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post updated 25 Feb 2026
Beijing Architecture Designs – chronological list
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Beijing Architecture News in 2026, chronological:
25 February 2026
Well Town and NOUS Land
Design and Project Architect: Aedas
image courtesy of architecture office
13 January 2026
Tiffany Façade Beijing
Architects: MVRDV
photo © Tiffany & Co.
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Beijing Architecture News 2025
Key new Chinese capital property developments images + information.
Beijing Architecture News in 2025, chronological:
3 December 2025
JD Mall Renovation
Design and Project Architect: Aedas
photo : CreatAR Images
17 October 2025
SPARK 761, Beijing Digital Economy AIDC
Architecture: llLab.
photo © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
12 August 2025
The Overlaid Gardens at House J
Design firm: Atelier About Architecture
photo © Zhu Yumeng
24 April 2025
Jing IN International Center, Beijing, China Office Building
Design firm: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects
photo © Marcus Bredt
13 April 2025
Bosideng Flagship Store, Sanlitun
Design firm: 39 THIRTY NINE
photo © SFAP
11 April 2025
Gardenful Courtyard Renovation
Architecture: TAOA
photo © Tao Lei
27 March 2025
Tongzhou MixC One
Architecture: 10 Design
photo : Kris Provoost
21 February 2025
Capital International Exhibition & Convention Centre
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
photo : Virgile Simon Bertrand
A leading centre of commerce, culture and government, Beijing has seen significant growth in the city’s service and digital technology industries. This continued expansion of Beijing’s corporate sectors has increased demand for the city to host conventions, international conferences and industry expos attended by delegates from throughout China and around the world.
27 January 2025
North Yard Collaborative Innovation Park, Haidian District
Design: CAA architects
photo © CAA
CAA’s vertical city garden North Yard, designed with the concept of Oriental Futurism, is nearing completion at the foot of Beijing’s West Mountain.
14 January 2025
Western Academy Elementary School Library
Design: Studio Vapore
photo : Wu JianQuan
Beijing-based design office Studio Vapore has collaborated with the Western Academy of Beijing to renovate its elementary school library. The project reimagines the library as a multifunctional learning space designed to inspire creativity and exploration, while supporting modern educational needs.
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Beijing Architecture News 2024
Beijing Architecture News in 2024, chronological:
31 December 2024
TAOA 798 Studio, 798 Art District
Design: TAOA
photo : TAOA
Beijing’s 798 Art District is a vibrant, influential art hub, as well as an industrial heritage park. It features a mix of industrial plants from various periods alongside art spaces that have been continually repurposed from the old buildings over the time.
15 June 2024
ZGC International Innovation Center Beijing, Zhongguancun area, Haidian District
Design: MAD Architects
photo : Arch Exist
24 May 2024
New Campus of Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing
Design: China IPPR International Engineering Co., Ltd. and von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects (gmp)
photo : gmp Architekten
8 March 2024
Courtyard 35 Beijing
Design: WAY Studio
photo : Yuan Gao
WAY Studio recently designed the renovation of an old and secluded courtyard in the centre of Beijing and transformed it into an urban attraction, incorporating a micro-mixed-use complex. In the design, WAY Studio considers the relationship between old and new, between outside and inside, positive and negative space, to create a cloudscape insertion that mediates the relationship between nature, man, and man-made.
26 Feb 2024
Sub-Centre Library Beijing, China building, Tongzhou District
Design: Snøhetta, Oslo
photo : Yumeng Zhu
Snøhetta unveils the world’s largest climatized reading space with their new Beijing City Library.
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Beijing Architecture News 2023
Beijing Architecture News in 2023, chronological:
7 November 2023
Aumann Japanese cuisine
1 November 2023
Capital Heyuan Pinggu Rental Housing Community Library
Design: y.ad Studio
photo : SCHRAN
This library is in building 12 of the rental housing complex on the west side of the collective land of Baigezhuang Village, Daxingzhuang Town, Pinggu District, Beijing. By defeating five well-known Chinese design firms, y.ad studio won the competition and worked on the project design.
Beijing Railway Station Interior Renovation
The Transition: House of a Filmmaker
The New World Exhibition, Beijing by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zhongmeishan self-service BBQ PLUS
14 June 2023
China Philharmonic Concert Hall
Design: MAD Architects
photo : CreatAR, Zhengdong.Li, Xu Chen
With an overall site of 11,600 sqm and a total building area of 26,000 sqm, the concert hall is one of the most significant cultural projects in the nation’s capital. It will become the first permanent residence for the China Philharmonic Orchestra, which gave rise to a new generation of symphonies in China.
20 Mar 2023
SUSHI ZEN Restaurant, Wusi Street, Dongcheng District
Design: LDH Architectural Design Firm
photo : REALSEE – WANG Ting
Located at No. 33 Wusi Street, Dongcheng District, this new Japanese banquet restaurant was renovated from a 200-year-old building set up in the Republic of China. The property provides Japanese banquets facing the 600-year-old imperial palace building in the Forbidden City.
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Beijing Architecture News in 2022, chronological:
16 Dec 2022
Sleeping Lab Arch, Huangmuchang Village
Design: Atelier d’More
photo : Atelier d’More
The Sleeping Lab – Arch project is located in Huangmuchang Village on the outskirts of Beijing. It is a two-story brick-concrete building, originally used as residence and office.
17 Nov 2022
CapitaMALL Wangjing
Design: CLOU architects
photo : Xia Zhi
CapitaMALL Wangjing, the first large commercial complex developed by CapitaLand in Beijing’s Wangjing area, has brought commercial prosperity to the Wangjing community since its opening in 2006. In 2021, CLOU architects won a design competition and collaborated with CapitaLand to renovate this long-standing community beacon, responsible for the overall space branding upgrades of CapitaMALL Wangjing.
17 Nov 2022
Dongcheng Courtyard House
Architecture: JSPA Design
image : JSPA Design
Located in Dongcheng district in the ancient city of Beijing, the project consisted in the construction of a private courtyard house including the refurbishment of an existing Ming’s dynasty building along the street.
6 Oct 2022
SINOVAC High-Tech Achievements Transformation Project, Changping Life Science Park, Beijing, Northern China
Design and Project Architect: Aedas
image courtesy of architecture practice
24 Aug 2022
Light Echo TW showroom, Qikeshu Creative Park
Design: KiKi ARCHi
photo : Eiichi Kano / Ruijing-PhotoBeijing
In this new architectural project the arrangement of light is crucial to an image, whether it is in the basic lighting, atmosphere, mood rendering, characterization, etc. From pre-shooting to post-production, the video artists control the brightness, angle, and colour of light to form an atmosphere that fits the scene, and participate in narrative and expression.
19 August 2022
Collaborative Learning Center of Peking University Building, Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District
Design: FEI Architects
photo : FEI Architects
The Collaborative Learning Center of Peking University is located in the Second Teaching Building, adjacent to the canteen and the School of Mathematical Sciences. How to transform the original corner space under and around the staircase into a diversified, interactive and borderless space that integrates typical elements of Peking University and gives the students a sense of psychological identity is the focus of this project.
17 July 2022
Anna Garden Residence, Northern China
Architects: KiKi ARCHi
photo : Eiichi Kano
Changping District is 30km to the north of Beijing, the scenery of which is completely different from that of an international city. KiKi ARCHi has completed the renovation of Anna Garden Residence within 15 months there.
4 July 2022
Zhen Fund Office Interior
Design: asap/ adam sokol architecture practice
photo : Jonathan Leijonhufvud
2 July 2022
WILLchá Flagship Store
Design: CUN DESIGN
photos by Jia Bin, Si You
When you wake up every morning, will you choose to brew a cup of pour-over coffee, or go downstairs for a cup of Starbucks at the street corner? Currently, coffee and cola seem to have gradually become the mainstream of people’s consumption.
23 June 2022
Pifo Gallery Beijing Building, 798 Art Zone
Design: ARCHSTUDIO
photograph : Jin Weiqi
Pifo Gallery is one of the earliest major art intuitions in China dedicated to advancing the research and development of abstract art. After more than a decade of operation, the owner of the gallery invited ARCHSTUDIO to renovate the space, to improve its functions and adapt to future development demands.
20 June 2022
Baiziwan Social Housing, near the Central Business District
Design: MAD Architects
photograph : ArchExist
Baiziwan Social Housing is the first affordable housing project by MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong. Situated near the Chinese capital’s CBD (central business district), the project covers the area of 93,900 sqm, with a total construction area of 473,300 sqm.
23 May 2022
Fintech Office Beijing, Ronghui International Building
Interior Design: WIT Design & Research
photo : One Thousand Degree Visual
13 May 2022
Mansion Feast Restaurant Beijing
27 Apr 2022
BBMG Xi San Qi Science & Technology Park Phase I, Xisanqi, Haidian District
Design: Aedas
photo : CreatAR Images
The project is located in the core area of the high-tech corridor in Xisanqi, Haidian District, Beijing. It is surrounded by innovative technology parks and headquarters, with convenient access to the financial street and the Central Business District (CBD). In close proximity to several key urban rail transit lines, the project possesses excellent geographical conditions.
18 Apr 2022
In S&N Resort, Mentougou, Xidamo Village, Qingshui Town, Mentougou District, Beijing
Design: Penda China
photo : Xia Zhi
Located in West Dharma Village, Fangshan District, Beijing, In S&N Resort is favorably sited amidst mountains and trees. Legend has it that the twenty-eighth generation of Bodhidharma disciples of Shaolin Temple in Songshan traveled across the world. When passing through the Baihuashan area, they built temples, spread Buddhism, did good deeds, and cured illness of local people under the protection of Bodhidharma.
12 April 2022
Jetlag Books pop up shop
Design: WIT Design & Research
photo : One Thousand Degree Image
Zhenhua Luo, the director of WIT Design & Research, was invited to design a pop-up shop named “The Cloud” based on the theme that “A bookstore runs away from home” in December 2021. In this case, bookstores no longer bear too much responsibility to be an iconic architectural representation of the city.
18 March 2022
Beijing Olympic Forest Park’s Runner’s Station
Design: TEMP
photo : Weiqi Jin
The Runner’s Station is built inside Beijing’s Olympic Forest Park as a public utility. Like others around China, this sports park that held the 2008 Olympic Games were tasked to install supporting services that better serve the locals.
4 Mar 2022
Zhima Health pop-up shop at Zhengda Center
Design: Wang Yong
photo : Rock
According to the biologists the process of aging results from the gradual accumulation of the genetic errors in cells and genes. The appearance of a new wrinkle is the result of the subtle effect the second law of thermodynamics has on the body.
28 Feb 2022
CLOU Office, Beijing Interior
Design: CLOU architects
photo : Banye Lin
17 Jan 2022
Sub-Centre Library
Design: Snøhetta
image : Plomp
The new Beijing Sub-Centre Library due to complete by the end of 2022, will offer a contemporary yet timeless space for learning, knowledge sharing and open discussions, as well as celebrating the cultural richness of Beijing and China at large. Aiming to set new standards for sustainable library design, the Beijing Sub-Centre Library will become distinctly different to conventional libraries, utilizing technology, smart design and local resources.
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2022 The Winter Olympics Plaza in Beijing, Shougang Garden, Shijingshan Zone
Architects: CCTN Architectural Design Co. Ltd
photograph : Chen He
Home of the Future in the Chinese Capital City
Design: LAVA
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Design: Robert Majkut, architects
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