Author Archives: Adam Mayer
An Experience in Contrasts: Redevelopment in Beijing’s Historic Qianmen Neighborhood
Before and After Photos of ‘Quanjude’, a famous Peking Duck Establishment in Qianmen Since 1864 It is a familiar narrativeView full post »
MTR Island Line Extension Set to Change Hong Kong’s Western District
Blue Dot = Current Western Extent of MTR Hong Kong Island Line (Sheung Wan) Red Dot = Terminus of Island Line Western Extension ToView full post »
China World’s Largest Wind Energy Market
Infographic Courtesy of Statista Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click toView full post »
Organic Farming in China: Chengdu’s Anlong Village
With the ongoing spate of food safety scandals, Chinese consumers are rightly weary of the source and quality of their food.View full post »
Lessard Design Wins Competition For Nanjing Technology Community
Lessard Design, an American architecture firm based out of the Washington D.C. area, recently shared with us some images of theirView full post »
China’s Urbanites Take to the Internet in Droves
The good people over at Statista provided us with yet another excellent China infographic, this time about the country’s huge onlineView full post »
Shenzhen Surging: Yabao Hi-Tech Park by 10 Design
Shenzhen, China’s experimental Special Economic Zone, is often derided for its lack of history and culture. This is in no small partView full post »
Building a Greener Capital
Prosper Center, Beijing’s First LEED Gold Certified Building The following is a guest post by Daniel Garst, a Beijing-based AmericanView full post »
1.3 Billion: A Demographic Reminder
Every now and again, I like to take a step back and refocus on China demographics to bring to light the sheer scale of the country inView full post »
Politicizing the Pritzker
Ningbo History Museum by architect Wang Shu Last month, this year’s Pritzker Prize (architecture’s highest honor) was awardedView full post »
View from the Ground in the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone
New development outside Jiangyou, Sichuan Province The following post is an adaptation of a comment I made on my good friend andView full post »
An Architect’s Guide to Working in China
A few months ago I read a piece from Bloomberg discussing Frank Gehry’s decision to ‘turn to Asia for architecture projects asView full post »