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Dezeen Agenda features waterfront stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects

November 27, 2025 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the curved Greater Bay Area Sports Centre in China. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Zaha Hadid Architects designed the stadium and sports centre in Guangzhou, China, situated in a waterfront park in the city’s Nansha district. This week’s newsletter also included the winners of this year’s

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Zaha Hadid Architects completes waterfront stadium and sports centre in Guangzhou

November 26, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Greater Bay Area Sports Centre in Guangzhou, China, which includes curved stadiums for sporting and cultural events. Located in a 70-hectare waterfront park in Guangzhou’s Nansha district, the centre includes a 60,000-seat stadium, a 20,000-seat arena for basketball and indoor events, and a 4,000-seat aquatic centre with a

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Linehouse adds translucent sloping facade to Shanghai food market

November 25, 2025 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio Linehouse has transformed an old railway station in Shanghai, China, into a food market by adding a series of translucent sloping screens to create a new facade. The three-storey market, named Ink Ink Market, is located within a residential neighbourhood that was formerly occupied by the Tiantong’an Railway Station. To update the building,

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BLUE Architecture Studio converts historic Yangzhou district into sprawling hotel

November 19, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A cluster of new and old buildings in the ancient centre of Yangzhou, China, has been stitched together into a hotel complex by local firms BLUE Architecture Studio and the Urban Architecture Lab at Southeast University. Named Jiangnan House Yangzhou Guangling, the project is one of several undertaken as part of an urban renewal program

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Tent-like canopies bring “outdoor feeling” to Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund

November 16, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has designed a cafe for Blue Bottle Coffee on Shanghai’s West Bund waterfront, featuring wooden canopies stretched out above a prefabricated concrete counter. The cafe overlooks a historic shipyard in West Bund, forming part of a post-industrial site on the Huangpu River that once contained Asia’s largest cement factory. Dutch firm

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Sigma’s pared-back Shanghai showroom lets photography paraphernalia come into focus

November 12, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Cameras and photographic lenses take centre stage in this minimalist showroom that Chinese firm Onoaa Studio has created for manufacturer Sigma in Shanghai. Onoaa Studio wanted the 500-square-metre showroom to embody the heritage of Sigma, which has been producing photography equipment out of its factory in the scenic mountain city of Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, since 1973.

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BIG unveils Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art topped with ribbon-like roof

November 11, 2025 Christina Yao 0

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art in China, designed by BIG in collaboration with ARTS Group and Front Inc, has been revealed ahead of its opening later next year. Located along the Jinji Lake waterfront in Suzhou, the 60,000 square-metre museum comprises 12 pavilions under a continuous roof informed by the tiled eaves of traditional

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Atelier Xi creates cave-like pavilions for Chinese arts centre

November 7, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Atelier Xi has completed the AYDC Public Art Centre in Guiyang, China, dividing its spaces across three sculptural stone-clad pavilions set in a landscaped park. The art centre comprises a library, an events space and an outdoor stage for the “culture-driven experimental hub” A Yun Duo Cang (AYDC), which translates to Our Land

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AAN Architects creates indoor skatepark overlooking Shanghai

November 7, 2025 Alice Laycock 0

Local firm AAN Architects looked to skateboarding trails when designing the Moreprk Skyline skatepark within a glass-sided space in central Shanghai. Located in the city’s Xuhui District, the indoor skatepark has a glazed facade that allows uninterrupted views across the urban landscape. AAN Architects created the undulating structure using concrete reinforced with steel. “Steel-reinforced concrete provides

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Rippling charity headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects tops out in Shenzhen

November 5, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has released photos of a sinuous high-rise building under construction in Shenzhen, which is set to become the headquarters for education charity Chen Yidan Foundation. The Yidan Center, which has topped out, features two towers with curving floor plates that join at the top, and a bridge element providing a

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