Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, Gensler: Shanghai’s most anticipated architectural marvel – launched last year after breaking ground in 2008 – tops out at 632 metres, making it the city’s tallest tower and second in the world, at least for now. It’s also been garlanded for its green initiatives. Its asymmetrical, spiralling profile helps it withstand typhoon winds

去年，“中国”怪异“建筑的终结预示着大西洋的一个故事。该文本概述了执政党最高层发出的警告，即使是在二三线城市，那种华而不实、挑衅性和明显的原始设计也将不再被批准建设。

这将随着像上海Neri这样的国际化实践的出现而动摇。

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政府的指令可能会保护你的设计敏感性，但它不会限制建筑-在目前正在建造的10座世界最高建筑中，有7座是由该国负责的。尽管最雄心勃勃的发展项目即将取得成果，但许多项目将在南京、武汉等二线城市，就像天津、深圳和广州这样的一线巨擘一样。

明年，南京将由斯特凡诺·博里(Stefano Boeri)拥有自己的垂直森林，这是一座精心种植的混合用途建筑群，就像建筑师在意大利已经建造的那样。SOM将在贵阳开设其球状表演艺术中心，这是一个沉闷的工业城市，希望提升其建筑形象。

看着中国城市景观的成熟进入下一个十年，这将是非常有趣的-以及这位名字恰当的疯子是否会被迫缓和其对滑稽、曲线美景观的偏好。在目前这一批已完成的项目中，人们已经能感觉到一种结局。

Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, Gensler: The tower uses wind turbines, collects rainwater and has a double-glass skin for cooling and ventilation – allowing it to cut thousands of tonnes from its carbon footprint. And, like a vertical city, it accommodates sky lobbies at multiple levels that act as natural refuges for workers in the upper floors. For this, it was allowed to boast the first LEED Platinum rating among super-tall towers

Eco-Tech Island Exhibition Center, Nanjing, NBBJ: Being a college town, some of Nanjing’s most exciting architecture pops up on campus. Now the Yangtze River city has developed a whole new campus: an offshore incubator for technology and environmental science

Eco-Tech Island Exhibition Center, Nanjing, NBBJ: At the heart of Eco-Tech Island is this multi-peaked exhibition hall, echoing the nearby Zhong and Stone mountains. Each of the eight peaks, lined in lipstick-red tile, has an oculus or ‘light cannon’, driving natural light deep into the interior but also shading it from solar heat

Chengdu Museum, Chengdu, Sutherland Hussey Harris: Sichuan’s capital is low and organised – less chaotic than China’s older, first-tier cities. So even at the city’s central core, its natural-history museum had more space to spread out. It has a dazzling, faceted skin of copper alloy, a material mined in the region, that lifts up in places like a skirt to expose banks of glazing, connecting the indoors with the sprawling city square opposite

Chengdu Museum, Chengdu, Sutherland Hussey Harris: A gaping portal at the centre of the building allows through traffic and sightlines, and even provides space for the local street market. Inside, galleries dressed in warm natural wood offer a calm retreat

Chengdu Museum, Chengdu, Sutherland Hussey Harris: Responding to the region’s reputation for catastrophic earthquakes, the building sits on a deep box foundation, making it capable of withstanding quakes up to eight on the Richter Scale

Hongkou Soho, Shanghai, Kengo Kuma: Kengo Kuma would like his Shanghai office tower to contrast with the ‘hard’ buildings we’re used to. For this property, north of the Bund riverfront, he’s designed an overlay of 18mm aluminium mesh, pleated like a Gucci skirt and flaring out at the bottom to expose a glazed façade

Hongkou Soho, Shanghai, Kengo Kuma: Inside, there is barely a solid expanse of wall, as the pleated aluminium continues, alternating with waves of stone that cascade over the workspaces – many of which are open for public hot-desking. Bathed in light and parcelled only by interior glass, the undulating spaces have a moody atmosphere that changes depending on the time of day

HUB Performance Exhibition Center, Shanghai, Neri & Hu: Hongqiao, a suburb of 25,000 expats and exponentially more locals, is taking a great leap forward with new cultural and commercial district to complement its massive airport and rail hub. This performance centre by architect Ben Wood is the banner project at its centre. Yet elegant interiors by marquee designers Neri & Hu soften the industrial edges

HUB Performance Exhibition Center, Shanghai, Neri & Hu: Obsessed with history and tradition, the firm has layered cool grey local sandstone in striations around a five-storey atrium, and built out interior balconies like jagged rock face. Behind, bridges and pathways lead to private meeting spaces dressed in slick wood panelling, brassy chainmail and Ming-blue tiles hand-painted with a pictorial history of the neighbourhood. But most noticeable is the soaring canopy of wood thatch across the vaulted ceiling

HUB Performance Exhibition Center, Shanghai, Neri & Hu: The designers deftly bring warmth and intimacy to the cavernous three-storey ‘treasure box’ theatre with floating bamboo-screen walls. They reference the bamboo slips used in ancient China to record historical events

Shaolin Flying Monks Theatre, Henan Province, Mailitis Architects: With slabs of stone from a local quarry, slats of laser-cut steel and some hocus-pocus wind technology, a small Latvian firm has given the Shaolin monks a platform for practicing their traditional levitation techniques

Shaolin Flying Monks Theatre, Henan Province, Mailitis Architects: Located in the Songshan Mountains, at the centre of the country halfway between Shanghai and Beijing, the stepped theatre encircles a wind tunnel that rises up through the centre in the shape of a lotus flower. The silhouettes echo the natural landscape

Shaolin Flying Monks Theatre, Henan Province, Mailitis Architects: This region is considered the birthplace of Zen Buddhism and kung-fu, and the monks incorporate those histories into monthly performances here. They also teach ‘flying’ classes to visitors and the community

Greenland Center, Beijing, SOM: In the office-space gold rush, millions of nondescript square metres have materialised. But the 25-year-old real estate conglomerate Greenland doesn’t go for nondescript; its office towers are among the country’s tallest, most experimental and, appropriately, greenest

Greenland Center, Beijing, SOM: This one, in an expanding business district halfway to the international airport, has won awards for its envelope of undulating trapezoidal glass modules, which self-shade for better temperature control. The glass also reflects natural light around the plaza, creating movement and energy. A centralised digital network and water-cooling systems will help reduce energy consumption by some 30 per cent

Micr-O, Hangzhou, Superimpose: As Hangzhou sprawls to nearly 10 million people and farming scandals proliferate in the once-rural outskirts, the mission of the Sun Commune – to raise awareness of sustainable farming and healthy living – becomes more crucial. The commune commissioned this educational pavilion to introduce young city-dwellers to the Tai Yang Valley, west of town, where 100 farming families live among the bamboo and rice fields. Photography: Marc Goodwin

Micr-O, Hangzhou, Superimpose: The structure is like a reverse Big Top. The central circle, exposed to the elements, is a stage for events, lectures and organic-farming workshops for local villagers. Photography: Marc Goodwin

H Queen’s, Hong Kong, CL3: Hong Kong’s art scene has grown up recently, and H Queen’s is a physical manifestation of that. The new 24-storey laminated-glass building near Central Market is pitched as a ‘vertical gallery’, housing a mix of retail, restaurants and, notably, galleries. Though it’s still months from opening, some big, international names have already confirmed tenancy: David Zwirner, Pace and Pearl Lam included

H Queen’s, Hong Kong, CL3: They’ll benefit from the building’s integrated gondola system, big enough to haul massive artworks into each space. A glass lift, likened to an ‘art gallery sky arcade’, creates an interactive experience between visitors and the upper galleries, which themselves take up more floor area than any other art hub in Central

Chao, Beijing, Smlwrld: Few designers have picked up on the Western penchant for boutique hub-hotels – lodging that’s as much neighbourhood meeting-place as tourist refuge. Borrowing from the Brooklyn vernacular, Melbourne-based Smlwrld crafted a subtle and spacious contemporary space with none of the flash found in the local Hyatts and Shangri-Las

Chao hotel, Beijing, Smlwrld: The studio has ‘curated’ boutiquey lounges and dining rooms, a woody teahouse, library and a long, minimalist wood bar. The red-velvet cinema is bang on trend

Chao, Beijing, Smlwrld: Credit to the raw concrete, slate and soothing, neutral reclaimed-timber that make millennials feel at home while Sanlitun rages outside

Meeting Someone café, Beijing, Liu Xiaotao: As Beijing gravitates away from speed-dining, new restaurants have opened up that emphasise atmosphere over efficiency. Meeting Someone, in the Dashilar design district, is one such place, an old hutong shop remodelled by local architect Joyce Liu. She’s encased a deep, windowed tearoom in polished concrete, while a floating perforated-steel staircase climbs to a dining room behind chainmail curtains

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