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  • 2011-03-15
    MAD amongst the 10 most innovative companies in China

    Online magazine Fast Company has named MAD Architects one of the 10 most innovative companies in China.

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  • 2011-03-07
    Absolute Towers published in ICON

    ICON magazine published a special edition about MAD’s ongoing projects. Inside, Ma Yansong talks with Douglas Murphy about nearing the completion of the Absolute Towers, being the first Chinese architect to win a major international competition, and what it means to represent a generation.

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  • 2011-03-04
    Ma Yansong in Conversation with Massimiliano Fuksas

    At the invitation of the Italian Embassy in Beijing, Ma Yansong sat down with Massimiliano Fuksas at 751 D-park to discuss their work, the future of the city, and the similarities in working in Italy and China.

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  • 2011-01-09
    MAD Designs China Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin

    MAD Architects unveiled the design for a new museum in the city of Harbin for traditional Chinese wood sculpture. As the primary urban and industrial hub in northeastern China, Harbin is redefining itself as a regional center for the arts and culture.

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  • 2010-11-25
    Absolute Towers Top Sealed

    The Absolute Towers, 2 residential towers near Toronto designed by MAD, topped out last Friday at 170 meters, and establishes MAD’s bold new approach to residential design.

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  • 2010-10-22
    Super-star at Vitra Design Museum

    Ma Yansong gave a lecture on “MAD WORKS” at the Vitra Design Museum October 15th as part of the exhibition “Rising East, New Chinese Architecture”.

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  • 2010-10-14
    Ma Yansong Being the First Chinese Architect to Receive RIBA Fellowship

    The Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has awarded Ma Yansong, founder of MAD, as the first architect from China to receive a prestigious RIBA International Fellowship.

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  • 2010-07-21
    2010 MAD Travel Fellowship Results Announced

    MAD would like thank Vertu for the support and sponsor on MAD 2010 Travel Scholarship, we are please to announce the successful recipients for this year.

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  • 2010-04-01
    Feelings Are Facts by Olafur Eliasson & Ma Yansong

    Feelings Are Facts is the first collaboration between Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and leading Chinese architect, Ma Yansong.

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  • 2009-12-14
    Monster’s Footprint Stomps into Shenzhen

    The Monster’s Footprint, MAD’s design for the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, was unveiled in Shenzhen’s Citizen’s Square. Paved with pink EPDM material, the sunken footprints serve as a playground and gathering space for local residents.

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  • 2009-11-09
    MAD Featured in Heart-Made, Europalia

    Ma attended the opening ceremony and gave a lecture at CIVA in Brussel as part of the exhibition: Heart-Made, The Cutting-Edge of Chinese Contemporary Architecture. The Exhibition highlights the emergence of a Chinese architectural identity rather than a distinct style of Chinese architecture separates from major contemporary movements.

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  • 2009-09-02
    MAD Dinner with Toyo Ito

    On the night of September 24th, following a lecture at Tsinghua University, Toyo Ito joined a round-table dinner talk with young Chinese architects at the MAD office. The dinner discussion centered on Asian architecture and its practice.

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  • 2009-07-10
    2009 MAD Travel Fellowship Results Announcement

    MAD TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP 2009 announced finalists today from 237 applications of 69 architecture departments/schools in China.

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  • 2009-04-30
    Ma Yansong Lectures at MAK Vienna

    Ma Yansong will lecture at MAK, Vienna on May 19th 2009 as part of the MAK’s ‘Changing Architecture’ series, in which leading architects of today are invited to share their views.

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  • 2009-04-22
    Conrad Hotel Beijing Breaks Ground

    An official ceremony kicked off MAD’s Conrad Hotel groundbreaking today. The building appreciates slowness situated among the standard orthogonal buildings produced today.

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  • 2009-03-09
    Ma Yansong to Speak at Bauhaus Colloquium in April

    Ma Yansong will speak at the The 11th International Bauhaus Colloquium in April, 2009 in the German city of Weimar. The Bauhaus Colloquia is an internationally known forum for debate on architecture and urbanism and allows diverging ideas an output for discussion and research.

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  • 2009-01-12
    A+U Special Issue: MAD RABBIT

    MAD Rabbit, a special issue of A+U Magazine, was published in december’s issue. The issue featured a selection of MAD projects at different stages of realization, illustrating the progress MAD has made since the completion of our first built project, ‘Hongluo Clubhouse’, in 2005.

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  • 2008-12-31
    Ma Yansong Interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Ma Yansong spent the last hours of 2008 in “The Shop”, an art space beneath a shopping center in Beijing. He was participating in the “Post-Olympic Mini-marathon”, a series of interviews organized by Hans Ulrich Obrist.​

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  • 2008-12-18
    BIG INABA MAD MASS all In Korea

    MAD joined forces with BIG, INABA and MASS Studies to create four urban proposals for the city of Ansan, South Korea. The project, curated by Jeffrey Inaba, will be exhibited at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art.

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  • 2008-09-26
    MAD Dinner in New York

    To celebrate the launch of our first book, MAD Dinner, we embarked on a world-wide dinner tour: inviting architects and non-architects, critics and designers to dinner in cities around the globe.

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  • 2008-09-24
    Ma Yansong Speaks at Columbia University and AIA lecture

    On his recent visit to the U.S., Ma Yansong was invited to lecture at the GSAPP at Columbia University as well as the American Institute of Architects at the Center of Architecture (AIA), his topic for discussion being “MAD in China”.

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  • 2008-09-08
    MAD Superstar Revealed at 11th Venice Biennale

    ‘Superstar: A Mobile China Town’, will be featured in the exhibition ‘Uneternal City’ at the 11th Venice Biennale, curated by Aaron Betsky. The exhibition invites 12 young global architects to suggest interventions into an anonymous, suburban area of Rome, which will exploit and represent new spaces and urban fabrics of a Rome of the future.

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  • 2008-06-27
    Sinosteel International Plaza Breaks Gound

    The ground breaking ceremony for the Sino Steel International Plaza took place today at the No. 1 site of Xiangluo Bay, Tianjing. Designed by MAD, the 358-meter-high building will be the landmark of the new economic district being created in the city. It is planned for completion in 2012.

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  • 2008-06-18
    MAD Presented in “Dans la ville chinoise” exhibition in Paris

    The exhibition, titled ‘Dans la ville chinoise – Regards sure les mutations d’un Empire’ (Inside the Chinese City- A Look at the Mutations of an Empire), is being held by ‘Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine’, a museum in Paris devoted to architecture. ​

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  • 2008-04-24
    ICON Magazine Lists MAD as one of 20 Essential Young Architects

    MAD Office is featured in Issue 58 of Icon magazine, as one of 20 Essential Young Architects: “the cutting edge architects who are putting up skyscrapers in their 30s, or changing the way the profession works without building a thing”.

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