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04/06/2025
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We are proud to present a global survey, as exhaustive as possible, of design that represents and expresses the new understanding of humanity – or harmony. Ideas of Community; Energy; Infrastructure; ...
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In an elegant progression of scale, legacy and application to key turning points in people's lives, MAD Associate Partner Fu Changrui explores and explains the now celebrated startling interventions i ...
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The GATE M West Bund Dream Center is an excellent demonstration of how the time between a building’s realisation and its renovation seems to get shorter and shorter. It used to be that we only transfo ...
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The C40 Cities Green and Thriving Neighbourhoods report focuses on the two pillar goals of sustainable development: 'green', ie net-zero carbon emissions, and 'thriving' – people-oriented, resilient, ...
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The Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City complex defines a new type of green architecture, characterised by alternating open balconies and closed loggias accentuated by trees and shrubs that can gr ...
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"This looks like the beginning of the future" said a visitor to The Phoenix, a sustainable neighbourhood development in Sussex, UK. Constructed primarily in sustainable timber, powered by renewable en ...
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The essence of architecture lies in weaving the hidden connection and inner harmony between humans and nature in different dimensions of time and space, say Xian Architects. 'House of cornfield' re-im ...
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The bookshop as a personal space - as a cathedral, as a rural retreat, as a piece of history. TAO's mountaintop bookstore overlooks the Nujiang Grand Canyon, while their Weishan Chongzheng Academy Boo ...
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AIM Architecture' spectacular Spine Resort emerges onto its rural site like a cluster of ecosystems. Grandiose and intimate at the same time, the biophilic design dynamically balances architecture, na ...
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05/06/2025
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1. The 185,000 sq m OPPO HQ in Shenzhen works both for the city and the employees of China's leading smartphone manufacturer. Large atrium spaces, obstruction-free floors, abundant natural light and s ...
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The Shenzhen Wave, the new hq for ZTE: The distinctive design is imagined as a dynamic, living organism that generates innovation, cutting-edge ideas and new ways of working and living together. A sin ...
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Three massive rail station hub projects integrate high-speed and local transport networks with multiple residential, commercial, leisure and hospitality developments. Aedas executive director Leon Liang discusses the nature of transport-based social expansion with renowned railway and transport design expert Paul Priestman of Puli Innovation.
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China's rapid development over the past 30 years has brought about wealth and a huge consumer society, but at the same time, the unique and tasteful handcrafted culture that remained in the countrysid ...
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Inspired by the ceremonial jade bi of Liangzhu culture—a 5,000-year-old symbol of cosmic reverence—Yohoo Museum reinterprets ancient rituals through contemporary architectural language. The dual-ring ...
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The long awaited Beijing City Library is just about as iconic as it gets. The glass-lined building, filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills, is designed to "reinstate the ...
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Our "Design Triple" session places three museums together, each one of which pushes the boundaries of the accepted functions of a cultural institution. Muda Architects' Tianfu Museum of Chinese Medicine is designed as a giant Taiji diagram, or yin-yang symbol, to represent the philosophy of holistic traditional Chinese medicine; Aurora Design's HumShan Ding You Feng photography museum draws from the local landscape, the architecture reflecting harmony between mountains, water, and the built environment; and UN Studio's Chungnam Art Museum turns itself "inside out" to address the community with vibrant interactive spaces.
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06/06/2025
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In contemporary architectural design, materials have transcended their basic functional attributes to become one of the core factors driving creation.Materials are the embodiment of the times; buildin ...
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Antistatics conceived the façade of the Beijing Vicutu store as an array of interwoven interlaced aluminium forms, generated to suggest the structure of cloth fabric. "A respite from the digital realm ...
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Embodying the principles of Thomas Heatherwick's groundbreaking and provocative 'Humanise' philosophy, the massive mixed-use Xi'an CCBD development – a neighbourhood of 155,000 sq m - blends a retail ...
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The biggest question facing creative in all disciplines all over the world. Put simply: will the machines take over and put us out of a job? As the technical development of AI races far ahead of the ethical and human issues it impacts, architects and designers tussle with the key differences between machine and human Intelligence – and "ideation".
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The 3-to-1 Pavilion design is the integration of time, space, and people, with a focus on "in-between" or interstitial spaces, say the designers. It is a serene sanctuary for tea drinking, contemplation, and social gatherings in a Shanghai garden setting.
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Metal-Woven Thin-Shell Pavilion Digital Weaving · Structural Realization · Meditative Space · Zero-Waste Sustainability Concrete Thin-Shell Activity Space Monolithic Structure · Terrain Integration · ...
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The Cloud Retreat Hotel Ganzhou uses contemporary spatial forms and material colours – the red of local Ganzhou pigment - to reconstruct the living memory of Hakka Enclosed houses. "With a geometric processing of the spaces, collaging and overlapping, we create a living experience linking local memory and contemporary quality," say the designers.
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The speech will focus on the importance of sound and acoustics within spatial design. Unknown Works is fascinated by how our perception of sound impacts our experience of the built environment, especi ...
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The four previous speakers discuss the intangible quality of 'uplift' in the creation of architectural and social space, and the different approaches to achieving it.
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07/06/2025
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The Japanese concept of "Junkan" informs the design of the Pavilion. It has a variety of meanings based on the idea of "cycle'" which naturally leads us to circularity and even recycling. What can Junkan teach us about the future of design？
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