The yin and yang symbol looms large in the imaginations of many architects. It has provided inspiration for everything from a house to a panda enclosure, and now influences the overall form of an ...

Liu Jiakun. Image © Tom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation:The Pritzker Architecture Prize I first went to China in 2002, a year after the International Olympic ...

Between September 28 th and November 29th, OCAT Shanghai is presenting “Space Discipline: some buildings (after reform and opening up) and some architecture (after the Expo in Shanghai)”, a group ...

Neither fully Chinese nor American, traditional nor modern, the latest Alhambra, California, outpost for Chinese restaurant Sichuan Impression is a mediation in duality. Los Angeles–based interior ...

Introduction: Beyond the forbidden city; Genesis of Chinese buildings and cities; Architecture of the First Emperor and his predecessors; Han architecture; And age of turmoil: three kingdoms, two jins ...

Four years into the construction of Beijing’s tallest skyscraper, its architects received an unexpected request from the city’s authorities. Despite already being more than half built – and despite ...