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Shenzhen Galaxy WORLD / AECOM

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

In a high-density and ever-growing city like Shenzhen, the RMB 28 billion Galaxy WORLD is far more than a conventional campus development. Anchored on a complex mountain–water base, the project creates a highly distinctive landmark while accommodating the layered needs of industry growth, urban life, and public activity on limited urban land — realizing the vision of "industry as foundation, city as catalyst, capital as connector, and ecology as co-creator."

nice rice Upper Hills Concept Store / say architects

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:08:00 +0000

The project is Located in Shenzhen's Upper Hills, a city shaped by the convergence of Chinese and Western cultures in modern times and deeply influenced by the Nanyang heritage, say continues the narrative of the "rice house," grounding the space in the idea of home—a response to the city's openness and inclusiveness. This is not about opening a store, but about making a home.

LOFT 53 Block / NUC Studio

Valeria Silva — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:03:00 +0000

Trees understand time better than buildings. At LOFT 53, jackfruit trees and banyan trees are the true natives. The design follows the human instinct to seek shade, transforming commercial foot traffic into a spatial experience that aligns with the rhythms of nature.

Shenzhen Mingwan School / Perkins&Will

Andreas Luco — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Shenzhen's Qianhai-Dachan Bay Port Zone, the Tencent Global Headquarters campus comprises five neighborhood blocks. Designed by Perkins&Will, Block 05 West integrates a multi-program set of facilities—Mingwan School (private), Qianwan School (a nine-year public school), a community activity center, and a comprehensive transit hub—responding systematically to the district's combined needs across education, culture, sport, and daily mobility. Under complex program demands, the scheme relies on a clear, concise spatial and massing strategy to form a distinct yet harmoniously interwoven architectural ensemble. As the educational centerpiece of this cluster, Mingwan School was jointly founded by the Chen Yidan Foundation, Tencent, and Shanghai Jingzhi. The school provides full-time education from kindergarten through high school, with boarding options available for senior students. Drawing on deep insights into the future of interdisciplinary, personalized, and practice-based learning, Perkins&Will has designed a forward-thinking, innovative learning community on the vibrant "Penguin Island".

OASIZ / Ruhaus Studio

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:00:00 +0000

The project originated as a response to Shenzhen's high-density urban environment. As a city rapidly built from reinforced concrete, Shenzhen's spatial experience often exhibits a highly ordered, industrialized character. Oasiz's new store attempts to re-examine the relationship between industrial construction and natural life within this context—not by creating direct contrast or conflict, but by establishing a logic of coexistence within a single spatial system.

Renovation of “Homestead Land” in Shenzhen Shajing / MOZHAO ARCHITECTS

Valeria Silva — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

History of Shenzhen's Homestead Land Development. Since the reform and opening up, Shenzhen has entered a phase of rapid urbanization, requiring a large amount of land for urban construction. To this end, the government implemented "land acquisition" within the Special Economic Zone in 1992, and completed "land transfer" in Bao'an and Longgang districts outside the Special Economic Zone in 2004, achieving full nationalization of land. At the same time, all farmers in Shenzhen were converted to non-agricultural urban residents, and the original rural collective economic organizations were restructured into shareholding cooperative companies. After 2004, Shenzhen no longer had any rural collective land, and therefore, the concept of "homestead land" no longer existed in name.

Apelron Contemporary / Aether Architects + Archigress

韩爽 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The project is located within the Qingshuihe Railway Relics in Shenzhen. The original building was a railway warehouse are sandwiched between the road and the railway; however, we believe that this crowded urban relationship is a unique landscape and place phenomenon. How can we transform heaviness into lightness, proximity into distance, darkness into brightness, and discover the unexpected in the everyday landscape? What is scenery? We hope to ponder these questions in our projects.

Shenzhen Hongling Education Group Huafu Experimental School / UASZ

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Finding Nature Within the Concrete Forest - In terms of its relationship with nature, the site presents a striking contradiction. Although located next to Shenzhen Central Park, the campus is separated from it by surrounding high-rise residential towers, which form a barrier between the park and the school. The project therefore began with a fundamental question: how can nature be brought back into the everyday life of the campus?

Shenzhen Longhua Foreign Languages School (Fucheng Campus) / Z&Z STUDIO

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This project is located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Guanlan Avenue and the planned Xitian Road in Longhua District, Shenzhen. Covering a site area of 24,478.25 square meters and a total construction area of 55,737 square meters. It falls within the urban renewal unit of Tianbei Industrial Zone in Fucheng Street, Longhua District. The project is a nine-year compulsory education school comprising 54 classes—36 primary school classes and 18 middle school classes—with a total capacity of 2,520 students. Located within a high-density urban village undergoing regeneration, the campus forms a key educational facility within the urban renewal context.

Redevelopment of Pingshan Elementary School into a Nine-Year Integrated School / CCDI Dongxiying Studio

Andreas Luco — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Location Analysis — The Dasha River Ecological Corridor flows along the western side of the site and empties into the sea, using water as a link to connect various educational and urban public facilities. Leveraging the improvement of the Dasha River, Pingshan School has become a significant spatial node at the northern end of the Dasha River.

Jiuyao Kindergarten / ZHUBO Design

韩爽 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000

The project is located at the corner of a super high-rise project site on the south side of the golf course in Futian District, Shenzhen. The site available for construction is very limited, and there is not much extra space after accommodating the basic functions. Although the kindergarten is small in size, we still hope to create a simple and interesting space for the children.We believe that a kindergarten should be a "small world, small universe" for children, rather than a "prison" for keeping them. But how can we fit a "small universe" into such a small kindergarten?

Hongling Middle School Shixia Campus / Tumushi Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Intervention of Hongling Middle School Shixia Campus: A Street-Life Community — In 2018, Shenzhen launched the "8+1 New Campus Initiative" to explore new models for schools in high-density urban environments. The intervention of Hongling Middle School Shixia Campus—founded in 2004—became the only expansion project completed in the plan's first phase, laying groundwork for the subsequent "100 Campus Renewal" initiatives.

Yutang Culture and Sports Center / GL Studio

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Yutang Culture and Sports Center is located in Tianliao Community, Yutang Subdistrict, Guangming District, Shenzhen, at a local center enclosed by a dense urban-village context and surrounding industrial areas. Conceived as a highly integrated civic complex, the project accommodates a wide range of public programs including a sports hall, library, cultural center, art gallery, performance space, community health service center, bus terminal, and retail facilities. With a total floor area of approximately 54,690 square meters—about 29,000 square meters above ground and 25,690 square meters below—the project primarily serves residents of nearby urban villages as well as the adjacent industrial workforce. The surrounding industrial land is currently undergoing renewal, situating the project within an urban context that remains in flux.

Zaha Hadid’s Legacy and Büro Ole Scheeren’s Róng Museum: This Week’s Review

Reyyan Dogan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:30:00 +0000

As architectural discourse continues to expand across cultural, educational, and civic domains, this week's developments highlight how the discipline operates simultaneously through legacy, knowledge production, and large-scale public engagement. From reflections on influential figures and their enduring impact to evolving academic landscapes and new forms of cultural infrastructure, architecture is positioned as both a repository of ideas and an active agent in shaping contemporary identities. At the same time, projects spanning entertainment, museums, and waterfront developments point to a growing emphasis on hybrid programs and experiential environments, where architecture mediates between culture, public life, and global audiences.

Evenly Lit, Not Overlit: Rethinking Brightness in Subtropical Cities

Jonathan Yeung — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:00:00 +0000

In South China, there is occasionally an urban myth—especially across Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou—about choosing a home that avoids western light. Over decades, the west-facing sun has proven to be a particularly difficult condition to live with: its low angle in the afternoon, its aggressive heat gain (especially in summer), and the way it penetrates deep into interiors. With global warming and longer, hotter seasons, that much-romanticized "afternoon glow" is increasingly experienced less as romance and more as glare, heat, and fatigue. Although this wisdom circulates as a community-driven rule of thumb, it carries an undeniable architectural clarity about building orientations: avoiding western light is not only about thermal comfort, but also about avoiding the sharpest, most intrusive form of direct illumination—light that strikes at the most unforgiving angle, washing surfaces, flattening depth, and turning rooms into high-contrast fields of discomfort.

Three Service Pavilions of Guiwan Park / hang cheng studio

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This project is located within Guiwan Park in Qianhai New District, Shenzhen, comprising 3 of the park's 6 service buildings. The urban design of Qianhai New District originates from the winning Qianhai Water City masterplan by Field Operations in 2010. As the first water corridor park delivered under this masterplan, Guiwan Park stands as the core public open space of Qianhai. The hcs design team participated in the full landscape planning process of Guiwan Park, with deep involvement in the early site selection and functional positioning of the buildings, treating architecture as an organic component of the park's masterplan. The project took six years from initial strategy to completion, with the design evolving from form-first to function-driven, and finally to a moderately diversified approach. At its core, the project explores the interdependent and symbiotic relationship between architecture and landscape, embodying the essence of spatial practice through dynamic dialogue with the site context.

Compute Isn’t Weightless: AI Infrastructure and the Architecture of the City

Jonathan Yeung — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:30:00 +0000

As artificial intelligence continues to disrupt sectors of the economy and reshape entire industries, institutions and individuals alike are bracing—and rapidly adapting—to the changes that machines seem to hold over our heads. Yet the more precise pressure is not simply AI altering the way people work and live, but the business models and investment logics of the companies developing these systems: the concentration of capital, the new requirements for compute, the race for compartmentalized talent, and the infrastructural footprint needed to sustain it. In the Greater Bay Area—anchored by Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong—this dynamic is especially pronounced. Government-led initiatives are actively accelerating the industry's growth, with policy and planning mechanisms beginning to translate an ostensibly intangible field into physical form: zoning updates, earmarked land, and the emergence of AI-oriented building types, from research laboratories to large-scale data centers.

Weiwu School / MENG YAN | URBANUS

Valeria Silva — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

"We approach the construction of the academies as an opportunity to reactivate community culture. The proposal seeks not only to mend the existing spatial fabric of the city but also trace and reveal the valuable cultural threads embedded in its surroundings. We hope to 'nourish' the future of the district, weaving a more generous urban space and a richer urban life through the architectural design of two new schools."Meng Yan.