Hengqin Culture & Art Complex: Atelier Apeiron Architects

“The Hengqin Cultural Center is big. It looks big, it feels big, and it is big. At almost a hundred and fifty thousand gross square meters, it is one of many recent buildings that embody China’s ambition to be not only the world’s largest economy, but also a place that does sports, entertainment, and culture in a big way. Standing in the middle of a city that was until less than two decades ago seabed and representing itself in abstractions of form, material, and structure that emphasize bo...