All Blog Posts Tagged 'China' (31)

This is the new headquarters of Qihoo 360 Technology, the leader in cloud computing in China.  Sustainability meets playfulness in this office space.  Designer David Ho of edge…

Asian Cairns is a proposal for Shenzhen, China by architect Vincent Callebaut.  With Shenzhen and Hong Kong growing together to total approximately 20 million…

The Golden Moon is a temporary architectural structure built for the 2012 Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Wonderland.  The pavilion by local firm LEAD explores the…

The new Nanjing Sifang Art Museum sits at the gateway to the Contemporary International Practical Exhibition of Architecture.  Rising from the landscape of the Pearl Spring, the museum by…

Cube Tube consists of an office building and a restaurant in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China.  With the requirement to design a distinctive landmark with good natural lighting and an open, airy feeling,…

Sity is the dramatic proposal for a mixed-use structure that coils through Shangai’s city center, over a river and across a park.  Designed by the elusive land surveying company Sonik Module, Sity draws its form from the classic Chinese dragon.  The…

The Zoomlion Exhibition Center is a shape-shifting building designed by California firm amphibianArc.  The exhibition center has a unique double-skin system:  an inner skin…

21 Cake is a popular gourmet cake shop in Bejing.  The colorful design for their 450-square-meter office by People’s Architecture Office plays with layering (like a cake!) the primary colors of red, yellow,…

The new Shell Museum in Dalian, China draws from its interior collections to inspire its outside form.  The architecture was conceived by the Design Institute of Civil Engineering & Architecture of…

The Phoenix International Media Center is a striking piece of architecture designed around the concept of the Mobius strip.  Set for completion this year, the center merges the media building’s…

The stunning Infinity Loop Bridge is the winning design proposal by 10 Design and Buro Happold to connect…

Built on an extremely constricted site with a mature tree, and constructed from the salvaged parts of the original warehouse’s collapsed roof, the Tea House sits in the backyard of…

This soaring design for a night club and hotel by eastern European firm Urbanplunger was awarded 3^rd prize in the international competition for a site in Hong Kong, China.  Given the extremely compact urban panning that…

Currently under construction, the 632 meter high Shanghai Tower is located in the center of the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, and is adjacent to the Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai…

This elegant proposal was submitted by Alsop Design for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.  The city invited firms to design an iconic visitor attraction on the bank of the Huangpu…

The Garden of 10,000 Bridges was designed by Netherlands-based West 8…

MVRDV is the winner of the international design competition for the…

This beautiful, rainbow-ribboned interior design is Kid’s Republic, the picture book store of the Beijing POPLAR Culture Project (BPCPC).  It was designed by…

The architecture of the beautiful Halleluja…

While it resembles a beautiful giant flower in Shanghai, the Oriental Art Center holds three auditoriums: the 330 seat chamber music hall, the 1054 seat lyric…