Russell Fortmeyer

In January, the Chinese social media company ByteDance sold a majority stake of its United States subsidiary, which operates the popular TikTok app, to a group of American investors to avoid an outright ban in this country. That may seem like a setback, but, at its new offices in central Shenzhen, designed by Ennead Architects, the company’s spectacular growth is on full display.

ProjectsBuildings by TypeK-12 School Design Malibu High School by Koning Eizenberg Architecture and NAC Architecture. Situated just above the Pacific Coast Highway near Zuma Beach, Malibu High School first opened in 1992 as part of Los Angeles County’s Santa Monica-Malibu Unified District.

The book’s lengthy discussion of the responses from architects to the scourge of tuberculosis in 19th-century Europe certainly evokes the Covid era in the way designers speculated in line with emerging medical understanding.