Tag Xia Zhi

27-03-2020

Floating melodies: the CROX’s Liyang Museum

In the city of Liyang, in eastern China, architecture and landscape design studio CROX has completed an impressive public building: Liyang Museum, the city’s new key landmark, not so much for its 12,000 metres of floor space as for its unique futuristic shape, designed specifically for the volume containing the museum. The plans were on display in the “Time Space Existence” exhibition at the 2018 Biennale in Venice.

11-10-2017

Vector Architects: renovation of the Captain’s House

Vector Architects renovated the Captain’s House, a home like many others on Huanggi Peninsula in China’s Fujian province. In Vector Architects’ project, the Captain’s House becomes a ring joining the two walls over the sea.

17-04-2017

Poly WeDo: music and education according to Archstudio

Poly WeDo is a school of music and the performing arts for children in Beijing’s Yongli shopping centre. Archstudio, the Chinese architects who designed the school, took great care with every detail, from acoustics to the natural environment.

21-09-2016

Vector Architects and the Seashore Library on the beach in China

The Seashore Library, winner of the Archmarathon prize, is one of Vector Architects’s most surprising projects. A concrete block on the beach in Beidaihe New District, China, represents Vector Architects’ reflection on the relationship between landscape and architecture.

26-05-2016

Vector Architects Seashore Library

Architect Dong Gong of Vector Architects in Beijing has been named Overall Winner of the ArchMarathon Award 2016 for his poetic plan for the Seashore Library, a refuge for the body and mind built on a human scale, overlooking the ocean.

19-12-2014

Open Architecture: Geuha Youth and Cultural Center

Open Architecture’s new Geuha Youth and Cultural Center in Qinhuangdao (China) contemplates the relationship between architecture and education. The circular floor plan creates a series of open, flexible spaces facing onto a big inner garden. Passive energy-saving technologies guarantee the project’s sustainability.

26-04-2013

Open Architecture GEHUA YOUTH AND CULTURAL CENTER

The centre designed by Open Architecture and opened at the end of July 2012 has won two prestigious prizes in China.