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10-07-2020

Previews of the future: MAD unveils its plans for Shenzhen Bay Culture Park

MAD Architects, under architect Ma Yansong, has revealed the masterplan for Shenzhen Bay Culture Park, which will also include the Creative Design Hall and Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum. The architect models the green area to create a work of land art in a park that serves the design of the buildings while offering the public a visionary concept of the city in which to establish a new way of perceiving space and time.

05-05-2020

MAD Architects: Architecture and landscape at the Quzhou Sports Park

In Quzhou, in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, MAD Architects - headed up by architect Ma Yansong - has designed a stadium and other sports facilities that dissolve into the landscape. This is the vast Quzhou Sports Park, a park spread across an overall surface area of 570,000 square metres comprising both sports facilities - including a 30,000-seat stadium, a gymnasium for an audience of 10,000, a swimming pool, outdoor training grounds, and a service centre for athletes - and a science and technology museum, as well as other areas for children.

03-04-2020

MAD’s Wood Sculpture Museum is made of glossy steel

The Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin, China is a building clad in glossy steel

02-01-2019

MAD Architects’ Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Centre nears completion

The final phase in construction of the Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Centre designed by MAD Architects, the studio of architect Ma Yansong, is now underway: a project on an urban scale that puts the architect’s concepts of the "Shanshui City" into practice.

23-11-2018

MAD builds a kindergarten in Okazaki out of timber and asphalt shingles

MAD’s first building in Japan is a kindergarten which begins with reinterpretation of the existing building in a new volumetric style using innovative materials

08-10-2018

Living Garden: the house of the future, by Ma Yansong and MAD Architects

Eliminating the boundaries between indoors and outdoors to enjoy the sensation of living entirely surrounded by nature, without giving up the comfort and security of a home. Living Garden is a project by architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects designed to give form to his concept of the house of the future for the 2018 China House Vision Exhibition.

03-10-2018

MAD Architects: Clover House, kindergarten in Okazaki, Japan

In their first project in Japan, MAD Architects combine the memory of the site, an old house converted into a kindergarten, with contemporary architecture: Clover House stands out from its surroundings in Okazaki with its coat of white asphalt.

20-08-2018

Dominique Perrault Architecture and MAD at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale

On the occasion of the 2018 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, which will end on 17 September, MAD architectural studio restored with artistic spaces the Kiyotsu Gorge tunnel of Tokamachi, an area of outstanding natural beauty, while the Dominique Perrault Architecture studio designed the Drape House pavilion.

07-05-2018

MAD Architects - Chaoyang Park Plaza, Beijing

Photos by Iwan Baan and Hufton+Crow capture the relationship between the city of Beijing and the Chaoyang Park Plaza skyscraper, designed by MAD Architects, the studio headed by architect Ma Yansong. They offer an image of architecture in its urban setting.