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12-01-2021

MAD Architects Yabuli Entrepreneurs’ Congress Centre

The congress centre designed by MAD Architects for the Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum is now complete. On November 18 through 20, 2020, the new facility housed its inaugural event, the annual Yabuli CEF, one of China’s most influential business organizations. More than 600 entrepreneurs attended the event in the futuristic new congress centre surrounded by the snow-capped mountains of northeast China.

17-11-2020

Work starts on MAD Architects’ FENIX Museum of Migration in Rotterdam

Work has begun on the FENIX Museum of Migration in Rotterdam, the first cultural project in Europe by Ma Yansong’s studio MAD Architects. The museum will be constructed in a location with a particular significance for the history of migration in Europe and beyond: Fenix warehouse, on Katendrecht peninsula, one of Europe’s oldest Chinatowns, a place thousands of people passed through on their way to a new life in the new world.

24-08-2020

MAD Architects Wormhole Library, a dreamscape in Haikou

A new library, designed by MAD architectural practice led by Chinese architect Ma Yansong, is due to be built in 2021 overlooking the South China Sea, on the coastline at Haikou in Hainan province, China. The recently released design features a pavilion with smooth curves reminiscent of a "wormhole", a tunnel that transcends time and space.

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.