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Quzhou Stadium.

MAD Architects Creates a Volcano-Inspired Stadium in China

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Clifford A. Pearson
August 1, 2022
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The firm embeds a stadium in an otherworldly landscape in China’s Zhejiang Province.
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Jiaxing Train Station.

MAD Architects Create a "Station in a Forest" for a City in the Yangtze River Delta

Jacob Dreyer
July 13, 2022
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In Jiaxing, Ma Yansong has designed a futuristic train station that is also a living tribute to Chinese Communist Party history.
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Courtyard Kindergarten Beijing

Courtyard Kindergarten by MAD Architects

Beijing
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Kara Mavros
February 11, 2020
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In Beijing, a kindergarten embraces an existing 18th-century courtyard, providing children with a surprising space to play.


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Lucas Museum

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Breaks Ground in Los Angeles

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Justin Chan
March 15, 2018
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The 290,000-square-foot museum designed by Ma Yansong will join several existing cultural institutions in Exposition Park.


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Chaoyang Park Plaza

Chaoyang Park Plaza by MAD Architects

Beijing
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Alex Klimoski
January 11, 2018
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A 10-building complex in Beijing draws inspiration from traditional Chinese landscape paintings.


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Huangshan Mountain Village

Huangshan Mountain Village by MAD Architects

Huangshan, China
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Alex Klimoski
October 1, 2017
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A large-scale residential complex in a mountain region and UNESCO Heritage Site 250 miles southwest of Shanghai steers clear of the typical urban high-rise.


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Harbin Opera House

Harbin Opera House

The sensual lines of a performing-arts complex express a city's bold bid for attention.
Alexandra A. Seno
December 1, 2015
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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.
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First Look: Absolute City Centre

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


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Hutong Bubble 32

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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.


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