Continuing our review of 2019, Benedict Hobson picks out 10 diverse architecture projects from across China, including a collection of wooden huts on a remote mountainside and one of the largest airports in the world.

UCCA Dune Art Museum, Qinhuangdao, by Open Architecture
The UCCA Dune Art Museum by Beijing architecture studio Open Architecture was built under a dune on a beach in the coastal city of Qinhuangdao.
The museum comprises a network of 10 subterranean galleries and a cafe, which are interlinked beneath the sand and intended to evoke the form of caves.
Open Architecture designed the UCCA Dune Art Museum out of a desire to save the natural ecology of the site. The delicate ecosystem of the dune took thousands of years to form, yet the client had planned to destroy it to clear space for the museum. The building's subterranean design means that much of the natural landscape will be preserved. See more of UCCA Dune Art Museum ?

Exploratorium, Tianjin, by Bernard Tschumi Architects
This museum by Bernard Tschumi Architects has giant industrial chimney-shaped exhibition spaces that protrude from its perforated copper-coloured exterior.
Located in Tianjin, the museum showcases the port city's industrial past and houses exhibits in a serious of huge conical volumes. The largest of these has a triple-height lobby with a large spiralling ramp running up the inside of the space.
On the outside, the building is clad with copper-coloured perforated aluminium panels punct...