Christina Yao

Architecture studio BVN has retrofitted the 1970s brutalist Sirius building in Sydney , Australia, and extended it with a series of copper-clad pods.

Architecture studio BVN has retrofitted the 1970s brutalist Sirius building in Sydney , Australia, and extended it with a series of copper-clad pods. More

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has completed a new hotel in Shanghai that invites nature back into the urban city through a series of garden elements.

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has completed a hotel in Shanghai alongside the New Bund Performing Arts Centre , which was also designed by the studio.

Architecture studio Open Architecture has completed the 50-metre-tall Sun Tower, which has a conical concrete form designed to follow the path of the sun, in Yantai, northeast China.

Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed the 50-metre-tall Sun Tower, which has a conical concrete form designed to follow the path of the sun, in Yantai, northeast China

Architecture studio Breathe has created a house-within-a-house for the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne to draw attention to the potential of small homes.

The most impressive buildings completed in China this year include a one-kilometre-long museum and a conical sea-side viewing tower.