Christina Yao

Linehouse creates greenhouse-informed food market in Shanghai

March 28, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio Linehouse has wrapped a food market in a Shanghai laneway neighbourhood around a central atrium informed by Victorian greenhouses. Named Foodie Social, the 2,000-square-metre food market is located within the Hong Shou Fang community – a residential area in Shanghai’s Putuo district known for its classic “longtang” laneway architecture. The entrance to the two-storey

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Longnan Garden estate in Shanghai wanted to escape the “virus” of boring Chinese housing

March 22, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Our next Social Housing Revival case study is Atelier GOM’s Shanghai Longnan Garden estate, the first social-housing project in China to abandon high-rise towers. Located in Shanghai’s central Xuhui district, the 100,000-square-metre Longnan Garden estate was completed in 2017. Commissioned by the district’s state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission as low-rent housing, it comprises one commercial

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Five architecture and design events from China in March

March 19, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Fashion brand Loewe’s exhibition Crafted World and the second edition of Design Shenzhen are among the Chinese architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Also featured in the guide are Michael Borremans: The Promise presented by Italian brand Prada and the 53rd edition of CIFF Guangzhou. Additionally, Chinese architecture studio Condition_Lab

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Twelve Chinese architecture projects completing in the Year of the Dragon

February 9, 2024 Christina Yao 0

As China prepares to celebrate Chinese New Year tomorrow, Dezeen rounds up the 12 most anticipated architecture projects set to complete in the country this year. China’s architecture industry has been hit hard by the commercial property crisis in the past year – and that is reflected in the projects selected below. With no sign

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MAD unveils sunken Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing

February 7, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Chinese architecture studio MAD has rebuilt a historic train station in central Jiaxing, China, and expanded it with an underground terminal and public park. Named Train Station in the Forest, the revamp of the 354,000-square-metre building is MAD’s first station and the studio hopes it will “redefine transportation infrastructure buildings in China”. MAD created an

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Junya Ishigami designs one-kilometre-long museum emerging from Chinese lake

February 1, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has created the one-kilometre-long Zaishui Art Museum on a lake in China, which features openings that let water flow over the museum floor. Located on an artificial lake at the entrance of a new development zone in Rizhao in China’s Shandong Province, the 20,000-square-metre linear museum extends from one side of

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Five architecture and design events from China in January

January 18, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Heatherwick Studio’s Building Soulfulness exhibition and the inaugural edition of the Guangzhou Design Triennial are among the Chinese architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Also in the guide are the Seventy Years Leading Italian Design Trends exhibition by Compasso d’Oro, Pradasphere II and Beauty Changes: 100 Years of Italian Fashion

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Neri&Hu highlights simplicity and functionality at Shanghai art gallery

December 6, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed a contemporary art gallery for Ota Fine Arts in Shanghai with a focus on the “sublime beauty of the banal”. The gallery sits on the ground floor of a mixed-use tower at Rockbund, a development amidst the historical Bund in Shanghai along the Huangpu River, where a series of restored

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Neri&Hu highlights simplicity and functionality at Shanghai art gallery

December 6, 2023 Christina Yao 0

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Nic Brunsdon creates inflatable sphere for National Gallery of Victoria

November 22, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Australian architect Nic Brunsdon has created a giant sphere that inflates and deflates throughout the day for this year’s National Gallery of Victoria Architecture Commission in Melbourne. Called (This is) Air, the project is designed by Perth-based Brunsdon in collaboration with technology company Eness to mimic the natural rhythm of breathing. The spherical structure stands

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