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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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...