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Rushi Hai Life Market / odd

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

The industrial shell wrapping a warm core. Turn daily errands-like grocery shopping, browsing creative goods, buying fresh bread-become cherished memories that extend the vacation lasting longer.

SAANCI Coffee (Aranya North Bay Store) / NUC Studio

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A southern brand arriving on this northern shoreline offers more than the scent of coffee—it delivers an honest answer to the question of "how to belong here." Confronted with a two-story volume, the design orchestrates a double-layered narrative space—bustling yet immersive—structured around spatial hierarchy, communal ties, and everyday poetry.

AVENUE & SON Skatepark / Various Associates

韩爽 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The AVENUE & SON SKATEPARK NORTH COAST is located in Riverain, the ninth-phase development of Aranya, spanning 15,000 square meters beside the UNDEFEATED SPORTS CENTER. Taking root in a pioneering seaside neighborhood defined by art, culture, and creativity, it has become a popular destination for both residents and visitors. The skatepark stands at the heart of Riverain's vision, weaving sports culture and commercial vitality into public environments to foster a thriving, symbiotic community.

Aranya North Shore Community Sports Center / Atelier XÜK

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Aranya North Shore Community Sports Center is located in Qinhuangdao, a three-hour drive from Beijing, situated within the riverside area of the Aranya Ninth Phase project. The site was originally a relatively underdeveloped industrial land. The architects aimed to establish a contextual foundation for the site by drawing on traceable fragments of collective architectural memory, transforming the building into a medium connecting the past with present-day life and providing the community with a rooted public space.

Youyi Bay Community, Mi Casa Su Casa Club Hotel, and Juanzong Apartment / genarchitects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Youyi Bay, a small community comprised of a group of buildings and several plazas, is situated at the southern entrance of the 'Aranya North Shore Community' in Qinhuangdao. It serves as the central hub for public activities in the southern part of the entire North Shore community. As the nearest coastal resort to Beijing, Qinhuangdao is a highly popular tourist destination. The Aranya community has long been renowned for hosting various cultural and artistic events, attracting many families, freelancers, and artists to reside and create here. We aim to create a vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood at Youyi Bay, serving both the community and visitors, through a blend of functions and spatial planning, offering a pleasant scale and intimate atmosphere.

Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase II / Safdie Architects

Valeria Silva — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The second phase of Habitat Qinhuangdao, a high-density residential complex located on the coast of the Bohai Sea, 200 miles east of Beijing, China. This phase more than doubled the size of the initial development, which opened in 2016, to form a vibrant community of over 1,800 households with access to over 40 acres (16 hectares) of gracious public gardens, terraces, and recreational spaces on the ground and in the sky, which is going to fully interpret the positive impact and role of architectural space on community building.

Chapel of Music / Vector Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 23:00:00 +0000

The Chapel of Music is the fourth architectural project completed by Vector Architects in the Aranya Qinhuangdao community. It stands in contrast to its predecessors, including the Seashore Library, Seashore Chapel, and Restaurant y Sea, all of which enjoy direct seafront locations. The chapel is anchored within the heart of the community plaza, known as Youyi Bay. Positioned slightly north of the plaza's center, it neighbors the canteen and market to the north, the residential apartments to the west, together with the hotels and shops to the south.

Juanzong Books and Eureka! Touring Library at Aranya / genarchitects

Collin Chen — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Bookstore - Juanzong Books is located at the Anaya Art Center in Qinhuangdao. It was originally a coffee shop with two spaces connected together, one high and one low, about 100 square meters in total. The clear height of the high space is 6m. Guests enter from the second floor of the Art Center and walk down the stairs to the concierge. The low space is only 2.5m high and opens towards an outdoor sunken theater. Due to the construction period being only one month, we have retained all walls and floors without any hidden construction work and only changed the atmosphere of the space by replacing the suspended ceiling and furniture. Since it is an architectural bookstore, it should have a corresponding atmosphere, not too fashionable or too exquisite. The items in the space should be simple and direct, creating a sense of 'workspace'. The lighting should also use a suitable color temperature for work, instead of the usual warm feeling. We designed all the pendant lamps and bookshelves that shaped the bookstore’s personality and chose a classic form — also an anonymous form — with a long history of drawing tables and stools. We envisioned the space filled with picture albums, drawings, and models that could withstand some messiness.

Aranya Hidden Place Hotel / PLAT ASIA

Collin Chen — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Aranya Hidden Place Hotel overlooks the Golden Coast at Qinhuangdao. This project is accommodated in a 5-story building in the Aranya community. PLAT ASIA atelier d was designated for the hotel's interior design. It arranged 180 guest rooms with all bath pools, a multifunctional lobby, an all-day restaurant, a banquet hall, SPA, a meditation area, and so on. This hotel creates a distinction from urban daily life, which is fast-speed, high-density, and over-information, but a hospitality space that restores the spirits and makes an experience gaining new energy for life. The all-bath-pool-themed hotel explores an immersed journey both in a mental and physical sense. A wander in the teahouse-like lobby evokes the belongings captured in the memory of a time-space trip.

The Lighthouse of Wishes / Vector Architects

Collin Chen — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:00:00 +0000

On the picturesque coastline of Aranya Community, Beidaihe, you'll find the Lighthouse of Wishes situated in adjacence to Vector Architect’s Seashore Library. This is a special project made possible after its selection as the "best new years eve architectural proposal" by the community's residents in an open poll. After two months of design refinement and construction, it was officially completed and inaugurated on December 31, 2022, in preparation for the arrival of 2023. The concept of Lighthouse of Wishes began with an idea – architects retreating to the background, inviting people to participate in the process of architectural design, harnessing civic energy through the process of "co-creation, co-construction, and co-owning", to create a one-of-a-kind New Year's Eve installation structure. The entire façade of the Wishing Beacon was painted by the public. On New Year’s Eve, the final empty canvas on the Lighthouse fills with colour, and at midnight, the entire structure was illuminated. During the following period of New Year's celebration, it continues to offer new aesthetic experiences to locals and visitors. For this project, we particularly investigated material processing and construction, lightweight construction strategies, and cradle-to-cradle lifecycle assessment of construction materials in relation to the relationship between architecture, people, and time.

Falling Hours / BIAD

Collin Chen — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Design Concept
We were struck with the concept of "recording time" when walking along the beach at night in Aranya. As the moonlight danced on the edge of the dazzling ocean and our feet trod on the smooth sand, we saw the intersection of nature and time. As designers, we felt that time spent with loved ones and companions is the most precious and cherished. The framework consists of a membrane structure, cable structure, and steel structure that delicately and subtly interact with the sand.

Zolaism Café / B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio

Xiaohang Hou — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 21:00:00 +0000

The project is the new store of the new-Chinese-style dessert brand “Zolaism” in Aranya, Qinhuangdao, one of the most popular seaside resort communities sitting 3-4 hours drive from the central city of Beijing. Located in the plaza of the community, the site is an addition attached to the north side of the original building of cinema, facing the main road and featuring a wide field of view. The philosophy of the brand derives from the natural beauty of mountains and seas. Because of the brand concept and the humanistic atmosphere of the community by the sea, we drew inspiration from nature while respecting the spirit of the site and continuing the brand spirit.

HARMAY ARANYA Store / AIM Architecture

Collin Chen — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 01:00:00 +0000

This site, on the ground floor of a newly built “traditional” apartment block, is not facing the usually busy street front but is set back on a deep in-active public plaza. Designing a store is one thing, but how to get people to notice it in the first place? Unable to touch the facade, the idea to activate the plaza seemed a natural move. It meant shifting our Focus on the journey, the experience of the public outside the store.

MAD Architects Reveals Latest Details of the Floating Structure Aranya "Cloud Center" in China

Paula Cano — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 05:30:00 +0000

Nearly to be completed and opened in 2023, MAD Architects reveals the construction details that made it possible for the Aranya "Cloud Center" to appear floating above the rolling landscape surrounding it. Located in Qinhuangdao, 160 miles away from the east of Beijing, China, the 2,500-square meters Center will be a public art space for the vibrant artistic seaside community that, from the outside, will mark the center of a sculptural landscape that MAD had conceptualized as a "white stone garden."

Monologue Art Museum / Wutopia Lab

Collin Chen — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Wutopia Lab has been commissioned by Sino-Ocean Group to create a monologue art museum on the park green of SEATOPIA in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao, dedicated to an infinite minority of people who want to be free from worldly distractions. It was completed and opened to the public in July 2022. Queen Dido created the great Carthage by cutting cow skin into thin strips and circling a piece of land. In an open green space at the intersection of three residential clusters in the Weilan Coast campus, I broke up the 1,300 square meter building into different monoliths combined with walls, corridors, and ambiguous spaces into a triangular-shaped 3,600 square meter place, the Monologue Art Museum.

20 Times Architecture Sheltered Animals, Not Humans

AAA — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Architecture may have its roots in sheltering humans from the elements, but that is not to say that architecture is for humans alone. Around the world, there are numerous examples of buildings and shelters designed by architects for other species. Some of these can be whimsical, such as the Dogchitecture exhibit by 10 Mexican architecture firms back in 2013, or the series of BowWow Haus kennels designed by over 80 architects back in 2017, including Zaha Hadid Architects. But others are designed for a more direct impact.

Kennels / Atelier GOM

Collin Chen — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Project concept. The architect and client had been thinking about people and dogs ever since the triangular-shaped "corner" site at the southern-most of Aranya was defined as a pet hotel. Usually, the design model of a small hotel is either a low-rise veranda, or scattered detached building, or the very popular "one big pallet with a bunch of small boxes" complex. From human standpoint, these models are all feasible. But as anyone who has ever owned a dog knows, dogs are happy when they meet other dogs from time to time, but people are not happy because of the panic. Therefore, dog-to-dog encounters should be avoided as much as possible at non-essential times. So, at the beginning of the program, the porch layout was avoided, and there was some torn between freestanding and townhouse style.

Aranya Theatre / TAO (Trace Architecture Office)

Collin Chen — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Aranya Theatre is located at an irregular-shaped site at the center of Aranya, a gold coast seaside resort in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China. The site is surrounded by residential buildings on three sides, overlooking the sea across the dunes. Therefore, how to deal with the relationship between the theatre and the sea, streets, and urban context, as well as how to shape the public space of the town has become the focus of the design.