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Chinese Architecture News 2026

post updated 4 May 2026

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4 May 2026
Meitu Cube Visual Arts Center, Xiamen
Design: OPEN Architecture

images © OPEN Architecture
Set along the coastline of Xiamen in southern China, the Cube of Change looks out over the East Rim shore. Designed as an art center for Meitu Inc., this modern Chinese building adopts a form that seems simple at first glance—a cube. Yet within this clarity lies a structure defined by constant transformation.

3 May 2026
Songtsm Travel Hotel Jiuzhai, Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan Province, Southwestern China
Architect: Thinking Design

photo : You Pu
Perched on a 3,000-meter ridge in Jiuzhaigou is a tiny village of just eight wooden cabins—recognized as China’s smallest administrative settlement. Suspended between sky and earth, it endures strong winds while sharing its landscape with drifting clouds, fir forests, and rugged rock. Our task is to reimagine this remarkable place as a resort.

30 April 2026
CRB Tech-Innovative City, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province
Architecture: Aedas

photos by Seilao Jiong, Kris Provoostg
The transformation of the former factory reimagines the site as a lively, mixed-use community—where beer-themed retail, innovative production spaces, and animated streetscapes come together. Landmark headquarters and craft breweries are woven into the plan, shaping a dynamic urban setting that honors industrial heritage while embracing contemporary design within the Greater Bay Area.

30 April 2026
Pujiang Platform, eastern Chengdu, Sichuan
Architecture: Beijing DJX Design

photo : threeimagest
The new hotel positions itself at the forefront of high-end hospitality, prioritising narrative depth and emotional resonance. Conceived as a micro-destination embedded within the city, it forges a strong connection to its context while cultivating a distinct and enduring identity. From the outset, the project integrates long-term brand value with asset performance, marking a shift from adhering to established standards to actively redefining them.

9 April 2026
Arc'teryx Alpine Touring Experience Space, Songhua Lake Ski Resort, Jilin city, Jilin Province
Architecture: STILL YOUNG

photo © Yuuuun Studio
Through a restrained design language, natural textures, and sustainable practices, the design team shaped a multifunctional hub that brings together alpine training, gear services, and a café. Within this environment, a vivid interplay of coolness and warmth creates an immersive narrative that captures the essence of alpine touring.

5 April 2026
Northwest University Swimming Pool Renovation, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province
Design: Yuanbo Jia

photo : Yuanbo Jia architects practice
This architectural design is grounded in the retention and reinterpretation of the existing structure. Rather than selectively preserving or restoring individual elements, the project treats the building’s residual traces as a generative framework, using them to reorganise space through new sequences and carefully calibrated architectural insertions.

24 March 2026
Gu Su Qiao Suzhou Shishan Cultural Plaza, Jiangsu Province
Architecture: Not A Studio
Looking toward Tiger Hill, visitors arriving at the Gusu Bridge Shishan Branch are first welcomed by a Ming Dynasty–style mountain gate, crowned with the inscribed plaque “Gusu Bridge.” Along both sides, railed benches—known as “beauty seats”—offer places to pause, evoking the traditional symbolism of a courier station that receives travelers from all directions and invites them to rest.

23 March 2026
Music Classrooms at The Western Academy of Beijing
Architect: studio vapore
Beijing-based design office Studio Vapore has completed the renovation of the music classrooms at the Western Academy of Beijing. Part of a broader campus upgrade, the project reconfigures existing spaces to support a range of musical activities, from individual practice to group rehearsal.

18 March 2026
Expo Place Shanghai Development, former 2010 World Expo site, Pu Dong, southern China
Design: Goettsch Partners (GP), in collaboration with retail architect Link Design Group

photo © CreatAR
Global architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) announces the completion of Expo Place, marking a significant milestone in the ongoing transformation of the former 2010 Shanghai World Expo site. The project reimagines a once fragmented landscape as a cohesive, human-scaled mixed-use district, thoughtfully designed to support the rhythms of everyday urban life.

18 March 2026
The Realm of Cognac Hennessy Store, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province
Design: MO Studio

photo : Munan
Invited by Ningbo Mingxuan Liquor Co., Ltd., MO Studio has created a new Cognac experience space for its represented brand, Hennessy, at Mingzhouli in Ningbo. The Realm of Cognac – Hennessy Store goes beyond a conventional retail boutique, presenting a spatial exploration rooted in the themes of time, sensory perception, and memory. It serves as a design experiment where the tangible qualities of space are interwoven with deeper, more introspective dimensions.

27 February 2026
Red Box Nanjing
Architects: Mix Architecture
At the foot of Red Mountain, the Red Box presents a bold, grounded presence. Its north façade is defined by a large, solid wall facing the park, giving the impression of a rectangular volume poised above the horizontal courtyard wall. To the south, a series of stepped terraces recede in rhythm with the mountain’s slope, drawing the landscape into the architecture and allowing nature to flow seamlessly into the building.

25 February 2026
Well Town and NOUS Land, Beijing
Design and Project Architect: Aedas

image courtesy of architecture office
From a former depot to a contemporary urban landmark, WANLI in Zhangjiawan—located just a stone’s throw from Universal Beijing Resort—injects new energy into the city, emerging as a distinctive mixed-use destination alongside a surrounding hotel and cultural hub. Inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the masterplan departs from conventional layouts and forms, establishing a more fluid spatial organisation.

16 February 2026
LIAO LIAO Cafe Luoyang Museum, Henan province
Architecture: Rongjie Design & Construction Engineering Co, LTD

photo : Wei Zhao
Designers Zhijiang Shan and Fan Li have completed LIAO LIAO Café, a specialty coffee destination located within the grounds of the Luoyang Museum in Henan Province, China. The project reimagines an underutilised roadside site as a social gathering space, bridging the cultural presence of the museum with the everyday ritual of coffee.

11 February 2026
Pujiang Platform, Chengdu
Architecture: MVRDV

picture : Arch-Exist
MVRDV has completed the Pujiang Platform, a viewpoint formed as an arched, earth-covered timber pavilion set within the hills south of Chengdu. Conceived as both a visitor destination and an event space, the project is carefully positioned to frame and celebrate the dramatic natural landscape of central China.

9 February 2026
Lishui Airport Building Design, Zhejiang province
Design: MAD Architects

photo : CreatAR Images
The architectural concept is shaped by the surrounding landscape. The terminal follows the site’s natural contours, its gentle slopes allowing it to merge seamlessly with the terrain. Soft, continuous volumes and fluid geometries give the building the presence of a white bird, quietly at rest among the mountains and forests.

6 February 2026
Sigma Retail Space, Shanghai
Design: ONOAA STUDIO

4 February 2026
Qiantang Bay Cultural District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Architecture: Zaha Hadid Architects

render : Atchain
Within the new canal-side cultural district, the library designed by ZHA is organized around a sequence of inhabitable architectural columns. Acting as both structural supports and symbolic elements—assembled as “stones of knowledge”—these columns house the library’s extensive collections and archives, while also accommodating reading rooms and spaces for community use.

22 January 2026
DANNONG Store at The MixC Taiyuan, Ningwu, Shanxi Province
Architecture: LUOstudio

photo : Jin Weiqi
The orthogonal timber frame has long served as a fundamental structural system across a wide range of East Asian building types, from temples and halls to residential dwellings. Shanxi, as one of the most significant regions preserving ancient Chinese timber architecture, is home to invaluable examples such as Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple. These surviving structures reflect the enduring cultural lineage and craftsmanship embedded in traditional Eastern architecture.

18 January 2026
The Catcher Guesthouse, Shanghai
Design: TEAM_BLDG
The original site comprised two independently built rural houses whose forms and interior layouts could not accommodate the needs of a modern guesthouse. While preserving these existing structures, the design avoids excessive intervention, instead working with their inherent conditions to create a guesthouse with 11 rooms, alongside shared facilities such as a banquet hall and a mahjong room.

15 January 2026
Down in the Clouds Installation in Ningbo, Dun’ao Village, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province
Design: Practice on Earth + Increments Studio
From the outset, the studio sought to capture the serenity of farmlands encircled by hills. Rather than relying on conventional architectural language, they chose to express this atmosphere through a series of short poems and illustrations. This abstract, reductive approach reconsiders the relationship between body and nature, opening up possibilities that feel light, intimate, and playfully engaging.

14 January 2026
Hotel Indigo Nalati, Xinjiang Building
Design: H2 Architecture Design Group and CCD
Anchored in the theme “A Grand Journey Along the Duku Highway, Through the Seasons of Nalati,” CCD integrates mausym—the Kazakh word for “season”—into the spatial narrative, capturing the shifting rhythms of Nalati’s four seasons alongside the daily rituals of nomadic life.
The design draws deeply from the cultural lineage of the steppe. Elements of traditional yurts and winter settlements are subtly reinterpreted within the architectural language, quietly expressing the region’s distinctive identity.

13 January 2026
Yibin High-Speed Railway Station Gateway, Sichuan Province
Design: Pelli Clarke & Partners

render : Pelli Clarke & Partners
Global architecture practice Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed the Yibin High-Speed Rail Station Gateway Development, a nearly 9-million-square-foot district that reshapes the city’s identity—from a transit stop into a destination in western China. The masterplan establishes a dynamic urban center anchored by the high-speed rail station, bringing together eight mixed-use towers, a central park, a digital art museum, and a vibrant retail and cultural district.

13 January 2026
A Coastal Temporary Theate, Guangdong Province
Architect: Jijing & Zhenlin from Re-enchantment Design

photography : Re-enchantment Design, KwanTeo
The venue is situated within a coastal resort in Guangdong Province, China—a region rich in distinct languages, customs, beliefs, and culinary traditions. Since 2015, many villages and farmlands have been rapidly transformed into high-end residential developments and leisure destinations. Notably, resort operators have employed a significant number of local villagers, who also retain free access to the beach. As a result, the shoreline now serves a remarkably diverse mix of users.

9 January 2026
Sunner Museum, Fujian Province
Design: Atelier Alter Architects

photo © Highlite Images
Sunner Group, the country’s largest integrated broiler chicken breeding and processing enterprise, is developing an industry museum that will present its four decades of achievements in agricultural science and technology. Beyond exhibition, the museum is envisioned as a high-end platform for industry exchange, forming a dynamic knowledge hub that supports the advancement of modern agriculture.
Located within Sunner Group’s factory complex in Guangze County, Nanping City, Fujian Province, the project anchors itself in the company’s production landscape while opening it to broader public and professional engagement.

8 January 2026
Dali Transformer Factory, Dali, Yunnan province, southwestern China
Architecture Design: Atelier Alter Architects

photo © Highlight Images
Located to the southwest of Erhai Lake, at the edge of the ancient citadel of Dali, a former abandoned transformer factory is transformed into a theatrical park—an open framework for interpreting the past, present, and future of Dali. The original workshops, warehouses, and offices are repurposed into theaters, multisensory art spaces, and new media catering venues.
This collage of industrial structures, vernacular architecture, and visual art offers travelers a journey of rediscovery—one that resonates closely with the rhythms of lived experience and memory.

5 January 2026
Avenue and Son Skatepark North Coast, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, Northern China
Design: Various Associates

photo : SFAP
The Avenue & Son Skatepark North Coast is located in Riverain, the ninth-phase development of Aranya, covering 15,000 square meters adjacent to the UNDEFEATED SPORTS CENTER. Set within a forward-looking seaside district shaped by art, culture, and creativity, it has quickly become a vibrant destination for both residents and visitors.
At the core of Riverain’s vision, the skatepark integrates sports culture and commercial activity into the public realm, fostering a dynamic and mutually supportive community.

3 January 2026
CXCC SUMMIT 58, Shanghai
Architects: Wutopia Lab
Observation decks in skyscrapers have become essential destinations in contemporary urban tourism. Yet simply rising to great heights is no longer enough to distinguish one tower from another. In response, the client sought to explore the thematic, topical, and cultural dimensions of the skyscraper landmark. The ambition is for the observatory to evolve beyond a mere extension of a supertall building, becoming instead an urban attraction in its own right and an independent cultural destination.

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