PAO transforms Chinese porcelain factory using "plug-in architecture"
Chinese studio People's Architecture Office has converted an old porcelain factory in Jingdezhen into workshops and a gallery using colourful steel and glass extensions. More
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The top 10 Chinese architecture projects of 2024
Continuing our review of 2024, Dezeen's China editor Christina Yao rounds up this year's most impressive Chinese architecture, including a one-kilometre-long museum and a conical viewing tower. More
Delugan Meissl transforms disused steelworks in China with "organic curved pavilions"
Austrian studio Delugan Meissl Associated Architects has completed the Expo Cultural Park Greenhouse in China, engulfing a disused steelworks with a mass of curved glass pavilions. More
Kengo Kuma and Associates cloaks Chinese clay museum in handmade tiles
Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed UCCA Clay Museum in China, creating a peaked form clad in handmade ceramic tiles to celebrate the "warmth of craftsmanship". More
Urbanus adds colourful rooftop additions to Shenzhen block
Architecture studio Urbanus renovated and combined five buildings in Shenzhen, China, adding colourful additions and circulation. More
Open Architecture designs conical Sun Tower as "giant sundial"
Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed the 50-metre-tall Sun Tower, which has a conical concrete form designed to follow the path of the sun, in Yantai, northeast China. More
Wutopia Lab wraps Chinese arts centre in translucent mesh
Translucent mesh informed by mosquito nets wraps the forms of Flickering Peak, an arts centre in Hainan, China, by architecture studio Wutopia Lab. More
Dezeen's Global China exhibition spotlights cultural collaboration
Models, sketches and photos of works by architects and designers including Neri&Hu, Büro Ole Scheeren, Paul Priestman and FOG Architecture feature in Dezeen's Global China: Connecting The World Through Design exhibition in Shanghai. More
Neri&Hu captures "spirit of traditional alleyways" at Shanghai arts centre
Rows of arches and barrel vaults reference Shanghai's historic alleyways at New Bund Performing Arts Centre, completed by local architecture studio Neri&Hu. More
CPlus Architects uses pale bricks for "rustic" home in rural China
Pale brick, stone and timber were used to create a "rustic and warm feeling" at this home in rural China, designed by local studio CPlus Architects. More
Offhand Practice creates glass-walled cafe in Shanghai park
Chinese studio Offhand Practice has completed the Mei Yuan Cafe, a glass-walled pavilion in Shanghai that allows visitors to "immerse themselves" in the surrounding park. More
Swooping roofs of Beijing Art Centre evoke the site's granary history
Architecture studios Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Perkins&Will have completed a multi-functional art centre in Beijing, referencing the shape of a granary that once occupied the site. More
Temp nestles charred-wood pavilion in rocky Shanghai garden
Chinese studio Temp has used charred wood to create 3-to-1 Pavilion, a triangular shelter nestled in a rocky garden in Shanghai. More
Tianjin 4A Sports Park is a multipurpose play area in China by BAM
A range of colours, patterns and forms animate this sports and play area in Tianjin, China, designed by international studio Ballistic Architecture Machine to "rethink the role of parks in dense cities". More
ZZHK Architects completes bridge in China with spiralling viewpoint
Chinese Studio ZZHK has completed G Clef Bridge, a pedestrian walkway across the Bailu River in Chengdu, which culminates in a spiralling ramp and viewpoint informed by musical notation. More
Neri&Hu animates gridded Taipei apartment block with arched screens
Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has completed a residential building in Taiwan that features a gridded facade filled with inverted-arch screens. More
MORE Architecture creates Ginkgo Gallery as "antidote to the museum boom" in China
Dutch studio MORE Architecture has completed a concrete museum on an island in a manmade lake in Jiaxing, China. More
Schmidt Hammer Lassen transforms cement factory into West Bund Dome Art Center
Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has adaptively reused a domed cement factory in Shanghai, China, to create a performing arts and sports venue. More
Ole Scheeren reveals plans for Shenzhen skyscrapers with "waterfall" facades
Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed Scenic City, its design for the headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com, which will feature facades designed to resemble waterfalls. More
CLOU Architects stacks blocks to form kindergarten in China
Playful openings and colourful windows brighten the pixelated exterior of West Coast Kindergarten, completed by Chinese studio CLOU Architects near Hangzhou. More