MAD Architects has installed a number of organically-shaped bubbles into the urban landscape of Beijing’s Qianmen district to provide new space, new functions and incentives for young people s to return to the area.…
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OMA unveils masterplan for new major development in Dubai Academic City
OMA and its Dubai partner Iyad Alsaka have been commissioned to work on a major educational masterplan in Dubai. The project is being undertaken for the Government of Dubai Knowledge Fund, on a site…
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Thai firm Onion designs Bangkok community reading space with different configurations
Thai architecture firm Onion, led by Arisara Chaktranon and Siriyot Chaiamnuay, has created a community reading space in Bangkok called Samyan Co-op that offers different types of seating arrangements and environment to suit different types of users. The…
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3andwich Design and He Wei Studio convert abandoned stone quarry into open-air amphitheatre in Chinese village
A disused stone quarry in Wujiatuan Village at Songshan Residential District in the city of Weihai, Shandong Province, China, has been converted into an open-air amphitheatre. It has been named by the local residents…
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Taiwanese architecture firm Crox designs a floating museum atop undulating mountains in China
Taiwanese firm Crox, led by architect C.R. Lin has designed the Liyang Museum in Changzhou in the Jiangsu province in China. Located in the southeast corner of Yan Lake Park in the new urban…
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David Chipperfield Architects-designed West Bund Museum clad in translucent glass opens along Huangpu River in Shanghai
Shanghai has a new museum. The West Bund Museum designed by British architecture practice David Chipperfield, is a new art gallery located on the Shanghai Corniche, an 8.5-kilometre frontage on the northern bank of…
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Foster + Partners’ Amravati masterplan project in Southern India scrapped
Five years in the making, the Amravati Project in the Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has been terminated by the local government due to lack of funds. The 217-square-kilometre city masterplanned by Foster…