Clifford Pearson

ProjectsBuildings by TypeLandscape ArchitecturePark & Public Space Design Scalloped steps spanning the river evoke the scales of a dragon; the Chinese symbol is emblematic of the Longgang (“Dragon’s post”) District. Architects & Firms There be dragons—657 of them in one area alone, plus nine emerging from a stone wall.

ExclusivesDesign VanguardFirm Profiles Bangjja Yugi Museum Architects & Firms It started with a stool. Made of wood and steel for an old brewery converted into a cultural venue in Mungyeong, South Korea, it was the first thing Heechan Park designed after establishing Studio Heech in Seoul in 2018. Park let the renovated 1944 structure inform the seat’s materiality and its simple construction, “so the furniture is a record of the building itself,” says the architect.

Battered by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes, the city of Guangzhou in southern China challenges architects working there to create buildings that are both strong and flexible. For the headquarters of a new cloud technology company established by Sany, a construction equipment manufacturer, SOM designed a two-tower complex that exploits the efficiencies of a steel diagrid structure and engages its urban context with an open podium hovering above a shaded public plaza.