“If a client wants a specific style, it's kind of boring to us” says Open Architecture

Open Architecture has risen quickly to become one of China‘s most influential studios and is now set to design a major exhibition in Sydney. In this interview, married founders Huang Wenjing and Li Hu explain their unusual approach. Since establishing its Beijing office in 2008, Open Architecture has developed a reputation for experimental buildings that […]

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Over 100 architecture, interiors and design projects shortlisted for Dezeen Awards China 2025

Dezeen has announced the shortlisted projects for this year’s Dezeen Awards China, which include a seaside pavilion on the remote island of Chaishan and a cultural centre sheltered by sloping roofs in Guangzhou. In total, 120 projects by studios from 30 different cities are in the running to win awards in 23 categories spanning architecture, […]

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James Grayley Architecture finishes Suffolk cottage extension with “hairy shingle exterior”

London studio James Grayley Architecture has used red bricks, oak shingles and terracotta floors to give a rustic character to its extension of Church Cottage, an old farmhouse in Suffolk, UK. Located near the town of Eye, the existing Grade II-listed dwelling was originally built as two 18th-century labourers’ dwellings, which were then conjoined in […]

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Medium consolidates and unifies sprawling 1950s home in Surrey

British architecture studio Medium has completed its renovation of Hearth House, a 1950s country home in Surrey, bringing clarity to a series of hotchpotch extensions. Nestled in the Surrey Hills National Landscape, the original two-storey pitched home had been gradually expanded with a cluster of single-storey rectilinear blocks, which suffered from poor thermal performance and […]

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