George Lucas hires MAD and Studio Gang for Chicago art museum
News: American film director George Lucas has appointed Beijing firm MAD and Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects to design his proposed art museum on Chicago's lakefront. More
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MAD presents Nanjing masterplan at mountain-like Venice installation
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: rows of curving translucent panels evoking mountains in traditional Chinese paintings surround scale models of MAD's Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center at this installation in Venice (+ slideshow). More
MAD's landscape-inspired Chaoyang Park Plaza breaks ground in Beijing
News: Chinese firm MAD has unveiled new images of Chaoyang Park Plaza – a complex of skyscrapers, office blocks and public spaces modelled on the mountains, hills and lakes depicted in Chinese landscape paintings – which is now under construction in Beijing. More
MAD's Nanjing masterplan features buildings designed to look like mountains
Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD presents a masterplan for Nanjing, China, where buildings are designed to look like mountains and public spaces overlap with the natural landscape, as part of the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. More
Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort by MAD - more photos
Beijing studio MAD has revealed new photographs of its hotel shaped like a giant horseshoe at the edge of Taihu Lake in Huzhou, China (+ slideshow). More
Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort by MAD
A hotel shaped like a giant horseshoe by Ma Yansong of Beijing studio MAD is set to open later this year on the edge of a lake in Huzhou, China. More
Harbin Cultural Centre by MAD
Here are some new renders of Beijing studio MAD's Harbin Cultural Centre, which is well under construction (+ slideshow). More
Ma Yansong unveils mountain-inspired skyscrapers for Beijing
News: Chinese architect Ma Yansong has revealed plans for a mixed-use complex in Beijing featuring skyscrapers, office blocks and public spaces modelled on mountains, hills and lakes. More
Pingtan Art Museum by MAD
Beijing architecture studio MAD has designed an artificial island with an art museum set in caves in its three dune-like forms. More
Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong
Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD is exhibiting architectural models and sculptures in a Beijing courtyard to illustrate his vision for a future city influenced by nature and shaped by human emotion (+ slideshow). More
Competition: five Ma Yansong monographs to be won
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book of projects by Ma Yansong, director at Beijing architecture studio MAD, including the recently completed China Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin. More
China Wood Sculpture Museum by MAD
Chinese studio MAD has unveiled the first photographs of its icicle-shaped museum for wooden sculptures in Harbin, northeast China (+ slideshow). More
Absolute Towers by MAD
Chinese firm MAD has completed a pair of curvaceous twisted skyscrapers in the growing city of Mississauga, Canada (+ slideshow). More
Huangshan Mountain Village by MAD
Chinese firm MAD has today unveiled plans for a village of towering apartment blocks beside the Huangshan Mountains in eastern China (+ slideshow). More
Ordos Museum by MAD
Chinese architects MAD have sent us new images of a museum they completed earlier this year in the city of Ordos, in the Gobi desert. More
China Wood Sculpture Museum by MAD
Beijing architects MAD have unveiled their design for a 200m-long, icicle-shaped museum in Harbin, northeast China. More
Monster’s Footprint by MAD
Beijing architects MAD have created an installation of two large monster's footprints as part of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in China. More
Urban Forest by MAD
Beijing architects MAD have designed a skyscraper for Chongqing, China, with gardens at each level. More
Hutong Bubble 32 by MAD
Beijing architects MAD have completed the first of a series of proposed bubble-shaped additions to traditional hutongs in the city. More
Competition: five copies of MAD Dinner to be won
Dezeen have teamed up with publishers Actar to give away five copies of MAD Dinner, the first book by Beijing architects MAD. More