A giant spiral staircase guides visitors to the roof of the Shanghai Grand Opera House, which international studio Snøhetta designed to be "as much a civic destination as a performance venue". More about Snøhetta completes landmark opera house in Shanghai
Chinese studios HB Architects and Nature Times Art have completed a hotel in Jiashan, China, which is connected by a 360-metre-long raised walkway. More about Raised walkway ties together 360‑metre-long hotel
Architecture studio BDP has unveiled a pharmaceutical research campus in Shanghai, China, comprised of interconnected buildings that evoke the movement of cell division. More about Splitting cells informs Shanghai research campus' interconnected buildings
A sweeping white roof informed by the pages of a book crowns Chang'an Academy Xi'an Public Library, a cultural centre in Shanxi Province. More about Chinese library complex encourages "connections between people and the city"
Chinese interior designer Bin Wu's book Timeless East explores the idea of a design language rooted in the philosophical context of the East. For this roundup, he picks six of his own favourite projects in China and abroad. More about Six projects from Bin Wu that showcase design "articulated by the East itself"
AIM Architecture has designed Zara Huaihai Road, a flagship store for the Spanish fashion brand in Shanghai, with an amphitheatre-like brick podium that connects the building with the street. More about Zara flagship store in Shanghai reflects "the future of physical retail"
Architecture studio Xiang Architects has unveiled a multi-stair observation tower within the Chenhu Wetland bird sanctuary near Wuhan City, China. More about Xiang Architects creates steel double-helix viewpoint for bird watching in China
International studio Open Architecture drew on Lina Bo Bardi's own designs when creating The Poetics of Survival, the first major exhibition of the architect's work in China. More about SESC Pompéia indoor pond replicated for Lina Bo Bardi exhibition in Shanghai
Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed designs for the Bihailou Art Village, a cultural development in Shenzhen, China, set to comprise a stack of colourful volumes. More about MVRDV designs colourful stacked volumes for Shenzhen cultural complex
Architecture studio MAD has unveiled Shenzhen Bay Culture Square in China, a design museum formed of stone-like volumes perched atop an undulating green roof. More about MAD scatters boulder-like galleries across green-roofed museum in Shenzhen
Local architecture studio DoDesign has completed the Nanhai Buddha Pavilion in Chongqing, China, creating a shelter with gridded metal walls that are filled with thousands of loose cedar logs. More about Rearrangeable cedar logs fill walls of Nanhai Buddha Pavilion in China by DoDesign
Next up in our Future Stadium series, we take a look at Hangzhou Sports Center in China, a flower-like stadium designed by American studio NBBJ to use less steel and complement the surrounding city's growth. More about Desire to "make the stadium lighter" drove design of Hangzhou Sports Center
Granite cloaks the sweeping form of Shenzhen Natural History Museum, completed in China by architecture studios 3XN, B+H Architects and Zhubo Design. More about Sinuous form of Shenzhen Natural History Museum emulates "a piece of landscape"
British architecture studio RSHP has completed One Shanghai, an 186-metre mixed-use skyscraper in central Shanghai, China, informed by the city's historical laneway network. More about RSHP unveils tripartite Shanghai skyscraper informed by historical laneways
Architecture studio MVRDV has designed a flagship store for Chinese fashion brand Urban Revivo in Beijing, China, with a dramatic facade informed by the roof tiles on the city's traditional houses. More about MVRDV wraps Beijing roof tiles around Chinese moon gates for fashion flagship store
Architecture studio Vector Architects has arranged a cluster of art galleries around a preserved Banyan tree canopy near Guangzhou, China. More about Vector Architects rejects "white cube" design for Aranya Art Center Guangzhou
A one-kilometer-long series of terraces and planted staircases wraps around a trio of interconnected buildings in Shenzhen, China, for tech company TP-Link. More about KPF wraps China skyscraper in one-kilometer-long "landscape ribbon"
Three interconnected curved volumes and two office towers comprise the Tengyun Center in Shenzhen, China, which has been completed by architecture studio MAD for technology company Tencent. More about MAD adds trio of "cloud buildings" to Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen
A trio of swooping, interconnected volumes informed by traditional Cantonese opera costumes make up this performing arts centre, which has been completed by UK studio ZHA in Guangdong, China. More about ZHA designs waterfront performance venue in China to "crescendo and flare"
Architecture studio NBBJ has completed the headquarters of Chinese phone company Vivo in Shenzhen, China, which includes a terrace wrapped around the exterior of the skyscraper. More about NBBJ wraps Vivo skyscraper in spiralling terrace