25 Best Architecture Firms in Beijing媒体报道与评论

China's capital city of Beijing is a sprawling metropolis housing over 20 million people. It is a place with a fascinating built history and consequential constructions such as the imperial Forbidden City and well-preserved sections of China's Great Wall.

Beijing is also home to a number of ambitious recent projects: structurally pioneering high-rise towers that include the OMA-designed CCTV Headquarters, a series of landmarks developed for the 2008 Olympics like the Bird's Nest Stadium and the 'Water Cube' housing the National Aquatics Centre, and quieter, but equally significant works such as the OPEN Architecture-designed Chapel of Sound.

In addition to notable built projects, Beijing boasts many of the world's most innovative architecture firms that practice both locally and internationally and which infuse contemporary projects of all scales with traditional eastern design values. Selected here are 25 firms with offices in Beijing that are setting new standards for Chinese architecture: