Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Leeza SOHO is now open. Located on Lize Road in southwest Beijing, the 45-storey 172,800m² tower anchors the new Fengtai business district – a growing financial and transport hub between the…
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Hong Kong-Shenzhen bi-city architecture and urbanism biennale to use facial recognition and AI
Carlo Ratti wants people to shun their neutral stance when it comes to technology. This is the underscoring message of arguably the world’s most attended architecture exhibition, Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture of Hong Kong and…
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C+ Architects designs ring-like museum surrounded by clouds in China
C+ Architects has designed an art gallery in Wulong, China, that resembles a glowing ring in the mountains. The 3,000m² LAB Art Museum sits atop a hill that is often surrounded by clouds. Its…
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Architecture Culture Public Institution
Foster + Partners-designed Abu Dhabi Zayed National Museum to open in 2021
Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism has announced that the Foster + Partners-designed Zayed National Museum will open in 2021, nine years after its initial planned opening date. The news comes hot on…
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Architecture Lifestyle Residential design
Butterfly House on stilts in Bali by Alexis Dornier creates a loop with its helix frame
Bali-based architect Alexis Dornier has designed a four-bedroom house on stilts in the shape of a cross surrounded by a circle, located in the artsy Ubud area. The cross is the primary building component…
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JSPA Design creates a boutique hotel in China on the site of former traditional farmhouse
Located in Daixi, a small town between Huzhou and Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, the site of the 700m2 hotel was formed by a gentle slope at the bottom side of a hill covered with…
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MAD Architects completes installation of Hutong Bubble 218 project in Beijing
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.…