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Samsung Library No. 3, supported by the Shaanxi Hope Project / Wall Architects of XAUAT

Valeria Silva — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000

As part of the Samsung (China) Semiconductor Corporate Social Responsibility program, Yuan Architecture Studio has completed a series of three rural school libraries since 2020 at the foothills of the Qinling Mountains. The first, "Zhongnan Book Pavilion" (2021), revitalized its campus environment; the second, "Qin Feng Book Pavilion" (2023), created a shared space bridging school and village life. Through these projects, we recognized that rural construction requires a clear distinction between architect-controlled elements and open-ended components—inviting teachers and students to co-shape their environment. This approach aligns closely with N. John Habraken's concept of "Open Building."

Shaanxi Culture and Art Museum (1st Phase) / TJAD Atelier L+

Valeria Silva — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0000

The Shaanxi Culture and Art Museum project is located in Xi'an's Xixian New Area, east of the West Third Ring Road and west of the Epang Palace ruins. The planned site area is 94,000 square meters, with a total construction area of 135,000 square meters. The project primarily includes a performing arts theater, a Silk Road Art Museum, and comprehensive cultural facilities.

UIA 2030 Award Announces Regional Finalists of Its Third Cycle Across Five Global Regions

Reyyan Dogan — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:30:00 +0000

The International Union of Architects (UIA), in partnership with UN-Habitat, has released the Stage 1 results of the third cycle of the UIA 2030 Award, identifying the projects selected as Regional Finalists. The shortlisted entries were drawn from submissions across the UIA's five global regions and will advance to the second stage of evaluation. Established in alignment with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the award framework positions the built environment within broader discussions on sustainable urban development and global policy objectives.

Younch Hotel / MUDA-Architects

韩爽 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Located in the historic Huangchengfang district of Xi'an, Younch Hotel is a 16-room boutique hotel designed by MUDA-Architects. The project is situated near the northeast corner of the city's ancient walls, in close proximity to a Ming Dynasty gate tower. The site is defined by the intersection of historical context and urban renewal, offering an opportunity to reinterpret the heritage of the thirteen-dynasty capital within a contemporary framework.

Xi’an International Football Center / Zaha Hadid Architects + iDEA + AISA

韩爽 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The new Xi'an International Football Centre has hosted its inaugural international matches with China's National U-23 team facing teams from Australia, Timor-Leste and Northern Mariana Islands in the Group D qualifying matches of the 2026 Asian Cup finals that will be held in Saudi Arabia. Xi'an International Football Centre's 60,000-seat stadium and training grounds are integral to the ongoing development of football in China. Initiated by the Chinese Football Association and China's national sports development organisations, the new football centre provides facilities of the highest standards to nurture the sport across all levels—from international competition to grassroots community leagues and youth training academies; enabling all generations to gather, play and celebrate football's unifying spirit.

Earthen Architecture and Culture (Xi'an) Research Center / OnEarthStudio

Andreas Luco — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The original building features a steel frame structure with a rectangular plan, elongated north-south and shorter east-west. It is composed of two immediately adjacent volumes of differing heights: The lower southern volume is a single-story, forming a large, undivided space, while the taller northern volume spans two stories, incorporating a 9-meter-high double-height space at its junction with the lower volume.

Courtyard Renovation for the GuanZhong Mangba Art Festival / Daipu Architects

韩爽 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:00:00 +0000

In 2023, the Guanzhong Mangba Art Festival invited architects to participate as exhibitors for the first time. We were commissioned to renew a courtyard in the village of Caijiapo, in the Huyi District of Xi'an. This project is situated north of the Qinling Mountains, where, in 2018, teachers and students from the Experimental Art Department of the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, led by Mr. Wu Xiaochuan, founded the Guanzhong Art Cooperative. This initiative also led to the Guanzhong Mangba Art Festival, which has since launched a series of art and rural construction projects.

Xi’an CCBD / Heatherwick Studio

韩爽 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0000

A new district designed by Heatherwick studio has opened in Xi'an, honouring the Chinese city's legacy of craftmanship and ceramics. The Xi'an Centre Culture Business District (CCBD) is located south of the city's historic centre between the ruins of the Temple of Heaven and the prominent Shaanxi TV tower. The district blends a retail podium with walkable streets, terraces and open plazas, offices, apartments, accommodation, green spaces, and a vertical park.

Zhicang Coffee / MOS Wood & Stone Design

Valeria Silva — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Zhichang Coffee is located on Mihe Farm, within the site of the Weiyang Palace of Han Chang'an City, outside the Second Ring Road Northwest of Xi'an. The farm is situated in Lixiahao Village, one of the 33 existing villages within the site of Han Chang'an City. In recent years, under the dual strategies of site preservation and urban renewal, Lixiahao has set the development goals of "site + block" and "site + special village", striving to preserve the original village landscape while continuing the local culture and promoting the integration of major site preservation into modern human settlements.

Paper space : A folded hometown / Immediacy Design and Research Office

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000

[Paper Space] is one of the space installation works of THE FIRST ORIGINS EARTH ART FESTIVAL-2024 XIAN CONTEMPORARY DESIGN WEEK. And in July of the same year,it participate in SHIWAN CHINA CITY PUBLIC ART SEASON . The work is inspired by the designer's life experiences in recent years. He has traveled to many places including Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing, which made him pay attention to the proposition of "hometown". Hometown does not specifically refer to the countryside, but a spiritual deficiency that is common among modern people.

Stefano Boeri Architetti China Wins Competition for Landscape-Inspired Technology Museum in Xi’an

Maria-Cristina Florian — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:30:00 +0000

The satellite practice of Stefano Boeri Architetti in China has won the tender for the Culture CBD Modern Technology Experience Centre in Xi'an, the capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. The new technology-focused museum is set to become a hub for scientific and cultural exchange. The winning project takes inspiration from the area's natural landscape, characterized by a tortuous system of rivers and mountains, as well as the culture of the ancient city of Xi’an.

Tianyuhe Rural Design Center / FARchitect

Andreas Luco — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Background. Since 2020, FARchitect has participated in the Tianyuhe Village landscape beautification project as the design party, and established close connections and trust with the village collective and villagers in design and on-site services. At the beginning of 2021, encouraged by the national rural revitalization policy, Tianyuhe Village collective decided to introduce "New Village Craftsman Residents" and turn four idle rural homesteads into "Craftsman's House" homestays with the theme of craftsmen's studios, as a model project for the village collective to explore new models of rural revitalization. The four "Craftsmen's Houses" include the rural restaurant of the Chef's New Village Resident's Studio, the rural traditional Chinese culture museum of the Calligrapher's and Painter's New Village Resident's Studio, the rural design center of the Architect's New Village Resident's Studio, and the rural homestay college of the homestay operator's New Village Resident's Studio. However, FARchitect had been deeply influenced by this new model of rural revitalization and accepted the invitation as New Village Resident Architect, becoming the masters of the rural design center.

Xi'an Weiyang Road Primary School / Qu Peiqing Studio

Valeria Silva — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Design Context. In recent years, the rapid development of Weiyang District has led to the intensification of the contradiction between the surge in education demand and land scarcity. The comprehensive building construction project of Weiyang Road Primary School is a design task born in this context. The project site is extremely narrow and irregular, with existing teaching buildings and surrounding high-rise residential buildings, making the conditions very complex.

Heyuan Office / Qiaodao Studio

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000

In Xi'an, a city rich in historical context, Qiaodao Studio has uniquely blended traditional aesthetic spirit with modern design principles to meticulously craft a four-story office space for a consulting firm. This space not only reflects the ancient city's elegance but also embodies modern innovative flair. The design's core inspiration comes from a deep understanding of human inner activities, cleverly transforming the basement into a realm immersed in the subconscious, symbolizing infinite creative potential. The upper floors represent the clear stream of rational thought, extending the boundaries of thinking through logical and rational design language.

Heatherwick Studio Unveils Design for New Shopping District in the Ancient City of Xi’an, China

Maria-Cristina Florian — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 06:30:00 +0000

Heatherwick Studio has revealed the design of a new shopping district in the historic city of Xi’an in Shaanxi, China. The proposal aims to highlight the city’s rich heritage of ceramic-making and, through this, to create a sensory experience for visitors in opposition to the restricted act of online shopping. Spanning over 1115,000 square meters, the development features a mixture of functions, from offices, apartments, and a hotel, to a variety of green spaces, rooftop terraces, gardens, and a sunken terrace, all doubling as social spaces. The project is under construction and scheduled for completion in 2024.

Zaha Hadid Architects Unveils the Design of the Daxia Tower in China

Maria-Cristina Florian — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 06:30:00 +0000

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed the design of the Daxia Tower, to be built in the High-Tech Economic and Technological Development Zone of Xi’an, one of China’s largest inland cities with a population nearing nine million people. The tower will mark the center of Xi’an’s business district and will include offices, retail, and ancillary facilities, all designed with data analytics and behavior modeling to ensure a balanced disposition of spaces.

Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts Extension / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Collin Chen — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

The Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts is located at the beginning section of Xi’an’s Datang Everbright City, south of the famed Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. The client asked for a new architectural icon at the East Entry of the museum. In response to the brief, Neri&Hu’s proposal takes the idea of a monolithic urban monument as the guiding concept to not only satisfy the museum’s newly expanded cultural and commercial functions but to also serve as an anchor and a durable symbol of social history for the surrounding urban fabric. Since the vicinity of the site is occupied by existing galleries, the design intervention minimizes the impact of the new building through careful consideration of the architectural massing and detailing.

TanArt Community / Nomos Architects

Collin Chen — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Xi'an Shiyou University residential campus boiler station was planned in 1994 and finally completed in 1997. However, due to changes in the urban heating system, it was closed in 2014. When we visited it in 2019, despite being relatively new, the boiler station presented an intriguing image of a historical ruin, surrounded by urban residential buildings. This type of coal-burning boiler station was once common in North China. However, with the shift to a different energy supply system, this type of facility will no longer be built. The tall chimneys and large coal scuttles that were designed with instrumental rationality have become obsolete with the end of production. However, these useless structures, which were not regulated by present zoning laws, remind us of the simplicity and straightforwardness of that rapidly developing decade. This type of boiler station has become a historical symbol of those golden years, even though most are still under 30 years old.