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World’s Largest Terminal is Open at Zaha Hadid Architects’ Daxing Airport

Featuring the architecture firm’s signature undulations and parametric curves, the new Daxing Airport in Beijing by Zaha Hadid Architects will accommodate 72 million travelers per year by 2025. ...

Ship-Like Theater with Glass Sails Planned for China’s Dongyang River

MAD Architects will ensure that the experience of visiting the new Yiwu Grand Theater in China's Zhejiang province is unlike anything else in the world, with a highly unusual boat-inspired ...

Underwater Hotel in a Formerly Abandoned Quarry Now Open to Guests

The concept renderings for this wildly unusual hotel design in an abandoned Chinese quarry debuted on the internet over a decade ago, and now the finished complex is welcoming guests. The ...

Art of the Chinese Courtyard: Respectful Renovations Keep Hutongs Alive

Building booms around the world can render entire neighborhoods unrecognizable in a matter of days, demolishing historic structures to make way for new developments. In cities like Beijing, where ...

What Can You Find in This 24.9-Billion-Pixel Panoramic Photo of Shanghai?

Commissioned by the Shanghai government, this 24.9-billion-pixel panoramic photograph captures an incredible amount of detail, and it's easy to lose hours zooming in on every individual scene. ...

The Other Place: Surreal MC Escher-Inspired Hotel Interior in China

A maze of staircases leads absolutely nowhere within a series of new hotel rooms at 'The Other Place' in China, nodding to artist MC Escher’s famous lithograph print entitled 'Relativity.' ...

Cloud-like Circular Staircase Stands at the Center of This Chinese Villa

Floating staircases always make a big impact, but rarely do they actually look like they’re just wisps of clouds spiraling through a living space. Prior to renovation, the three floors of this ...

Chinese City to Replace Street Lights with Orbiting Artificial Moon by 2020

Within two years, the city of Chengdu aims to swap out its ground-based street lighting with the soft glow of an artificial moon, casting light across 50 square miles of the urban ...

10 Architects, 10 Homes of the Future: The 2018 China House Vision Exhibition

Visions for the homes of China’s future actively transform, adapt, provide greater comfort when sharing small spaces, grow food and even prepare for extraterrestrial lifestyles. The theme of ...

Lost Architecture is Remembered with Sculptures of the Ivy That Once Covered It

What if, after the demolition of a neglected building, all that was left behind was the leafy exoskeleton of ivy that once grew up its outer walls? As shanty towns all along the Yuan River in the ...

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