Tag Beijing, China

25-08-2022

Design China Beijing: an international summit on sustainability and design.

Design China Beijing is a major international exhibition that has been held annually for the past five years. For the 2022 edition, director Tan Zhuo has introduced a radical change in the way the event is organised, describing the event as international “summit” on sustainability and design which will bring together at least a thousand professionals in the field at the end of September.

13-07-2022

Shiyuan, a Hutong in Beijing built sustainably

Chinese architect Haipeng Ren from the Days in YARD studio, has designed the recovery of a Hutong, a traditional courtyard house in Beijing. The intervention starts from attention to the urban context and strives for coexistence between traditional Chinese construction and contemporary life and technology. The result won the Active Excellent Award, an important recognition of the effective sustainability of architecture.

28-06-2022

MAD Architects Baiziwan Social Housing Beijing

Baiziwan Social Housing is the first social housing project by architect Ma Yansong and his firm MAD Architects. The project represents the culmination of research conducted by the architect since 2014, in the course of lectures held at Tsinghua University and Beijing Architecture University, and addressing the topic of social housing.

21-06-2022

PIFO GALLERY by ARCHSTUDIO, renovating with natural light

Designers from ARCHSTUDIO renovated the renowned PIFO GALLERY art gallery in Beijing. The space, which integrates the functions of art exhibition, reception and office, has been revisited from what was originally a "closed box". By choosing the theme of light for the design, the architects in fact opened up the space to the urban context.

21-06-2022

Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing by gmp

The architectural firm von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) has delivered a major new cultural project for the city of Beijing. The new national museum was built at the northern end of Beijing's central axis and, for the first time, will display important art and craft collections that are part of the country's great cultural heritage.

25-02-2022

TEMP designs Runner’s Station in Beijing Olympic Park

The Chinese architecture firm TEMP has created a small infrastructure in the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing. The project aims to improve the usability of the park originally created for the 2008 Olympic Games, providing a service area for runners to meet, store their things, buy drinks and shower.

11-01-2022

Zhang Li, TeamMinus at Tsinghua University Beijing: Urban Ergonomics exhibition - Aedes Architecture Forum

Big Air Shougang ski slope designed by architect and professor Li Brian Zhang with his studio TeamMinus in Beijing is the only new sporting facility to be built in the Chinese capital for the 14th Winter Olympic Games, due to begin 4 February 2022. Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum presents an exhibition opening January 22 about Big Air Shougang slope and other projects by the studio in which "movement" plays an important role.

07-10-2021

llLab. studio renovates Brickyard Retreat

Using local history to revitalise the region, not once, but twice. LLLab.'s project concerns a former tile factory near Beijing. The industrial building that had already been restored in 2010 as a hotel has now undergone a new makeover, boosting job opportunities and social development in the area.

18-08-2021

3andwich Design: Viti Books bookshop in Beijing

Viti Books, in the Daxing district, southern Beijing, aims to become a starting point for the rebirth of a new sort of social interaction. 3andwich Design is behind the interior design of the bookshop, having designated specific areas for adults and children, for leisure and concentration, where everyone can feel at home.