Ma Yansong

Between science fiction and James Bond

Panels of white aluminum cover an enormous roof which evokes associations with a tent or a large seashell: MAD Architects have designed an architecturally top-class congress centre.

Roof sculpture at a ski resort

In Yabuli, a ski resort in northern China, Ma Yansong’s MAD Architects studio have completed an architecturally top-class congress centre. The client is the China Entrepreneurs Forum, which wants to establish the location as a meeting point for the business elite.

MAD Architects’ first project in the USA organises housing typologies into a little village on top of a shopping zone.

Ma Yansong, founder and principal partner of MAD, describes the changes from their virtual working routine during quarantine to a slowly post-lockdown renormalisation at their office in Beijing.

Yiwu Grand Theater by MAD Architects seems to float on Dongyang River thanks to its look of a traditional Chinese junk and its glass sails.

MAD Architects has restored Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel for the 2018 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale.

In one of China’s most beautiful mountain landscapes, MAD Architects have created ten unusual residential mounds of concrete and glass.

Thanks to the light and airy effect of its translucent white skin, the new residence of the China Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing is sure to magnetise visitors, especially when it takes on a particularly shimmery appearance at night.

For many years the siblings Kentaro und Tamaki Nara operated a popular kindergarten from their own home until it simply became too small for the purpose. When that happened they had the two-storey building transformed into a nursery school that they wanted to be modern on the one hand but seem like a home away from home for the children on the other.