MAD's sinuous Harbin Opera House completes in north-east China
Beijing studio MAD has completed an opera house in the Chinese city of Harbin, featuring an undulating form that wraps two concert halls and a huge public plaza (+ slideshow). More
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China "can't buy culture" with museum boom, say critics
China's rush to build thousands of new museums is leading to cultural buildings "with no vision and mediocre collections", according to architects and curators in the country (+ slideshow). More
Santiago Calatrava unveils three bridge designs for Huashan, China
Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava has unveiled designs for three new multi-modal bridges for the growing Chinese city of Huashan (+ slideshow). More
Terraces of plants in Yanweizhou Park "control floods in an ecological way"
World Architecture Festival 2015: in this exclusive movie, Andrew Buck of Turenscape discusses the flood-resistant topography of the Chinese landscape firm's award-winning wetland park in Jinhua, China. More
Speys pairs raw concrete with wood and brass at Beijing boutique Anchoret
A chunky concrete frame surrounds the glass shopfront of this boutique in Beijing's Chaoyang district, designed by local studio Speys (+ slideshow). More
KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten wins competition to design Shenzhen Art Museum and Library
German studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten's glass-covered design for the Shenzhen Art Museum and Library complex in China beat proposals from a number of star architects. More
Mu Xin Art Museum by OLI Architecture sits over a lake in eastern China
This "floating" art and literary museum by American studio OLI Architecture is housed in a grouping of textured concrete blocks, which are elevated over a lake in China's Zhejiang Province (+ slideshow). More
Four O Nine transforms greenhouse into plant-lined coffee shop
Shanghai office Four O Nine has converted a glass building in Beijing into a cafe, adding walls of plants to purify polluted air. More
Lukstudio repeats gift-box motif throughout Shanghai macaron shop
The decorative gift boxes used to package macarons at this Shanghai patisserie provided the inspiration for the translucent semi-circular details that spread across its walls and ceiling (+ slideshow). More
Open Architecture develops reconfigurable construction system of tessellating hexagons
This showroom for a real estate developer in Guangzhou, China, is a prototype for a modular building system designed by Open Architecture to be easily moved or adapted (+ slideshow). More
Arch Studio adds sculptural white staircase and glass roof extension to Beijing house
Beijing-based Arch Studio has renovated this house in the city's Dongcheng district, adding a perforated-steel staircase designed to make climbing to the top feel like "walking into the sky". More
Arch Studio adds foldaway walls to Beijing art gallery
Walls based on traditional Chinese screens can be moved to create exhibition spaces within this Beijing art gallery by local firm Arch Studio (+ slideshow). More
Neri&Hu installs continuous clothing rail through Comme Moi flagship store
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the interior of fashion brand Comme Moi's first flagship store, installing custom-made metal rails and cage-like cabinets (+ slideshow). More
Penda highlights global water crisis with meadow pathway installation
Architecture studio Penda has designed a meadow containing sunken pathways and concealed meeting places, which opens next month as part of China's International Garden Expo 2015. More
People's Architecture Office uses ventilation pipes to create typographic installation
Chinese studio People's Architecture Office used metal air conditioning pipes to create giant Chinese characters on the facade of the Tubular Baitasi visitor centre during Beijing Design Week 2015. More
Vector Architects disguises mountainside community centre beneath sprawling grass roof
Vector Architects designed a huge grassy roof canopy and plant-covered walls for this community centre in southwest China, helping it to blend in with its mountain landscape (+ slideshow). More
China more open to new architecture than risk-averse UK, says Will Alsop
World Architecture Festival 2015: British architect Will Alsop says there are more opportunities for ideas-driven architecture projects in China – like his Gao Yang development, which features a four-storey hanging restaurant – in this movie filmed in London (+ movie). More
David Chipperfield creates "village" of stone dwellings in Hangzhou marshland
David Chipperfield Architects has completed a series of stone apartments raised on plinths above the surface of a water garden in Hangzhou, eastern China (+ slideshow). More
Lukstudio suspends metal wires to look like drying noodles at Chinese restaurant
Shanghai-based Lukstudio has reinterpreted a traditional Chinese food drying rack with a metal grid structure and hanging wires for a noodle bar in Changsha (+ slideshow). More
Archi-Union Architects completes Shanghai arts space with sweeping concrete walls
Board-formed concrete surfaces curve around the central staircases of this contemporary arts centre completed by Archi-Union Architects in Shanghai's West Bund district (+ slideshow). More