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School with an Open Space / Beijing Institute of Architectural Design 6th Division

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Beijing, China

MVRDV Designs Shopping Center with Pearlescent Façade in Beijing

Exterior construction has almost wrapped up on MVRDV’s Chongwenmen M-Cube shopping center in Beijing, featuring a shimmering façade that changes color from grey to pearlescent. The approximately 40,000 square meter center sits in the central Chongwenmen district, just moments from the Forbidden City, and will serve as a centralized hub for retail, cuisine and leisure. The project is set to be completed in summer of this year.

Tianzhu Marketing Center / Tsushima Design Studio

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People's Daily HQ / Architects and Engineers Associates of Southeast University

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Beijing, China

Tales CBD Kindergarten Renovation / Spacework Architects

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3500
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015

Spring Art Museum / Praxis d’Architecture

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MVRDV Reimagines the Chinese Hutong

MVRDV has taken it upon themselves to reimagine the Chinese Hutong. Focusing in on Beijing's prominent and currently vacant Xianyukou Hutong, the practice has set out to define its future and envision "the next hutong" - one that is "monumental, dense, green, mixed and individual" and can be built in phases.

Anchoret Beijing / SPEYS

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Beijing, China
  • Architects: SPEYS
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  65
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015

Original Life Market / LATITUDE

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Beijing, China
  • Architects: LATITUDE
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2000
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015

WHY Hotel / WEI architects/ELEVATION WORKSHOP

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Beijing, China

Yuanyang Express We+ Co-working Space / MAT Office

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  • Architects: MAT Office
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  800
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015

PIFO New Art Gallery / ARCHSTUDIO

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  • Architects: ARCHSTUDIO
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  864
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015

Video: Garden School / OPEN Architecture

"A counteraction to what is happening today in China," OPEN Architecture's Garden School in Beijing seeks to reconnect its students with nature. Located in a new town that, as founding partner Li Hu says, was built "too fast," the school serves as one of the few spaces students can interact with nature. The school is designed like a garden, from its sloping "floor zero" to rooftop gardens, offering unconventional spaces for teaching and inviting public areas that encourage social interaction.

“What is problematic is that these new towns are designed too fast, without much thinking about how the spaces are going to be used, and what kind of space they are going to create. I think it is a problem for human psychology. Living in a new town with not enough good green space, good social space, we’ll become very problematic urban animals,” Hu told Spirit of Space.

Read on for a conversation with the architects. 

Chinese Artist Makes Bricks from Beijing's Smog

From the Bird’s Nest to the CCTV headquarters, for the past 100 days Chinese performance artist "Nut Brother" has been wandering the streets of Beijing collecting smog with an industrial vacuum so that he can eventually turn it into bricks. He has now began to form his bricks by mixing a combination of the collected "dust and smog" with clay. As he told Quartz, the project is meant to be a symbol. Read the whole story here

Sunken Garden / Plasma Studio

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Beijing, China
  • Architects: Plasma Studio
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1000
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013

KUAN Architects’ Intellectual Property Office Headquarters Design is Inspired by Traditional Chinese Paintings

Addressing the budding concept of intellectual property in China, KUAN Architects has revealed their proposal for the Intellectual Property Office Headquarters at the Beijing TBD. The project sits at the crossing of the North-South axis of the Badaling Expressway and the East-West axis of the TBD, an irregular quadrilateral footprint among several rectangular developments. Both sides of the main axis of the TBD are divided into 5 parcels - simple, concise shapes that balance the irregularity of the site and reconcile its plan with the surroundings. Using these building volumes, a plaza is created in the centre.

Beijing Hutong House Renovation / ARCHSTUDIO

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Beijing, China
  • Architects: ARCHSTUDIO
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  160

Folding Screen, Rongbaozhai Western Art Gallery / ARCHSTUDIO

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  • Architects: ARCHSTUDIO
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  400
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013