Marc Goodwin photographs 12 architecture studios in Beijing
Photographer Marc Goodwin visited 12 architecture studios in Beijing to create this photoset, which offers a glimpse inside the workplaces of MAD, Zhang Ke and Vector Architects.
The broad variety of offices in the Chinese capital captured by Goodwin, who runs the photography studio Archmospheres, range from a darkly lit former boiler room to apartments once used by diplomats.
Zhang Ke's studio ZAO/standardarchitecture is located in an old warehouse with a faceted roof pierced by a long skylight. Board-marked concrete walls running along one side of the open-planned space outline nooks for meeting spaces and a library.
The 105 employees of MAD – founded by Chinese architect Ma Yansong – reside in a former print works. Existing wooden trusses and brickwork walls remain exposed on the upper floor.
Walls, floors, structural beams and pipework are all painted white in the former university building that Vector Architects' studio has worked in for two years.
The offices of Urbanus, Crossboundaries and Chiasmus Partners are also included in the photoset – the latest in Goodwin's series of architects' studios in different cities. The photographer has previously visited Paris, London, and Nordic studios.
Take a look inside all 12 Beijing architecture studios:
In this space since: 2015
Number of employees: 25 to 30
Building's former use: warehouse
In this space since: 2008
Number of employees: 105
Building's former use: printing works
In this space since: 2015
Number of employees: 20 to 25
Building's former use: auditorium, bar, showroom
In this space since: 2015
Number of employees: 45
Building's former use: offset printing factory
In this space since: 2014
Number of employees: 25
Building's former use: university administrative office
In this space since: 2010
Number of employees: 15
Building's former use: classroom
C+ Architects
In this space since: 2016
Number of employees: 6
Building's former use: architectural firm' s studio
MAT Office
In this space since: 2002
Number of employees: 10
Building's former use: hostel, office building and factory
AnyScale Architecture Design Consultants
In this space since: 2014
Number of employees: 25
Building's former use: apartments for diplomats
LISPACE Design Limited
In this space since: 2013
Number of employees: 10
Building's former use: boiler room in factory
Haskoll Architectural Design Consultancy
In this space since: 2015
Number of employees: 45
Building's former use: restaurant
WAY Studio and PU Architects
In this space since: 2015
Number of employees: 16
Building's former use: arsenal, university student dormitories, and library and reading room