Tag Zhejiang, China

05-01-2022

DnA Design and Architecture: Museum of Poetry, Songyang

In Songyang, China, Beijing-based firm DnA_Design and Architecture has restored the tombstone of poet Zhang Yuniang, once immersed in the forest and now absorbed into the urban system. This has also presented the opportunity to design a new poetry museum, thus breathing new life into a neglected corner of town.

24-02-2021

UAD presents the international campus of Zhejiang University in China

UAD is an architecture firm founded within Zhejiang University itself in 1953. It has over 1400 employees, some of whom have recently designed and built the university’s new international campus. The campus - situated between Lake Juanhu and a lagoon park - is designed in a neoclassical style which tends to vary from one block of buildings to the next, with the dark red brick as the common characteristic element connecting them all. A multifunctional space of excellence where students and professors alike can live and pursue their studies and research.

06-07-2018

Three hotels in China: unique experiences reclaiming the past

There is a trend in China toward reclaiming traditional forms of urban and rural architecture for conversion into hospitality facilities such as hotels, resorts and temporary residences. Thus local architectural history becomes the focus of attention for tourists.

28-11-2017

Lukstudio’s "Culinary Village": a showroom for Arda

Imagine a village made up of little houses without bedrooms, bathrooms or living rooms, only kitchens. This is the concept behind Lukstudio’s project for Arda: a different kind of showroom, where every single kitchen is set in a custom-designed space of its own.