Daxing: how to design an airport for tens of millions of passengers
Beijing Daxing International Airport is recognised by its starfish plan and a roof that appears to flow across the terminal. The visual identity is…
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Beijing Daxing International Airport is recognised by its starfish plan and a roof that appears to flow across the terminal. The visual identity is…
OMA’s CCTV Headquarters bends two towers into a continuous three-dimensional loop. The form became an instant Beijing landmark, but its importance…
The National Stadium, designed by Herzog & de Meuron with Arup and artist Ai Weiwei as consultant, became the defining image of the 2008 Beijing…
The National Centre for the Performing Arts sits immediately west of Tian’anmen Square as an elliptical titanium-and-glass dome surrounded by…
The 798 Art District grew inside an electronics factory complex built in the 1950s with East German assistance. Its north-lit sawtooth roofs, large…
Shougang’s steelworks shaped western Beijing through furnaces, railways, jobs and pollution. Heavy production was relocated before the 2008…
Hutong renewal is often framed as a choice between demolition and freezing everything in place. Micro-renewal offers a third approach: targeted…
Zaha Hadid Architects designed Galaxy SOHO as four flowing volumes connected by bridges and courtyards. Its white bands and continuous interiors…
The Forbidden City’s halls are supported by timber frames rather than load-bearing masonry walls. Columns, beams and layered bracket sets carry the…
MAD Architects conceived Chaoyang Park Plaza as a group of dark, rounded towers and lower buildings recalling mountains, valleys and water. Beside…
The CCTV Headquarters in Beijing rejects the conventional idea of a skyscraper as a single tower. Two leaning volumes rise from a shared base and…
Beijing's tallest building is CITIC Tower, also known as China Zun. The skyscraper in the Central Business District reaches 528 metres and rises…
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