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Park in Market / Office Canopy of Architecture

Andreas Luco — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:30:24 +0000

PARK IN MARKET — Commissioned by Westlake Construction Investment Group, Office Canopy of Architecture transformed a standardized public building into a park-style marketplace with community attributes. Since West Lake District launched the agricultural market quality enhancement action, marketplace renovation has become a cultural calling card of Hangzhou. The team of Office Canopy of Architecture was responsible for the full-professional design, construction drawings, and implementation management across architecture, interior, landscape, installation, graphic visuals, and lighting.

Spatial Renewal and Scene Stitching of Birland Food Court / Atelier Diving Bell

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:30:24 +0000

The project is located in the core area of Liangzhu Culture Village—Birland. As a typical low-density, open-air cultural and artistic block, it adopts a composite positioning of "community support + cultural light-vacation + cultural-art fusion." It not only carries the daily life of local residents but also attracts families, creative design enthusiasts, pet lovers, and outdoor communities with its unique placemaking spirit. Birland Food Court sits at the golden section of the commercial circulation, serving as a key hub connecting Birland Plaza, Villagers' Plaza, and the core green space. It acts as the critical piece in activating the vitality of the entire district.

Aesop West Lake Store / atelier suasua

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:52:00 +0000

The site is situated on the eastern bank of West Lake, just a hundred steps from the water's edge. The retail space is well-proportioned with two street-facing facades, while the main entrance is tucked within the mall. The spatial strategy is clear and concise: a continuous curved wall gracefully anchors the entrance to the streetscape on the east, naturally demarcating the front and back of house.

OnLand / amass

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0000

OnLand is a retail space centered on folk crafts and handmade objects. The project builds on amass's long-term street research, translating informal construction methods observed in everyday environments into a spatial system that sits between a workshop and a market.

The Westlake University Library / UAD

Valeria Silva — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:44:00 +0000

A New Landmark, A New Identity: The Westlake University Library. The Library brings together the Main Library (floors 2–5), the History Exhibition Hall and Archives (ground floor), the AI Research Center (floors 6–7), and a tower. Located at the northwest end of the Science and Technology Island, the building anchors the campus's central precinct. It enters with the Academic Hall into a compositional dialogue—one square, one circular. Above, the 108-meter tower and the 80-meter Academic Exchange Center echo each other at the southeastern tip. Standing in visual counterpoint, they command sweeping views across the core campus from multiple vantage points.

The Linping Fintech Tower / CUC

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:44:00 +0000

The Linping Fintech Tower is located in the core business zone of the Nine-Grid Block, Nanyuan Subdistrict, Linping New Town. This area is recognized as the emerging eastern city center of Hangzhou. The tower enjoys a prime natural setting. It is adjacent to the Fengshou Lake Cultural and Ecological Corridor and the green belt of the Computing Power Town. The project consists of twin towers, with heights of 120 meters and 100 meters. They are situated on two adjacent plots. At the base, a skybridge spans an urban road to connect the two towers. Thanks to its twisting, ascending silhouette, the tower has quickly become a new landmark for the region.

Hangzhou Prism / OMA

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000

OMA's design for Xinhu Hangzhou Prism is integrated into the beauty of the surrounding natural landscape. The complex will house a hotel, retail space, lofts, and an atrium garden. Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, is known as one of China's most beautiful cities with a high quality of life.

OMA Completes Hangzhou Prism Mixed-Use Development in China's Future Tech City

Reyyan Dogan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:30:00 +0000

OMA has completed the Hangzhou Prism, a large-scale mixed-use development in Hangzhou's Future Tech City district, China, following a design and development process that began in 2016. Commissioned by Xinhu Real Estate Group and led by OMA Partner Chris van Duijn, with Michael Hadjistyllis serving as project architect, the project combines residential units, a hotel, offices, commercial spaces, and public amenities within a single building volume. Marking OMA's first completed project in Hangzhou, the development occupies a central site within one of the city's emerging innovation and business districts.

Houses of Stealth (Tonglu Senbo Resort) / SpActrum

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000

The Way of Stealth: A Renewal Strategy Respecting Coexistence
Since 2022, this landscape in Hangzhou Tonglu has undergone its largest transformation. After careful investigation, SpActrum concluded that while the original site strategy had failed in form and material, the trees that grew alongside the buildings over twenty years stood out as an effective natural strategy. The first task was to persuade the client to abandon a "radically refreshed" look, instead rebuilding cabins and walkways with contemporary techniques – a return to a "non-referential" state.

Heritage Transformations, New Capital Cities, and Residential Innovations: This Week’s Review

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:30:00 +0000

This week's news landscape brought together diverse approaches to built and cultural heritage, ranging from the design of a Museum of Jesus' Baptism at a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Jordan to major transformations of modern industrial sites and the development of major cultural districts. The World Monuments Fund's support for 21 locally led heritage projects foregrounds conservation strategies that reinforce the role of architecture in safeguarding both material and intangible heritage. Across this week's highlighted projects, adaptive reuse, landscape integration, and the reconfiguration of civic space emerge as recurrent strategies for extending the life and relevance of existing built environments. The projects also reflect broader contemporary concerns, including material research in timber construction, zero-waste urban installations, large-scale residential efficiency, and infrastructure upgrades linked to global events like the Olympic Games. Framing these developments within a wider territorial perspective, discussions on relocating capital cities worldwide offer an example of how geopolitical discourses continue to shape architecture, revealing the evolving relationship between the built environment and structures of power over time.

Hangzhou Empathy Museum / TAOA

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0000

This community art museum is a transformative renovation based on an unfinished project, originally consisting of a completed underground parking garage and a planned three-story above-ground structure. To meet the museum's functional requirements, part of the underground space was converted into exhibition halls and seamlessly connected to the levels above. This project represents an "inside-out" creation: the evolution of internal needs reshaped the original structure and facade, allowing it to metamorphose into an entirely new entity while strictly adhering to the planning prototype of "a cube truncated by a right cylinder" and the constraints of the existing subterranean structure.

Zaha Hadid Architects Designs Cultural District Along the Qiantang Bay Central Water Axis in Hangzhou, China

Antonia Piñeiro — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Zaha Hadid Architects has released images of its design for the redevelopment of the waterfront along the Zhedong Canal in Hangzhou's Xiaoshan District, China. The Qiantang Bay Central Water Axis project envisions a sequence of landscaped parklands, terraces, and gardens along the canal basin, proposing the transformation of former industrial areas into a green corridor extending toward the city center. The proposal adds to other recent design initiatives in the area, including Snøhetta's Qiantang Bay Art Museum, planned at the confluence of the Qiantang River and the Central Water Axis, as well as Zaha Hadid Architects' Grand Canal Gateway Bridge, a pedestrian bridge intended to connect the firm's 800,000-square-meter Seamless City masterplan on the east and west banks of the Grand Canal.

new 33 coffee / Hill Architecture

韩爽 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The building is a combination of blocks with high and low juxtaposition in a straight north-south shape. The first-floor building near the low tea hill in the south is designed as a kitchen and dining room, and the second-floor building with a wide view in the north is designed as a coffee shop. Several huge trees in the west of the site can reduce indoor energy consumption in hot summer, which creates favorable conditions for the design of large-area glass floor-to-ceiling windows. The lower terrain in the northeast of the building can be seen by tea gardens and villages in the distance.

Hangzhou International Innovation Institute / HENN

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Situated in the Yangtze River Delta, the Hangzhou International Innovation Institute of Beihang University is a new international hub for aeronautical education and research. Designed as both an academic campus and a science and technology park, it brings together a diverse community of students, researchers, and commercial companies in one dynamic environment.

Westlake University Yungu Campus / HENN

Andreas Luco — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Established in 2018, the Westlake University is a research university dedicated to fundamental scientific research and cutting-edge technological innovation in China. Located in the west of Hangzhou, the campus houses state of the art academic facilities, laboratories, offices, sports facilities, canteens, and housing for an international body of students and faculty. The design for the Westlake campus addresses a range of scales and needs, from its urban- scale master plan to individual buildings. The site is defined as a series of concentric rings that organize the campus both physically and conceptually: the Academic Core, the Water Loop, and the Living Loop.

Snøhetta Selected to Design the New Qiantang Bay Art Museum in Hangzhou, China

Antonia Piñeiro — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +0000

Snøhetta has been selected to design the Qiantang Bay Art Museum, a new cultural landmark within the Qiantang Bay Future Headquarters development in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, China. Conceived in collaboration with the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd. and Buro Happold, the project encompasses architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design over 18,000 square meters. The museum will form part of Hangzhou's expanding downtown area along the Qiantang River, serving as an important destination for art, culture, and public life.

Grand Canal Gateway Bridge - Hangzhou / Zaha Hadid Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Construction of the Grand Canal Gateway Bridge in Hangzhou is now complete. When opened for public use later this year, the footbridge will unite the 800,000 square metre Seamless City masterplan under construction on the east and west banks of the Grand Canal. The centre piece of the city's new 14.7-hectare River Middle public park and river promenade, the bridge and surrounding master plan by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) reconnects the city with its historic Grand Canal and Qiantang River by integrating homes, workplaces and amenities for its community with vital civic spaces for recreation, leisure and tourism.

Xiao Feng Art Museum / ZAO/Zhang Ke Architecture Office

韩爽 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The museum dedicated to the painter couple Xiao Feng and Song Ren is situated at the foot of the Daci Mountain, a few kilometres to the south of the renowned West Lake in Hangzhou.