ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   A sculptural pavilion that continues the rugged terrain of the surrounding area endeavors to become part of the network of public facilities that enlivens a coastal resort. Open on all sides, the undulating ground floor is sheltered by a framework su

ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   A bookstore has opened amid the remains of a short-lived university founded during World War II by academics who had fled Beijing and Tianjin during the Japanese occupation. In a loop that encloses a courtyard with straight lines, a volume extends al

ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   In one of the traditional neighborhoods that surround the Forbidden City, a residential complex has undergone renovation in accordance with a cautious strategy to curb gentrification. As in another siheyuan in the same alley, only about two-thirds of

ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   Nestled in a rugged landscape, this museum dedicated to the painters Xiao Feng and Song Ren is located at the foot of the Daci Mountain, in the Xihu district of Hangzhou. Built with concrete colored with black ink and processed on site, the building

ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   The Chinese firm ZAO/standardarchitecture – Zhang Ke, Zhang Mingming, Huang Tanyu, Ao Ikegami and Dai Haifei – has inserted a 30-square-meter hostel in one of Beijing’s hutongs, those alleys of the city’s tight central neighborhoods where low houses

ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   Massive walls of volcanic stone form a building firmly embedded in the hill and so hermetic as to open up only enough to capture views of the Himalayan mountains.

ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   Mirui Road follows the Niyang River along its sinuous course towards the south, enjoying the mountainous landscape of Tibet. Along its path it meets Daze village, chosen to be the entrance to this tourist attraction with a visitors’ center that has a

Like other architects of his generation, Zhang Ke found the key to channeling China’s contemporary aspirations in the mission of protecting ancestral heritage: a balance which – as the four works featured in Arquitectura Viva show – he has managed to

The sunny face that Olympic China presented to the world in the first decade of the 2000s had a cloudy reverse, and nothing illustrates the country’s contradictions better than the hutong, those alleys of the old part of Beijing, many of which have b

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