Friendship Park in Dingzhou, China, is that the building doesn’t announce itself. It…
This Museum Was Designed for 25,000 Birds, Not Humans
Nestled within the lush landscape of Yunlu Wetland Park in China’s Pearl River Delta, Studio Link-Arc’s latest project redefines what it means to design for…
This Glowing Dome Just Turned Shanghai’s Park Into a Moon
There’s something magical about stumbling upon an unexpected glow in a city park. Shanghai’s Century Park recently hosted one of those rare moments where art,…