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Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum not only for presenting Asian phenomena and their characteristics to the world, but also for understanding diversity and multiculturalism within Asia from a global perspective. This issue reveals the development of contemporary Chinese architecture and features five essays and 11 projects that elaborate this perspective. The five essays elaborate the impact of architecture on Chinese life, the Local and the multiplicity of Chinese architecture, and the trend in contemporary Chinese architecture, etc. The 11 projects, accompanied with full-colour photos and text descriptions, concentrate on how the contemporary Chinese architectures integrate into and change people's lives, combine with environmental protection concept, highlight the traditional Chinese culture, and modernise old buildings. SELLING POINTS: . This issue of Architecture Asia reveals the development of contemporary Chinese architecture . Featuring five essays and eleven projects that elaborate this perspective 170 colour, 70 b/w illustrations

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