Shortlisted for rebirth project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020, MAD has overhauled a vacant courtyard house in an ancient hutong in Beijing, adding two bubble-like sculptures. Hutong Bubble 218 ...

The consequence is that low-lying houses and hutongs face destruction to accommodate the high-rises needed to house so many people, Zhang said. "It's coming," said Mike Meyer, a three-year ...

Normally when you walk through a gate in a hutong in Beijing, you have a courtyard with one big house and then smaller houses on the side, but some gates on this one lead to totally different ...

The hutongs not only take you back in time ... we participate in a tea ceremony at the Hanmu Chali traditional tea house. An English-speaking guide talks us through the ceremony and teaches ...

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STAY This isn’t the Beijing of gleaming towers and high-speed gloss. Mandarin Oriental Qianmen sits tucked inside one of the city’s oldest hutongs – a maze of narrow alleys, centuries-old ...

How many hutongs are there in Beijing? Old local residents have a saying: "There are 360 large hutongs and as many small hutongs as there are hairs on an ox." Laid out in a chessboard pattern ...

MAD has overhauled a vacant courtyard house in an ancient hutong in Beijing, adding two bubble-like sculptures. Hutong Bubble 218 is a renovation project, which involved redesigning a traditional ...