Interview with DeStefano and Partners on Yinzhou Fantasy Island Master Plan,Ningbo

Prominent Architecture firm DeStefano and Partners has recently create a new retail hub in the heart of Ningbo, China. The proposal introduces a dynamic shopping concept of Eight International Shopping Streets with a 200 meter tall landmark tower, giving rise to a new image of Yinzhou marked with a hybridization of cultural and ecogical friendly spaces. We [...]

ZS Hope Primary School at Leiyang Maoping Village

Leiyang, located in the south part of Hunan province, is the home place of Cai Lun, the inventor of paper-making in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE). Maoping, which is 30 kilometers to the south of Leiyang, is a small mountain village with its simple folkways. Surrounded by hills on all sides, the village and [...]

MoCAPE by Coop Himmelb(l)au

Austrian architecture practise Coop Himmelb(l)au embarks upon 2 separate projects which both replicate the monolithic scale of China.
The first project is the Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MoCAPE)  which merges two museums into one complex touted as an ‘Urban Monolith’.

Chinese Courtyards

Courtyard spaces have always played a significant role in Chinese architecture as it serves the multiple functions of providing privacy, ventilation and light. The number of courtyards within a building and the created sense of privacy and space reflect the importance of the house owner in his society. It is also in the courtyards that [...]

Chong qing-China’s ‘Chicago’?

China is building megacities like this at a pace and scale the world has never seen before. Chongqing has a current population of 12 million people and counting. It’s part of the central government’s plan to bring some of China’s economic boom to its impoverished interior province whereby the majority of Chinese live.
As Chong qing, [...]

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