Tag Beijing, China

14-08-2020

Foster + Partners designs the new Apple Sanlitun store in Beijing

July 17, 2020 saw the official opening of the new Apple Sanlitun store designed by Foster + Partners studio in collaboration with the Cupertino company’s technical team. The store takes its name from the vibrant Sanlitun quarter in Beijing where it is located. The area chosen is once again in Taikoo square adjacent to the site of the previous showroom which was Apple’s first store in China, built in 2008.

03-07-2020

TAO’s Forest Building of glulam, rammed earth and concrete

TAO’s Forest Building in Grand Canal Forest Park, near Beijing, China, is inspired by the trees of the forest and made of glulam, rammed earth and concrete.

01-04-2020

Italian design takes centre stage in New York and China with Vudafieri-Saverino Partners

Italian firm Vudafieri-Saverino Partners recently completed two important projects. In China, the Italian firm designed a new concept for Glory Casa’s showrooms, a brand of made in Italy furnishing accessories. In New York, on the other hand, Vudafieri-Saverino Partners designed the first American flagship for Delvaux, a Belgian luxury leather goods brand.

20-06-2019

Layering Courtyard in Beijing by ARCHSTUDIO

With its project called “Layering Yard”, ARCHSTUDIO has reinvented a traditional industrial building and quadrangle near Beijing’s historic Qianmen gate.

09-01-2019

United Units Architects (UUA) designs a photography studio in Beijing

The designers from Chinese firm United Units Architects (UUA) have completed the architectural project of ASTUDIO, the photography studio founded in Beijing by renowned photographer Li Xiaoliang and his team.

04-01-2019

A year of skyscrapers: the CTBUH annual report

China and Shenzhen in particular are the country and the city with the largest number of supertall buildings, defined as taller than 300 m. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates’ 528 m tall CITIC Tower in Beijing is the tallest building of 2018 and the sixth tallest skyscraper in the world.

12-12-2018

CTBUH’s list of outstanding skyscrapers

The list of skyscrapers presented with an Award of Excellence, the first step in the CTBUH 2019 Awards presented to the world’s best tall buildings by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, have been announced.

30-11-2018

Air China Tower with aluminium cladding by AREP and IPPR

The Air China Tower is a simple building with a double skin of glass and micro-perforated aluminium, with a wing shape like the fuselage of a plane

02-11-2018

Hologram H10 by Pierre Le Riche at the Minsheng Museum, Beijing

South African artist Pierre Le Riche developed the installation for Cartier's Coloratura High-Jewelry in the largest public space for contemporary art in China, the Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum in Beijing, housed in a former factory converted by architecture firm Pei-Zhu.