The Eight tenths Garden is an art museum dedicated to arts and crafts, which can also be used as a venue for the conference in the idle hours. A fashionable enamel brand founded by the client’s family and settled in the museum gave the rebirth to old technology and traditions, which also reveals the spirit of Shanghai – life based, delicate and restrained.

The National Taichung Theater is a complex comprising three theatres, whose curved concrete surface is entirely built using the truss-wall construction method that is adopted for the first time in the world. Its interiors feature extraordinary organic forms after the architects stepped away from linear geometry to conduct an unprecedented test of building rules lasting for years.

Global projects also include the IJhal new wing of Central Station in Amsterdam, which connects to the IJ River and creates routes with a precise formal connection for travellers; and the C Penthouse in Antwerp, also organized along a river, whose unfinished and recycled materials is a reference to the Arte Povera movement.

In Creative Talents 100+, we introduce four young designers and architects born after 1980, including Weng Xinyu, Liu Yang, Cheng Yanchun and specially Cui Shu, with his interior design for the office of Blue Moon Film appeared on the cover of this issue, in which he formed a contrasting boundary between old and new and fully retained the original structure of an dilapidated building.