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Grand Egyptian Museum Opens and Torre dei Conti Collapses in Rome: This Week’s Review

Reyyan Dogan — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +0000

This week's architectural highlights traced the intersections between heritage, climate awareness, and contemporary design practice. As the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale approaches its closing, projects exploring collective intelligence and material experimentation offer reflections on small-scale responses to global challenges. In Egypt, the completion of the Grand Egyptian Museum marks a long-anticipated moment in cultural preservation, while new competition initiatives in Jordan extend this dialogue toward sacred and archaeological contexts. Complementing these developments, the recognition of Abdelwahed El-Wakil with the Tamayouz Lifetime Achievement Award highlights the continued influence of tradition-informed design across contemporary practice.

"To Emerge Naturally from the Site": Zhang Pengju on His Aga Khan Award-Winning West Wusutu Village

韩爽 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:30:00 +0000

The 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, one of the most prestigious honors in the field, celebrates projects that not only exhibit architectural excellence but also profoundly improve the quality of life for their communities. Among this year's winners is the West Wusutu Village Community Centre, a project in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, by Chinese architect Zhang Pengju. In an era when rural areas often face social fragmentation and a loss of identity, this community center offers a powerful counter-narrative.

Scentana Art Museum / zhang pengju

韩爽 — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:00:00 +0000

She is a loner by nature.
Designed by zhang pengju, professor of Inner Mongolia university of technology, the Scentana art museum is located in the east of Ruyi river, a north-south river in the east of Hohhot. Its grey-black appearance and "peculiar" shape do not attract many busy pedestrians and urban guests. It seems that she has always existed out of sight, in an invisible ideal kingdom. Loneliness seems to have been her destiny since her birth. However, as a witness of the city, she is poised to look at the city, watching this restless, restless world.

Architecture Building of Inner Mongolia University of Technology / Inner Mongolia Grand Architectural Design Co.Ltd.

韩爽 — Wed, 29 May 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Text description provided by the architects.
At the beginning of 2010, the architecture design institute of the Inner Mongolia University of Technology decided to expand the office space, finding a new site to construct a new design building. What we were pursuing was a spiritual expression beyond physical dimension , showing the expression of space and the symbolism of the site.

Zhaojun Museum / DAQI ARCHITECTS, China Architecture Design & Research Group

罗靖琳 — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Zhaojun Museum locates 9 kilometers to the south Hohhot and 20 kilometers to Hohhot Baita International Airport. The museum was completed in August, 2017. After repeated verification and comparisons, the new site of Zhaojun Museum was eventually selected to locate at the starting point of Zhaojun Green Tomb south axis. Since the massive architecture is set at the origin of paved path and the south front of scenic spot, it will reform the site to create a new axis, and then be connected to the Zhaojun Aotsuka - built 2000 years ago in time and space.

Entrance for XANADU Park / Atelier Li Xinggang

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:00:00 +0000

The workstation locate south of the Site of XANADU Park(the ruin of the Yuan Dynasty Upper Capital), consists ticketing, security, management offices, resting and tourists’ lavatories for the park, and is part of the Site’s application to become a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site. Architecture locates on one side of XANADU axis as a cluster.

With "Ordos – A Failed Utopia," Raphael Olivier Captures the Contradictions of Chinese Construction

Vladimir Gintoff — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:30:00 +0000

For the past quarter century, China’s rapidly expanding economy provided architects with an almost endless supply of building opportunities. Easy lending allowed for an exponential rise in infrastructure projects – China used more concrete in three years than the United States used in the entire twentieth century. But in a country where the number of cities with over a million inhabitants jumped from 16 in 1970 to 106 in 2015, the speed of development enabled high profile, but flawed, experiments alongside the many necessary building projects. There is perhaps no better example of this phenomenon than the city of Ordos. The Inner Mongolian metropolis – home to 100,000 – which sprang from the northern desert in the mid-2000s was designed for over a million inhabitants. The reality of the city came to public attention in 2009 when Al Jazeera wrote about an early uncertainty in the Chinese real estate market.

'Dove of Peace' Church / WEAVA Architects

Alison Furuto — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:00:15 +0000

WEAVA Architects shared with us their proposal for the protestant church of Dong Sheng district, in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. After three years of being on stand-by and having the site relocated twice, the city and the Association of Protestants of Ordos came to an agreement to pursue the construction of the new church. As a result, the team revealed a fresh and even more accomplished design scheme, which is based on one of the most ecclesiastical symbols. This led them to the dove of peace, which is the main concept for this church. More images and architects’ description after the break.