Yantai, China, is a coastal city across the Yellow Sea from the Korean peninsula, about 320 miles south of Beijing. There, a new tower by OPEN Architecture has opened its doors, delivering a new ...

The Navy’s acquisition strategy aims at open architectures in aviation programs. The U.S. military is using open architecture platforms on a greater scale, deploying interchangeable hardware and ...

OPEN Architecture has shared new images of its Pinghe Bibliotheater, a distinctly thalassic library and theater recently completed on the Shanghai campus of Qingpu Pinghe International School that, ...

OPEN Architecture has already proven itself skilled at turning imaginative renders into real buildings with its Chapel of Sound and is now doing so again with its upcoming Sun Tower. The project is ...

OPEN Architecture has made a habit of designing extraordinary projects, such as the rocky Chapel of Sound and sundial-like Sun Tower, and this is set to continue with its newly revealed Space Crystal.

During the reign of Ming-dynasty emperor Hongwu, in 1398, a series of smoke-signal watchtowers were constructed on the hills of China’s Shandong Peninsula to warn of pirates and raiders. The lookouts ...