Asia Pacific
Building Design
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RIBA seeks architects for Shanghai Windows Project
23 May 2013
Ten retail locations will house architectural installations
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Wilkinson Eyre wins $1.5bn Barangaroo hotel resort
16 May 2013
Team beat practices including Kohn Pedersen Fox
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Indian 'master' beats Allies & Morrison and Snohetta in $1bn university competition
15 May 2013
Practice founded by Balkrishna Doshi lands prestigious commission
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Charles Correa: a 5-minute crash course
14 May 2013
As the RIBA opens its first exhibition on one of India’s greatest architects, BD whets your appetite with our mini guide to his best best work
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Local architects slate KPF and Wilkinson Eyre's designs for Sydney Harbour tower
8 May 2013
‘It’s all a bit Macau,’ says Philip Cox
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Architect of collapsed Dhaka factory says, 'I designed a shopping centre'
8 May 2013
Building was never intended to be filled with industrial machinery
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MVRDV’s Shanghai CBD starts on site
26 April 2013
Scheme features a shopping centre by Aedas
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RIBA launches trade mission to China
24 April 2013
Practices invited to apply
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Broadway Malyan scoops Dulwich College's fourth Chinese outpost
19 April 2013
Architect actively targeting international schools sector
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Grimshaw submits plans for Australian tower
10 April 2013
Building reaches 336m in height
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Peter Wilson awarded AIA Gold Medal 2013
9 April 2013
Bolles & Wilson founder praised for his dedication to teaching
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Benoy lands China cultural district work
28 March 2013
Scheme starts this year
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Zaha Hadid backs Tokyo 2020 bid
20 March 2013
Architect praises Japanese Olympic bid after winning stadium contest
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Line-up for Expo Build China revealed
20 March 2013
British architects Adam Khan and Rab Bennetts to give talks
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Toyo Ito awarded 2013 Pritzker Prize
18 March 2013
Jury chair Lord Palumbo praised the Japanese architect’s “superbly executed buildings” and “outstanding architecture”
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David Adjaye designs exhibition on Charles Correa
18 March 2013
Exhibition coincides with Indian architect’s gift to RIBA Library
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Work starts on Hadid’s Chinese arts centre
13 March 2013
Scheme being built on edge of lake
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3DReid's first Malaysian project goes on site
8 March 2013
First project to emerge from the practice’s Malaysian outpost
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Don't build boxes in Christchurch
8 March 2013
I was born in Christchurch and was trained there as an architect then went to study in Auckland.
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Frank Gehry completes Maggie's in Hong Kong
7 March 2013
Centre is first for charity outside UK
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V&A and Design Museum on trade mission to Far East
7 March 2013
Foster, Populous and Benoy also fly out with architecture minister
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Aedas and Arup help create Hong Kong pavilion
4 March 2013
The Deep Blue is formed of 130 recycled barrels
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RIBA considers alliances with India's booming universities
4 March 2013
Move comes as David Cameron praises British architects as ‘some of finest in world’
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Young British architects break ground in Christchurch rebuild
28 February 2013
Shigeru Ban’s cardboard cathedral and fourfoursixsix’s offices are first off the blocks
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Prime minister lines up UK architects to build Indian 'economic corridor'
18 February 2013
McAslan, Sybarite join Cameron on largest ever overseas trade mission
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OMA win second tower in Shenzhen
11 February 2013
The 180m- high tower is divided in half by a viewing platform
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AM Progetti’s ‘lucky’ coin close to completion
18 January 2013
Local residents are yet to be convinced by the coin-shaped building in Guangzhou
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Zaha Hadid to sue over copycat design
11 January 2013
Building in Chongqing could be finished before architect’s Beijing complex
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West Kowloon’s big performance
18 December 2012
British firms are central to Hong Kong’s new cultural district, one of the world’s largest arts projects
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Engineers and construction manager take rap for Christchurch earthquake collapse
14 December 2012
CTV studio ‘should not have got building permit’
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British firms in race for West Kowloon art museum
10 December 2012
Six-strong shortlist revealed for M+ while Canadian team takes district’s opera house
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Mario Botta hotel opens in Shanghai
29 November 2012
Rectangular hotel looks onto a Chinese-style ‘Secret Garden’
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Indian school design project awarded McAslan Bursary
21 November 2012
Nicola Antaki receives annual award to improve Mumbai schools
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MVRDV and Arup wait on Jakarta decision
21 November 2012
Pair plan 400m tower in Indonesian capital
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Korea arts project draws Adjaye
19 November 2012
Koolhaas and Weiwei also on board
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Zaha Hadid to design new national stadium for Japan
15 November 2012
80,000 seat stadium must be ready by 2019
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Grimshaw and Wilkinson Eyre shortlisted for Hong Kong’s art-themed park
9 November 2012
Foster & Partners, West 8 and Gustafson Porter also included
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Industrial museum, Chongqing, China by Avanti Architects
9 November 2012
Chinese project will be the focal point for 22ha masterplan
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Broadway Malyan plans new city in India
31 October 2012
Future city said to be largest of its kind in metropolitan area
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In pictures: all-star shortlist for Japan’s national stadium
30 October 2012
Zaha Hadid, Populous and Sanaa among finalists for Tokyo build
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Zaha Hadid's Galaxy Soho takes off
30 October 2012
Swooping structures in Beijing complete
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BIG and Diller Scofidio Renfro chase Barangaroo work
30 October 2012
Winner of five-strong shortlist due in December
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Shigeru Ban designs Moscow pavilion
25 October 2012
Temporary structure for Gorky Park
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West Midlands firm makes shortlist for new Sydney library and plaza
23 October 2012
Flannery & de la Pole up against four Australian practices
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British Council HQ on site
19 October 2012
Jestico & Whiles restore and modernise the facilites in Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron and Grimshaw shortlisted in Melbourne contest
19 October 2012
117 teams compete to restore Flinders Street Station
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Orproject completes Beijing Design Week pavilion
11 October 2012
Structure creates shapes from its leaves
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Arup wins sustainability award for Indian school
1 October 2012
Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh “grows out of the landscape”
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Three architects vie for Sejima prize
20 September 2012
Winner of mentor competition announced in December
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RIBA launches Hong Kong chapter
19 September 2012
Group has over 600 members in China
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Design competition launched for Hong Kong museum
18 September 2012
Rafael Moneo to chair jury for M+ museum
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London architect to masterplan Chinese meditation park
11 September 2012
Work will take place on Buddhist holy land
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Chinese liken RMJM tower to pair of underpants
5 September 2012
Critics turn on Gate to the East design
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Chinese firm wants to build world's tallest tower in three months
31 August 2012
Company hopes to start work this December
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Jean Nouvel tipped to win National Art Museum of China
22 August 2012
French architect ‘beats’ Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry
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Finland and China’s operatic duet
21 August 2012
PES-Architects’ Wuxi Grand Theatre uses 17,000 individual bamboo blocks to create its unique acoustics
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Atkins and BDP announce deals from UKTI summits
10 August 2012
Legacy corporation appoints Atkins to oversee technical transformation of Olympic Park
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UN Studio pair awarded professorships
9 August 2012
Dutch duo get roles at Harvard and Melbourne
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Christchurch recovery plans unveiled
3 August 2012
Populous and Woods Bagot design masterplan for earthquake-damaged New Zealand city
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Make completes first build in mainland China
30 July 2012
Pavilion in Weihai to promote larger development
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Foster's and Wilkinson Eyre up for Lubetkin award
25 July 2012
Four practices named on shortlist
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Broadway Malyan breaks ground on Trump Tower in Manila
25 July 2012
Extruded square tower will rise 58 storeys
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Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center catches fire
24 July 2012
No one hurt in Baku building blaze
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Aecom and Grimshaw chosen for new Sydney railway
23 July 2012
Line will link central business district with North Shore Line
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Foster & Partners and Mecanoo on shortlist for West Kowloon opera house
17 July 2012
Xiqu Centre will be one of first buildings in £1.7bn Foster masterplan
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Broadway Malyan debuts in Vietnam
27 June 2012
Tower includes country’s first department store
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Stacking Green, Vietnam by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
20 June 2012
Two walls of this house on one of Ho Chi Minh City’s busiest streets are composed entirely of cantilevered concrete planters
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Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, by Wilkinson Eyre
18 June 2012
Gridshell structures form the two biodomes at the heart of Marina South gardens
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Sutherland Hussey’s Chinese masterpiece takes shape
28 May 2012
City museum’s frame now overlooks Tianfu Square
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Broadway Malyan to design Chinese HQ
21 May 2012
Architect also hired to design museum, resort and research centre
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BDP wins design competition for Shanghai business district
15 May 2012
Architect’s low-rise district will contrast with high-rise Pudong
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Entries invited for King of Prussia's Gold Medal Awards
15 May 2012
Prizes organised by the Ecclesiastical Architects’ and Surveyors’ Association
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British and Japanese architects explore post-tsunami resconstruction
8 May 2012
Florian Beigel, Baca Architects and Architecture Sans Frontières in RIBA workshop
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Woods Bagot wings in with airport deals
16 April 2012
Australian architect’s projects run across US, China and Australia
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Sheffield students win Article 25 design competition
10 April 2012
Winning Haiti project includes market and government space
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Architect designs Mumbai towers with vertiginous infinity pools
8 April 2012
Residential scheme by Hong Kong practice James Law Cybertecture
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Frank Gehry's luxury housing in Asia
7 April 2012
Opus Hong Kong is architect’s first Asian project
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Denton Corker Marshall wins Australian pavilion job
5 April 2012
Melbourne-based Architect is to design the country’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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10 Design scoops China work
5 April 2012
Plans to make review panels a key part of the planning process are threatened by low funding and concerns over partiality
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RMJM dumped from Seoul project
30 March 2012
Firm launches investigation after losing second scheme in a month
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RIBA to forge links with Far East
28 March 2012
Members will benefit from Foster and Farrell’s experience
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10’s Shenzhen plans approved
26 March 2012
Project includes 18 high-rise towers
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Christchurch plans reconstruction competitions
23 March 2012
International architects sought for rebuild of earthquake-hit city
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London firm triumphs in Shanghai river competition
21 March 2012
PDRC to design Ribbon of Life
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Life-size replica of Angkor Wat to be built in India
20 March 2012
£7.5 million concrete temple will be even bigger than the real thing
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Make designs tower for Mumbai
16 March 2012
Project is firm’s first in India
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RMJM design principal decamps to Sydney
15 March 2012
Senior architect will split his time between the firm and Australia’s Barangaroo scheme
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Henn beats Hopkins to Chinese sports centre
14 March 2012
Chinese practices and universities also shortlisted
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Competition launched for Hong Kong opera house
9 March 2012
Xiqu Centre one of first detailed designs within West Kowloon Cultural District masterplan
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Nine UK firms make cut for Shanghai
9 March 2012
RIBA London initiative is designed to give smaller practices a toehold in China
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Brady warns of China copycat cities
8 March 2012
RIBA president returns from trade mission, urging architects to look at history and culture
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MLA+ wins masterplan work in China and Russia
2 March 2012
Firm set up by Maccreanor Lavington to target work outside its core UK and Netherlands markets
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Lego Architecture unveils Sydney Opera House
28 February 2012
Kit for Jørn Utzon building available from March 1
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Atkins twisted towers win Chinese competition
28 February 2012
Pair will form first phase of wider masterplan in Zhuhai
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Chinese architect Wang Shu wins the Pritzker
27 February 2012
Head of Amateur Architecture Studio will be first resident Chinese architect to receive ‘architectural Oscar’
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Santiago Calatrava debuts in Taiwan
27 February 2012
University project includes new art and design school
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High fees cost Foster’s a £45m Indian gallery win
16 February 2012
Maki wins job over judges’ preferred design
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Foster’s shift to Far East sees Asian profits soar
14 February 2012
Continent now accounts for a third of firm’s busines
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Atkins' Pacific Dream comes true
10 February 2012
But a bend in the river presents Atkins with facade challenge
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RIBA launches China trade trip for small UK practices
9 February 2012
Aim of mission is to introduce UK firms to potential clients and help them understand the opportunities in the region
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Chinese demolish Beijing home of acclaimed architects
31 January 2012
Destruction angers heritage campaigners
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Farrells opens first office in mainland China
16 January 2012
Practice’s KK100 is confirmed as world’s tallest completion in 2011
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Chinese skyscraper boom 'could end in tears'
16 January 2012
History shows economies collapse as tall buildings rise, say analysts
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New Zealand expects construction boom
13 January 2012
Analysts say rebuilding of Christchurch is among work expected to fuel £10.3 billion of construction spending
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Indonesia debut for Broadway Malyan
13 January 2012
Practice appointed to provide concept architecture for cluster of towers
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No u-turn on MVRDV's '9/11' towers
9 January 2012
Developer to stick with “collapsing World Trade Centre” design for South Korea scheme
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JDS and Arup reveal Wuhan competition entry
30 December 2011
Team proposes group of residential towers for housing scheme
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China to become 'creative hub', says Scheeren
23 December 2011
Homegrown practices will soon be designing large projects
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HDR opens office in Shanghai
23 December 2011
Shanghai base is firm’s first in country
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Global earnings of UK’s biggest practices up 25%
16 December 2011
WA100 shows Aedas replacing Aecom as world’s biggest architect on back of China work
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Developer mulls over MVRDV’s Cloud design
15 December 2011
Alternative design may be chosen following outrage
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Farrells' Hong Kong swimming pool opens
14 December 2011
Entire complex set to complete in 2017
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Toyo Ito Architecture Museum opens
13 December 2011
Architect designs museum devoted to his own work on the island of Omishima
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Aedas restructure makes 20 redundant
12 December 2011
Firm cuts staff in response to Far Eastern workload
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RMJM plans model city near Karachi
12 December 2011
Plan, which includes residential, commercial, education elements and a convention centre, will complete by 2030
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Foster's and Rogers snubbed for £65m Sydney ship deal
9 December 2011
Local firms pip British rivals to revamp cruise terminal
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Heatherwick reimagines Hong Kong shopping mall
7 December 2011
Overhaul of 1980s shopping complex complete
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China rules blamed for building problems
5 December 2011
China’s refusal to allow western practices to control their projects beyond conceptual design could be to blame for high-profile building failures, a British architect has claimed.
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International Intelligence: South Korea
5 December 2011
Tourism and growth make Incheon hot property, says Yousun Choi
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Q&A Alejandro Zaera-Polo
5 December 2011
Former partner with FOA, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, now of AZP Architects shares his experiences of working in South Korea
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Aedas to expand its presence in China
28 November 2011
Firm wins four mixed-use projects in the country, where is now has 40% of its staff
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Mott Macdonald plans Guilin scheme
21 November 2011
Mott MacDonald has been commissioned to design a 145,000sq m mixed-use development in Guilin, Guangxi Province, China.
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Sutherland Hussey shortlisted for Chinese drama academy
15 November 2011
Practice competing to design £30 million extension to Beijing Central Academy of Drama
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Ole Scheeren designs three-volume tower for Kuala Lumpur
14 November 2011
Former OMA partner creates 268m-high building for Malaysian capital.
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Alsop opens offices in China and Canada
14 November 2011
Will Alsop’s London-based architecture practice All Design has opened offices in China and Canada, cementing Alsop’s stated intention to seek the majority of his work outside the UK.
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Foster establishes Shanghai outpost
14 November 2011
Foster & Partners has opened an office in Shanghai, China, making it the firm’s second in the country.
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Ai Weiwei invited to build studio in Ghent
14 November 2011
Belgian artist Wim Delvoye has invited Ai Weiwei to recreate his Shanghai studio in Belgium.
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International intelligence: Mumbai
7 November 2011
The home of Bollywood has never blazed more brightly
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International Q&A: Mumbai
7 November 2011
Chris Lee and Kapil Gupta of Serie Architects discuss their work in India’s financial centre
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Consortium to plan Mumbai race track
7 November 2011
Companies including Capita Symonds and Populous have been hired to prepare the case for a race circuit and linked development in Mumbai.
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RMJM resort opens on China beach
7 November 2011
Hyatt International has opened a 20ha, RMJM-designed hotel complex on China Beach in Vietnam.
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Gwangju follies
2 November 2011
The South Korean city has commissioned the first of a series of 100 pavilions with which it plans to reassert its historic urban form
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Boxpark claims New Zealand pop-up mall breaches intellectual property rights
1 November 2011
Christchurch scheme for retailers hit by earthquake ‘fails to acknowledge east London inspiration’
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Works starts on Rogers controversial Barangaroo development
31 October 2011
Construction has started on Rogers Stirk Harbour’s £3.3 billion Barangaroo development in Sydney Harbour.
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10 Design rides high in China
31 October 2011
Ex-RMJM firm scoops £3bn of jobs
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PCKO establishes office in Shanghai
31 October 2011
PCKO Architects has opened an office in Shanghai, China, with former London associate Hansong Li as managing director.
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Design Council takes reviews down under
31 October 2011
The Design Council is to export design review expertise to the southern hemisphere under a partnership agreement with the Integrated Design Commission of South Australia.
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Pritzker Prize ceremony to be held in Beijing
28 October 2011
Top prize in architecture heads to China for the first time
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Gehry: 'I would love to work only in Los Angeles'
28 October 2011
US downturn forces practice to look abroad for work
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PLP unveils plans for Silk Road city
27 October 2011
Masterplan will bring ancient Silk Road trading city into 21st-century consumer age
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Foster’s shortlisted for heritage museum
24 October 2011
Foster & Partners has been shortlisted to design a museum at Patna close to the border with Nepal.
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GMP completes Tianjin West Railway Station
24 October 2011
GMP Architects has completed the 180,000sq m Tianjin West Railway Station in China after a construction period of two and a half years.
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Future Memory Pavilion opens in Singapore
20 October 2011
A temporary pavilion designed by Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt has been installed at the National Museum of Singapore to mark the city’s annual architecture festival ArchiFest.
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Atelier Boronski beats Kengo Kuma to design Taiwan museum
20 October 2011
Atelier Boronski has beaten Japanese rival Kengo Kuma to take first prize in the design competition for a new art museum in Taipei.
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Woods Bagot names new chair
19 October 2011
Clive Williams appointed to oversee One Global Studio initiative
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Avery plans timber tower for Siberia
17 October 2011
Avery Associates has been asked to submit a masterplan for central Irkutsk, one of Siberia’s biggest cities.
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NVB school launches Jeju education city
17 October 2011
NVB Architects’ 1,400-pupil school on the South Korean island of Jeju has opened, completing the first phase of a “global education city”, a place where mainly English will be taught.
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PRP Architects opens first China office as firm's profits fall
14 October 2011
PRP is setting up an office in Beijing with the practice predicting it will eventually add more
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Broadway Malyan unveils designs for media hub in Malaysia
10 October 2011
Broadway Malyan has completed a masterplan for a media village in Medini, Malaysia, that will support the $130 million Pinewood Studio that is due to open in 2013.
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International intelligence: Turkey
10 October 2011
Growth makes the gateway to Asia a prime location
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International Q&A: Femi Oresanya
10 October 2011
The vice president of HOK London discusses his work in Turkey
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MAD finishes Mongolian museum
5 October 2011
MAD Architects has completed its first museum building – in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.
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Coop Himmelb(l)au's Busan Cinema Centre opens in Korea
4 October 2011
The Cinema Centre in Busan, South Korea, designed by Wolf D. Prix at Coop Himmelb(l)au, has opened.
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Nanoscience centre for Jestico & Whiles
3 October 2011
Jestico & Whiles has been appointed to design the new Australian Institute of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney.
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Make's InfoCube debuts at Beijing Design Week
3 October 2011
Make Architects has unveiled the InfoCube, a specially designed information centre that can be packed up and reassembled at various exhibits and exhibition venues around the city during this year’s Beijing Design Week (29 Sep-3 Oct).
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Foster & Partners' Kowloon masterplan revised to include ideas from vanquished rivals
30 September 2011
Design competition for individual buildings announced
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A home where the buffalo don’t roam
30 September 2011
A painful modernisation scheme will see Ahmedabad’s riverside slums emptied and concreted over
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HOK and Zaha Hadid bid for world's largest airport
28 September 2011
Foster & Partners also in running for Beijing hub
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RMJM bags Hyderabad metro commission
26 September 2011
RMJM has won a contract to design one of three metro lines in Hyderabad, India.
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Steven Holl's Raffles City development in China tops out
26 September 2011
Steven Holl Architects has celebrated the topping out of its Raffles City development, known as The Sliced Porosity Block, in Chengdu, China.
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Serie’s civic centre triumphs in China
23 September 2011
Serie Architects has won a competition to design the Wuxi Xishan Civic Centre in China.
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Rafael Viñoly: the outsider
23 September 2011
As the public at last begins to look round Firstsite, we remember when its architect won his first big commission in 1989
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Latest images of Beijing media centre revealed
20 September 2011
Chinese architect BIAD Ufo behind steel shell design
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Frank Gehry’s Hong Kong tower nears completion
19 September 2011
Frank Gehry’s first residential project in Asia is nearing completion in Hong Kong.
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Ken Yeang of Llewelyn Davies Yeang scoops two Gold Medals
19 September 2011
Ken Yeang, design director of London-based architects Llewelyn Davies Yeang, has been awarded two Gold Medals by the Malaysian Institute of Architects.
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Henn beats Wilkinson Eyre and Broadway Malyan in China contest
16 September 2011
Germans beat British to land Chinese tower
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Farrells' KK100 nears completion
16 September 2011
Tower is tallest by a British architect
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First look: Mole’s luxury complex takes its cue from Taiwan’s vernacular
12 September 2011
Mole Architects, working with Gianni Botsford and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, has unveiled plans for a 71,000sq m development on the edge of Hsinchu City, the “Silicon Valley” of Taiwan.
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Kapoor and Isozaki create mobile concert hall
6 September 2011
Project will tour earthquake-damaged Japan with artistic performances
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BDP wins two major projects in China
5 September 2011
BDP has won two major projects in Suzhou, China via its Shanghai studio.
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Work starts on Populous' Manila indoor arena
2 September 2011
World’s largest arena to be used for church gatherings in the Phillipines
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When Delhi's Kingdom of Dreams is shut
2 September 2011
India’s capital shows us the process of becoming a metropolis — and it isn’t pretty
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Shigeru Ban designs cardboard cathedral for earthquake-hit Christchurch
25 August 2011
The New Zealand city of Christchurch has commissioned the Japanese architect to design a temporary structure on the site of its 1864 cathedral that was destroyed during February’s earthquake.
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British student reaches final in mAAN Seoul Conference competition
24 August 2011
An architecture student from the University of East London has been shortlisted for an international student design competition and has flown out to Seoul to present it
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Zaha Hadid unveils Wangjing Soho complex
22 August 2011
Commercial development will be built near Foster & Partners’ Beijing Airport
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China's Jinsha Lake international design competition abandoned
16 August 2011
Denton Corker Marshall and Zaha Hadid among firms working on bridge designs
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Aecom and Grimshaw team wins in Brisbane
15 August 2011
Multidisciplinary partners chosen to create ’airport city’ masterplan
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Foster plans new Beijing headquarters as base for China expansion
12 August 2011
Firm’s office will neighbour Ai Weiwei gallery and promote Chinese art and architecture
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The people who look like buildings
12 August 2011
Thanks to Paul Mckay who sent in this picture of a fellow passenger on a recent internal flight in China.
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Ai Weiwei 'subjected to immense psychological pressure' by police
11 August 2011
Police grilled Chinese architect 50 times and dissected his tweets
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Cox Rayner wins Brisbane ferry terminal competition
11 August 2011
Local firm edges out two rivals
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New South Wales backs RSHP's £3.3 billion Barangaroo scheme
8 August 2011
Work to start on three towers of Sydney waterfront development
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Bespoke opens China office
8 August 2011
Decision made to meet demand for Mandarin speakers
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Woods Bagot nabs more Perth work
8 August 2011
Second phase to be headed by ex-HOK man Richard Spencer
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Woods Bagot wins Australian museum extension
4 August 2011
Museum celebrates Chinese heritage of gold rush town
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Aecom triumphs in £4 billion Kuala Lumpur competition
2 August 2011
River of Life masterplan will transform Malaysian rivers
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BDP scoops campus job in Himalayas
1 August 2011
BDP has won an international competition to design its biggest project to date in India: a 230ha college campus in the Himalayas.
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Shigeru Ban pioneers earthquake homes
1 August 2011
Shigeru Ban has designed a temporary housing scheme for victims of the Japanese earthquake.
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Broadway Malyan completes cricket community studies
28 July 2011
Indian developer wants to build sports academies and homes around cricket grounds
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Nightingales lands first Malaysia deal
26 July 2011
Scheme worth £30m to start next year
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Benoy wins three jobs in India worth £1.5 million
25 July 2011
Dedicated India team to be created at London office
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Tonkin Liu’s Shi Ling Bridge
25 July 2011
A new “shell lace” structural technique was used to create a conceptual design of a 120m-long steel pedestrian bridge in China.
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BDP to masterplan city in Fujian
25 July 2011
BDP will develop a sustainable masterplan for a 15sq km city in Hua’An County, a World Heritage Site in the southern Fujian province of China.
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Serie Architects’ Chinese calligraphy museum rewrites the traditional garden
25 July 2011
Serie Architects has unveiled designs for a new calligraphy museum in Linyi, in China’s north-eastern Shandong province.
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Working abroad: Wilkinson Eyre
18 July 2011
A surprise win in Guangzhou proved a springboard for the firm which has since won a range of global projects, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Farrells and Ryder Architecture announce joint venture to target China
13 July 2011
Medical sector joint venture wins its first commission
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Asif Khan to design Singapore pavilion
13 July 2011
Ice and sand structure to form part of Royal Academy of Arts series
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FJMT wins planning for Oxford uni laboratory
12 July 2011
£170 million project for university’s Science Precinct
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Ricardo Legorreta wins top architecture prize
11 July 2011
Leading Mexican architect joins British sculptor Kapoor as recipient of 2011Praemium Imperiale arts prize
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Cracks begin to show in Zaha Hadid's Chinese opera house
11 July 2011
Shoddy workmanship blamed for problems with the structure
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Aedas looks to China
11 July 2011
Plans to double Shanghai operation and open Cairo and Chicago offices
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Green light for Herzog & de Meuron's Hong Kong police station conversion
11 July 2011
Purcell Miller Tritton and Herzog & de Meuron have won permission for the £145 million redevelopment of one of the most historic sites in Hong Kong.
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Hadid appointed for Beijing office scheme
11 July 2011
Zaha Hadid Architects has been commissioned to design an office complex in Beijing by Soho China.
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New Zealand team wins Christchurch post-quake competition
11 July 2011
A team representing New Zealand Wood has won a 48-hour design challenge exploring the rebuilding of Christchurch after a series of devastating earthquakes earlier this year.
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UK firms show Kuala Lumpur plans
01 July 2011
BDP and Aecom are among five shortlisted practices whose designs for a £4 billion masterplanning competition in the centre of Kuala Lumpur went on show today.
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Benoy announces four project wins in China
29 June 2011
Combined fee value is over £10 million
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Arup signs deal with Chinese giant
28 June 2011
Pair make agreement on future work in front of David Cameron and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao
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International Intelligence: Pearl River Delta
27 June 2011
The mega-region is still continuing its dramatic transformation, says Donald Johnson
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International Q&A: John Letherland
27 June 2011
The partner at Terry Farrell & Partners discusses his work in the Pearl River Delta
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Wilkinson Eyre tower wins award
27 June 2011
A tower by Wilkinson Eyre, once the tallest British-designed building in the world, has won a prestigious international award.
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Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill wins 606m-high Chinese tower
24 June 2011
Finalists in design competition included SOM and HOK
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Ai Weiwei released on bail after agreeing to pay 'evaded tax'
22 June 2011
The Chinese artist and architect Ai Weiwei has been released, according to Chinese state media.
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Brits on shortlist for Brisbane Airport work
20 June 2011
Grimshaw and Wilkinson Eyre on final shortlist
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China to get a new skyscraper every five days for next three years
14 June 2011
Research prompts Financial Times to question whether boom means bust is on the way
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Working abroad: Sutherland Hussey
13 June 2011
Yet to complete a scheme in its native Edinburgh, the practice now finds 75% of its projects in China
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Sutherland Hussey bags third tallest tower in Beijing
10 June 2011
Tongzhou Tower is latest in a string of Chinese wins for Scottish practice
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Rogers defends Barangaroo against 'worst of Dubai' slur
6 June 2011
Scheme will turn city’s ’back door into another front door’ says Rogers
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China success for RMJM spin-off
6 June 2011
Former employees criticise Goodwin
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RMJM’s Hong Kong Station on track
6 June 2011
Work is set to start on RMJM’s £190 million plans for the new Admiralty Integrated Station in Hong Kong.
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Chinese practice scoops Bow Street hotel scheme
3 June 2011
Shanghai’s Neri & Hu spearheads Chinese invasion by winning prestigious London project
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The Chinese are coming
3 June 2011
With Chinese firms beginning to crack London, is the balance of the industry about to shift?
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Unesco advisers set to reject Corbusier
3 June 2011
An advisory group to Unesco is expected to recommend that more than a dozen buildings by Le Corbusier are turned down for World Heritage status.
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Yaya award helped Serie Architects win China commissions
2 June 2011
BD’s Young Architect of the Year Award has helped last year’s winner to land significant projects abroad, it has emerged.
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International intelligence: National Capital Region of India
31 May 2011
The world’s most populated area offers long-term potential
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Stride Treglown to plan Sydney campus
31 May 2011
Stride Treglown has been appointed to work on the masterplan for Macquarie University campus in the northern suburbs of Sydney
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International Q&A: Paul Katz
31 May 2011
KPF’s managing principal talks about his work in India
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A vital distinction
27 May 2011
There needs to be a distinction between the country and its regime (Architects accused of silence over Ai Weiwei, News, May 20).
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Alsop, Adam and Ai Weiwei
27 May 2011
Will Alsop and Robert Adam should be ashamed of themselves.
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Protests over Ai Weiwei are misguided and naive
27 May 2011
To correct a slightly, but only slightly, mashed up quotation (“Architects accused of silence over Ai Weiwei” News May 20): obviously there are limits on where one’s personal distaste and regret mean that on a professional level one would not have dealings with a place.
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Plasma Studios' bridge gives visitors views over Horticultural Expo in China
25 May 2011
Chinese scheme will see giant steel trellis covered by climbing plants to provide natural shade.
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Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art undergoes £35 million redevelopment
25 May 2011
Project is work of local architect and the civic architects’ department
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Young Australian architects tour London practices
25 May 2011
Fosters, Rogers, Chipperfield and Carmody Groarke open their doors to competition winners
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CZWG’s first China project shortlisted
23 May 2011
CZWG has been shortlisted for what would be its biggest job to date – a vast new business and commercial district in Shenzhen, China
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Architects accused of silence over Ai Weiwei
20 May 2011
Practices are putting business interests before conscience, says Rosbottom
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BDP to design sustainable housing in Nanjing
17 May 2011
Eco-homes designed specifically for Chinese market
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Rogers Stirk Harbour offsets slump with overseas work
12 May 2011
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has made up for a major drop in British work by expanding overseas, its latest accounts reveal
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Five new British embassies to be opened
11 May 2011
The UK is to open or re-open up to five new embassies around the world as part of a major reassessment of its diplomatic priorities.
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How to breach the Chinese wall
9 May 2011
China’s rapid urbanisation means work opportunities for overseas practices. But cultural empathy can be just as important as design talent.
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SOM wins third big project in Vietnam
9 May 2011
Masterplan aims to set new standards for ecologically sensitive development
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Mumbai student wins Foster travelling scholarship
9 May 2011
Plan to study sanitation in eight cities impresses judges
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KCAP wins shenzhen regeneration work
9 May 2011
KCAP has won a competition to regenerate two central districts in Luohu city, Shenzhen.
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MVRDV wins Chinese cartoon museum
6 May 2011
MVRDV has won an international design competition for the £82 million China Comic & Animation Museum (CCAM) in Hangzhou, eastern China.
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Sheffield firm wins Chinese airport scheme
5 May 2011
Weddle Landscape Design has won a £3 million international design competition to improve the environment at Ningbo Airport in China.
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International design contest launched after Queensland floods
4 May 2011
One design sought for eight ferry stations
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Broadway Malyan breaks ground on Singapore flats
4 May 2011
Broadway Malyan has broken ground on The Boutiq in Singapore, a 3,700 sq m residential-led scheme on site of the historic Mitre Hotel.
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Foster's Chinese bank HQ takes shape in Hangzhou
27 April 2011
Work starts on 100m tall building
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Broadway Malyan and Wilkinson Eyre shortlisted for Chinese scheme
27 April 2011
Broadway Malyan, Wilkinson Eyre and German practice Henn Architekten have made it through the first round of public voting for a landmark development in the southern Chinese city of Haikou.
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Architects share Chinese wisdom with aspiring practices
26 April 2011
’Stop work if you are not paid within 30 days,’ says one
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Xi’an horticultural expo completes
26 April 2011
Plasma Studio and Groundlab’s Flowing Gardens project for the International Horticultural Expo in China (pictured above) has been completed, ready for next week’s opening.
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Global PechaKucha raises Japan funds
19 April 2011
Nearly 100 cities around the world have taken part in a global PechaKucha event to raise funds for the reconstruction of Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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KPF designs whole district for Gurgaon
18 April 2011
KPF has unveiled its design for a new neighbourhood in Gurgaon, one of the fastest growing cities in India.
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Foster launches cruise terminal
18 April 2011
A foundation stone-laying ceremony was held to mark the start of construction of Foster & Partners’ Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong.
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Nearly 100 cities hold PechaKucha events for Japan
15 April 2011
Architects invited to take part or donate this weekend
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First look: ARU’s biennale folly will mark site of South Korean uprising
15 April 2011
The Architecture Research Unit (ARU) has revealed designs for a folly for the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea.
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Arup Associates sets up China studios
11 April 2011
Architectural wing of engineering giant to open three new offices
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World's highest hotel opens in KPF Centre
11 April 2011
The highest hotel in the world has opened in KPF’s International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong.
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Staff pay delayed again at RMJM
6 April 2011
Salaries have been delayed to RMJM staff in Hong Kong once more, despite the ongoing injection of £8 million into the firm under last month’s refinancing deal.
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Haikou shortlist put to public vote
4 April 2011
Zaha Hadid, Wilkinson Eyre and Broadway Malyan are among eight teams competing for a landmark development in Haikou, a city in the Chinese province of Hainan.
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UN Studio's Korean shopping centre opens
31 March 2011
Facade is wrapped in world’s largest illuminated surface
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Sergison Bates wins Novartis job in China
28 March 2011
Sergison Bates has won its biggest ever project, designing a key building for Novartis’s huge new Shanghai campus.
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Caruso St John’s Gagosian opens
28 March 2011
The latest outpost of the Gagosian Gallery, designed by Caruso St John and Hong Kong-based architects Atelier Pacific, has opened on Hong Kong Island.
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Morrison parachutes in new bosses to run RMJM's Hong Kong office
23 March 2011
RMJM has dispatched two senior architects to run its Hong Kong office after it was hit by a series of defections and a blast by a managing principal, angry that staff wages were not being paid on time.
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Woods Bagot unveils Perth airport scheme
21 March 2011
Woods Bagot has revealed its expansion plans for Perth Airport’s international terminal.
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Apollo Architects' Sendai houses survive Japan earthquake
18 March 2011
Satoshi Kurosaki of Tokyo-based Apollo Architects has confirmed the two family houses he completed recently in Sendai have survived the earthquake.
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Shigeru Ban in Japan earthquake aid
16 March 2011
Pompidou-Metz Centre designer hands out cardboard partitions for shelters
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Safdie Architects' Artscience Museum opens in Singapore
16 March 2011
Safdie Architects’ Artscience Museum has opened in Singapore. It features 10 curved “petals” or “fingers” containing the 21 galleries, which are naturally lit from apertures in the finger tips illuminating the sculptural interior wall forms.
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UK industry ready to respond to Japan earthquake
15 March 2011
Foreign help on standby as scale of damage emerges
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David Lock lands third China job
15 March 2011
Practice says it plans office in country later this year
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Nikken Sekkei staff tell of their earthquake fears
14 March 2011
Staff at Nikken Sekkei’s Tokyo headquarters have told how they feared for their lives as the worst earthquake in 130 years wreaked devastation across the north of Japan.
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HKS aims high with Noida hilton
14 March 2011
HKS has been commissioned to design a five-star Hilton hotel in Noida, one of New Delhi’s four satellite cities.
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RMJM bosses need to go, says Far East rival Aedas
10 March 2011
Aedas chairman attacks practice owners after recruiting their entire China projects team
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John Thompson & Partners lands east China eco-town
7 March 2011
JTP has won an international competition to design an eco-town for 80,000 people in eastern China, beating firms from Italy and Germany.
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RMJM principal suspended after email tirade
4 March 2011
Hong Kong staffer made public attack on CEO Peter Morrison
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China rises to top of global construction
4 March 2011
Housing boom spurs continued growth
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SOM wins techno town contract
3 March 2011
SOM has won a commission to masterplan a 180ha hi-tech town in Danang.
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Populous unveils Nanjing youth Olympics masterplan
3 March 2011
Populous has unveiled pictures of its masterplan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.
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SOM commissioned to design masterplan for IT company's 'city' in Vietnam
2 March 2011
Project is SOM’s second recent win in Vietnam after Green Tech City in Hanoi
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Devon team second in Manila site contest
28 February 2011
A team of graduates from Devon practice Roderick James Architects has won second place in an international competition to design disaster-resistant housing and associated community facilities for a site in Taguig City, Manila.
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Work to start on second Denton Corker Marshall tower in Singapore
21 February 2011
Work will start this year on the second tower in Denton Corker Marshall’s $1 billion Asia Square development in Singapore.
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UK firms chase Chinese and Russian cultural districts
18 February 2011
Farrell shortlisted to masterplan Beijing development; Chipperfield for St Petersburg plan.
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RSHP slims Barangaroo C4 tower for Sydney
17 February 2011
Rogers Stirk Harbour has refined the design of the first of its controversial Barangaroo towers in Sydney, Australia, following pressure from neighbours, who complained it would block their sunlight.
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Crab lands Aussie architecture school job
15 February 2011
Peter Cook’s practice to work with Australian Royal Gold Medal winner
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Lessons from Down Under
14 February 2011
What can Australia tell us about template-based school design?
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Keppie scoops £75m clubhouse deal
14 February 2011
Glasgow-based Keppie has won a £75 million commission to design 30 “corporate clubhouses” near the Great Wall of China
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JTP engages locals to draw up Indonesian resort masterplan
7 February 2011
John Thompson & Partners is developing a sustainable masterplan for a 250ha eco-tourism resort on the Indonesian island of Lombok
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Norr reveals Jenan City masterplan
7 February 2011
Archial’s sister practice Norr has unveiled its design concept for Jenan City, the largest privately owned project under development in Saudi Arabia
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Farrells towers above the rest
2 February 2011
Work is nearing completion on what will be the tallest building ever built by a British architect.
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Moonies stall Rogers’ Seoul skyscrapers
31 January 2011
A £1.3 billion deal to build skyscrapers designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour in the centre of Seoul has hit the rocks because of a £110 million lawsuit filed by the Moonies.
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Benoy pushes into India after trade mission boost
31 January 2011
Contracts could lead to opening of three studios
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Six shortlisted for Jinsha bridge scheme in China
31 January 2011
Zaha Hadid, Denton Corker Marshall and Wilkinson Eyre have been invited to enter a limited international design competition for a pedestrian bridge in China
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Farrells to build Beijing's tallest tower
28 January 2011
Terry Farrell & Partners has won permission for Beijing’s tallest building, the £607 million Z15 Tower.
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Herzog & de Meuron's Hong Kong arts scheme goes in for planning
27 January 2011
Herzog & de Meuron reworked original high-rise designs in collaboration with Purcell Miller Tritton
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Kowloon chief quits after five months
24 January 2011
The troubled West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong has suffered another blow after British chief executive Graham Sheffield quit after just five months on health grounds.
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How do I set up in China?
21 January 2011
China is the biggest market in the world for architects, but how do you go about getting a piece of the action?
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Rem Koolhaas wins overhaul of Hong Kong transit system
18 January 2011
OMA has been commissioned to produce the new design strategy and branding for Hong Kong’s public transport operator.
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Zaha Hadid announces opera house launch
14 January 2011
Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House will be officially opened in February, after a fire delayed work by more than a year.
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Winning homes in Haiti design competition revealed
13 January 2011
One year after earthquake, five teams picked for dwellings designed to fight spread of TB
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Prince's Foundation plots Indian Poundbury
12 January 2011
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has opened its first Indian office, in Mumbai, with the aim of building a new eco-town based on Poundbury and bringing values of “sustainable urbanism” to projects on the sub-continent.
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McAslan completes first Haiti project since earthquake
12 January 2011
Only one major reconstruction project has been completed in Haiti a year on from the devastating earthquake that killed at least 200,000 people and left a further 2 million without shelter.
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Stephen George signs Chinese deal
10 January 2011
East Midlands architect Stephen George International has signed an agreement with a Chinese company to work on low-carbon building projects in the country following a successful trade mission.
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Aedas tops Foster’s in Hong Kong
7 January 2011
Aedas has beaten Foster & Partners to its third major project in Hong Kong in a year.
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UK architect opens office in India
4 January 2011
ADP eyes education and health jobs
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Atelier Ten lighting designer flies out to Haiti to work on community centre
23 December 2010
Visit will coincide with anniversary of earthquake on January 12
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Asia leads the world in office completions
22 December 2010
Two-thirds of the world’s office completions will be in Asia in the next two years, say analysts.
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Aedas and Rogers Stirk Harbour win $400 million Hong Kong government competition
20 December 2010
Aedas and Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners have beaten stiff competition from Fosters and SOM to land a $400 million project to design a customs processing centre for the Hong Kong government.
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Gehry unveils his 'mystery' $150 million Australian debut
17 December 2010
Frank Gehry has revealed images of his first building in Australia, a $150 million business school for the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
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China - the new home of the skyscraper
6 December 2010
Country overtakes US as the leading nation for tall buildings
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Aedas and Broadway Malyan fall victim to Chinese fraudsters
26 November 2010
Practices are among those to have identities faked by firms seeking work in China
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Wilkinson Eyre looks to expand China work
26 November 2010
Wilkinson Eyre is planning to use its recently completed Guangzhou International Finance Centre tower scheme as the launch pad for more work in China.
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Woods Bagot wins Perth Airport expansion project
22 November 2010
Woods Bagot has landed the first phase of an airport scheme in Australia with a deal to expand Perth Airport’s international terminal.
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Make and Benoy join Cameron in China
12 November 2010
Trip controversy as artist Ai Weiwei speaks out over human rights
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The head, heart and tail of Zaha Hadid’s Chengdu art centre
12 November 2010
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its plans for the largest cultural building in China, the Chengdu Contemporary Art Centre in Sichuan province
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Crab wins second place in Taiwan Tower competition
11 November 2010
Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham’s Crab Studio has won second place in an international competition to design the 300m tall Taiwan Tower in Taichung.
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Architects 'complicit in China's crime', claims dissident Weiwei
9 November 2010
Architects working in China who do not raise concerns about the regime’s human rights record are complicit in a crime, dissident artist Ai Weiwei said today.
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Hugh Broughton reveals plans for South Korean Antarctic base
9 November 2010
A British and South Korean consortium, including Hugh Broughton and Samoo Architects, has revealed an image of its design for the Jang Bogo Antarctic Research Station.
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Wilkinson Eyre towers over Guangzhou
05 November 2010
Wilkinson Eyre’s £290 million Guangzhou International Finance Centre, the tallest building ever designed by a British architect, is nearing completion
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Fuksas wins China tower competition
3 November 2010
Italian practice Massimiliano Fuksas has won an international competition to design a 200m-high tower in China.
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Richard Murphy reveals competition designs for Chinese whisky distillery
29 October 2010
Richard Murphy Architects has unveiled early competition designs for a major whisky distillery HQ, hotel and conference centre in China
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Heatherwick's Shanghai Expo pavilion spines to be auctioned for charity
28 October 2010
Thousands of the clear rods protruding from Thomas Heatherwick’s pavilion for Britain at the Shanghai World Expo will be sold to raise money for charity.
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Foster's Vietnam debut is underway
22 October 2010
Work on Foster & Partners’ first project in Vietnam - the VietinBank Business Centre - is now underway.
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Toyo Ito wins Praemium Imperiale
27 September 2010
Toyo Ito has been awarded the Japanese Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate for 2010.
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RMJM saw problems with Delhi games job
23 September 2010
Delhi Commonwealth Games masterplanner RMJM has revealed it pulled out of the project shortly after winning the contract because of fears that there were “issues” with the job.
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BDP wins Chinese masterplan
20 September 2010
BDP has won an international competition to masterplan and design most of the buildings within an urban regeneration project in the city of Foshan in southern China.
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Foster and Koolhaas unveil rival schemes for Hong Kong cultural district
20 August 2010
OMA and Foster & Partners have revealed images and details of their conceptual masterplans for a major new £1.8 billion (HK$21.6 billion) arts district in Hong Kong.
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BDP’s winning designs for Nanjing Medical University in China
4 August 2010
BDP has won an international design competition to create a new faculty of medicine and administrative building at Nanjing Medical University in China.
