The Architectural Review N° 1425 (2015)

6 Beijing, China
Archstudio

8 Outrage
‘The cruel hukou system must stop’
The registration system victimizes migrants from rural areas, writes Alan Hudson

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23 Can Design Week save the hutongs?
Beijing Design Week shines a light on the marginalized hutong population of Dashilar, but in so doing feeds the gentrification machine, writes Manon Molland

30 Typology Factories
Commodities flowed from them, along with money for their owners – but the factory also produced new ways of living, of thinking, and of designing, writes Tom Wilkinson.

40 Skill Cladding
Large-format units in combination with the latest energy – controlling technology is revolutionizing contemporary cladding, writes Felix Mara

46 China
Terrible buildings blight this country, but design is on the agenda as a new generation of Chinese architects comes home, writes this issue’s AR guest editor Austin Williams

56 ‘This in no Chinese copycat’
Vector Architects’ Seashore Library is a subtle Modernist intervention from the next generation of Chinese architects, writes Austin Williams

66 Mad Scene
Bursting forth from its wetland setting, MAD’S incongruous Harbin Opera House and urban park belie the exquisite spaces within, writes Manon Mollard

75 Exploring al
The self-taught architects is better know for his art, but Ai Weiwei’s architectural studio has developed a restrained style that speaks to the fundamentals – form, structure, proportion and light, writes Kate Goodwin

84 Broad Strokes
Like its namesake’s Chinese paintings, Original Design Office’s Fan Zeng Art Museum is a wash of greys, writes Xiangning Li

93 Country Life
Wencun Village regeneration project, designed by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu’s Amateur Architecture Studio, proposes an alternative approach to Chinese rural housing and construction
Words by Yingping Dong Photograps by Iwan Baan

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