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Harbin Opera House

The sensual lines of a performing-arts complex express a city's bold bid for attention.

December 1, 2015

From the bridge connecting bustling downtown Harbin to bucolic Sun Island, the new Harbin Opera House comes into view, with its impressive sloping forms that suggest the snow-capped mountains found in this northern Chinese region.

First Look: Absolute City Centre

Residents begin to move into the first of MAD's two convention-busting apartment towers near Toronto.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

December 16, 2011

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Instead of the boxlike apartment and commercial towers in cities everywhere, architect Yansong Ma, principal of Beijing-based MAD, prefers structures that are “organic and soft.”

Hutong Bubble 32

Best Preservation Project

Clifford A. Pearson

May 1, 2010

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With all of the mega-projects rising in Beijing and radically transforming the city’s skyline, architects and planners can easily forget that important change can happen on the small scale as well.