Beijing creates new environmental police force to crack down on smog
Notoriously smoggy Beijing has created a new police force specifically to crack down on air pollution. The environmental...
Spectacular new shipping container museum nestles near China's Great Wall
Nestled near China's famous Great Wall rests a new cultural museum made with shipping containers. The Zhao Hua...
China's crazy smog-sucking vacuum tower might actually be working
Studio Roosegaarde's smog-sucking vacuum tower may actually be cleaning up the air in China. The Smog Free Tower...
Pollution in China prompts Beijing exodus
In Beijing, air pollution is so severe that the Chinese government has declared many a public health alert in recent...
Beautiful wooden lattice bathes the French School of Beijing in natural light
[gallery_extend] The campus is located on a site named after orchards that used to dominate the area....
MAD Architects reveals designs for a glowing China Philharmonic Hall in Beijing
[gallery_extend] Located at the south side of the Workers Stadium East Gate in Beijing’s Central Business...
Romantic Treehouse huts are tucked away in Beijing’s tranquil mountains
[gallery_extend] Wee Studio’s Treehouse structures aren’t treehouses in the strict sense of the...
Daan Roosegaarde's Smog Free Project kicks off 5-city tour of China
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Tower is now open to the public in Beijing, the first of five Chinese...
INHABITAT INTERVIEW: 7 Questions with Architect Steven Holl
[gallery_extend] INHABITAT: How would you describe your signature style? As we all know, we're in the...
Penda unveils interlocked double-helix bridge for the Beijing Winter Olympics
[gallery_extend] The architecture studio, based in Beijing and Vienna, proposed this design as part...
World’s first Rose Museum in Beijing is wrapped in a beautiful perforated facade
[gallery_extend] Set on a 100-hectare rose park that exhibited over 2,000 species of roses for the convention,...
Beijing is sinking four inches every year
Beijing's in trouble. Examining satellite images and data collected by sensors, scientists from China, the UK,...
Daan Roosegaarde's smog-sucking tower will clean the skies of China
It’s difficult to determine whether Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde hates smog, or loves it. The artist garnered...
Beautiful prismatic glass panels envelop SOM's Beijing Greenland Center
[gallery_extend] The 260-meter tower is enveloped in curtain walls made of glass panels arranged in...
China puts the brakes on construction of 200 coal-fired power plants
Chinese energy officials are putting the brakes on plans for new coal-fired power plants, in yet another attempt...
