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PLP builds ‘world’s first’ AI research lab in Shanghai
London-based architect PLP has built what it says is the world’s first purpose-built artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory in China
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Boom time: Heatherwick’s profits up by £14m as turnover doubles
Heatherwick Studio has reported a 450 per cent increase in profits and a doubling of turnover, to a record £49.6 million, following an ‘extraordinary’ year
Child-friendly B&B resort, GuangShan
An open international ideas contest – featuring a £16,600 (150,000 RMB) prize fund – is being held for a new child-friendly holiday resort in GuangShan, China [Deadline: 31 January 2024]
Heatherwick, ZHA and Fosters lose out in race for huge Chinese HQ job
Büro Ole Scheeren has won a major contest to design Tencent’s new headquarters in Shenzhen, China, selected from a shortlist which included Heatherwick Studio, Zaha Hadid Architects and Foster + Partners - some of the UK's biggest names
Chinese ‘floating forest’ school named world’s best building at WAF 2023
A floating forest school in China by Bejing-based Approach Design Studio has been named World Building of the Year at this year’s World Architecture Festival
Zaha Hadid Architects wins contest for huge cultural district in Chinese resort
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been picked to build a new 409,000m² harbourside cultural district in the Chinese beach resort of Sanya
Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for curving skyscraper in China
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has runveiled designs for a 210m-tall office tower in Xi’an, the capital of China's central Shaanxi Province
Deep Sea Museum, Hainan
An open international contest is being held for a new Deep Sea Museum and Sports Centre in Sanya Yazhou Bay on the Chinese island province of Hainan [Deadline: 30 March 2023]
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Chinese architect Xu Tiantian on revitalising rural villages
Beijing architect Xu Tiantian talks about her work in southern China and this year’s Obel Award winner: a ‘net-zero’ concrete. PLUS win a copy of Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book
RSHP unveils designs for 45-storey Shenzhen office tower
RSHP has revealed its designs for a 45-storey office tower and mixed-use public podium already under construction in Shenzhen, south-east China