Posts tagged 'China'

The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China’s Instant City

Once just a rural borderland, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub Words by Peter Smisek Every great city –

Opinion

The landscape of humanity: how the countryside holds the keys to the future

The Planta Solar 20 power plant near Seville, Spain. PS20 produces electricity with large movable mirrors called heliostats. Alamy. As climate catastrophe looms, the interdependence

Features

OMA’s new prism-shaped building starts construction in Hangzhou

OMA’s Xinhu Hangzhou Prism. Photos by Bloomimages OMA‘s newest project in China, the Xinhu Hangzhou Prism, a mixed used space in a pyramid-like building, broke

Architecture

The China Design Museum in Hangzhou is European modernism writ large

China Design Museum in Hangzhou. Photo: Qian Yunfeng / Shi Zheng It is a fortress designed by Portuguese Pritzker-winner Álvaro Siza to house a collection

Features

Designer Ximi Li talks Shanghai’s multicultural past, changing present and prosperous future

By3 TV cabinet coffee table system. All images courtesy: Ximi Li The Shanghai-based furniture maker explains why the city has always lured creative people and

Features

Chinese Propaganda Posters: how design won the revolution

Propaganda Posters were a vital way of instilling the values of the new order after the Civil War in China, but they quickly diverged from

Features

Ou Ning: An Artist Profile

Ou Ning is more than an artist, he’s a unique voice in modern China. He chatted to Icon’s Crystal Bennes about his work and

Architecture

ICON 177: The global politics of Chinese eco-cities, Ou Ning, Shanghai deco, propaganda posters and the V&A in Shenzhen

Following an irritable European tour last year in which President Trump questioned the United States’ role in Nato and, perhaps more significantly, pulled the US

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