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Steelcase opens hybrid showroom and workplace in Hangzhou

Steelcase opens hybrid showroom and workplace in Hangzhou

Steelcase has unveiled one of its largest Asia Pacific showrooms in Hangzhou, merging workplace, brand experience and client engagement in a single flexible environment designed by M Moser.

The Catcher: a rural guesthouse framed by rice fields

The Catcher: a rural guesthouse framed by rice fields

Set among the rice fields near Shanghai’s Xinchang Ancient Town, The Catcher by TEAM_BLDG reworks two rural houses into a guesthouse that mediates quietly between architecture, landscape and time.

Simple Living Passage completes HAS design and research’s Simple World series in Hefei

Simple Living Passage completes HAS design and research’s Simple World series in Hefei

The Simple Living Passage marks the final project in the Simple World series by Jenchieh Hung + Kulthida Songkittipakdee of HAS design and research, transforming a retail walkway in Hefei into a reflective public space shaped by timber and movement.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: A global story dating back to 1977

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: A global story dating back to 1977

Director Farrokh Derakhshani joins STORIESINDESIGN podcast from Geneva to talk about the wide-ranging Aga Khan Award, which in 2025 awarded $1m to a series of winners with projects from China to Palestine.

AIM Architecture elevates HARMAY’s signature style at Hongqiao Airport

AIM Architecture elevates HARMAY’s signature style at Hongqiao Airport

With its latest outpost inside Shanghai’s bustling Hongqiao International Airport, HARMAY once again partners with AIM Architecture to reimagine retail through colour, movement and cultural expression.

“Transcendence, pluralism and progress”: Aga Khan Award for Architecture winners

“Transcendence, pluralism and progress”: Aga Khan Award for Architecture winners

The independent Master Jury of the 16th Award Cycle (2023-2025) has selected seven winning projects from China to Palestine.

A deeply meditative design by HAS design and research

A deeply meditative design by HAS design and research

Simple Design Archive is inspirational architecture that is designed for people and place, with serenity at its heart.

The retail centre designed to bring Chongqing’s streetscape indoors

The retail centre designed to bring Chongqing’s streetscape indoors

CapitaMall Skyview is a new shopping centre in Chongqing, China designed by CLOU architects and offering a layered interior that mirrors the city’s distinctive urban landscape.

There is NO SUCH THING as ordinary retail

There is NO SUCH THING as ordinary retail

Mountain Soil reimagines retail as an immersive, context-driven experience.

Brewing tradition with AIM Architecture

Brewing tradition with AIM Architecture

BREWTOWN in Shenzhen reimagines the brewing process, transforming it into a spatial experience that blends the elements of beer production with the modern energy of the city.

HAS design and research

HAS design and research

Practicing architecture and giving back to the next generation of students, Jenchieh Hung of HAS design and research is ensuring that the landscape of Thailand is in very good hands for the future.

Channelling Chinese phoenix at Shangri-La Nanshan

Channelling Chinese phoenix at Shangri-La Nanshan

Dreamily poetic in his approach to any project, Joe Cheng, director of CCD and UN Cultural Ambassador, has adopted the Fenghuang as the thematic touchstone for Shangri-La Nanshan.