BEIJING STYLE: The preservation of famous courtyard houses has become a growing public concern amid the building boom in the Chinese capital Every month Beijing seems spiffier, hipper and more similar ...

BEIJING has launched a massive project to preserve its typical old-style houses that cover an area of more than two million square metres, a senior city official said on Friday.

"Until 1949, Beijing was a complete old city, a courtyard city untouched by World War II - a typical Oriental city, with the charms of Paris, Rome, and Venice," says Xu Yong, owner of Hutong Tours ...

In Beijing, China, neighborhoods of traditional homes called “siheyuan” cluster together around their characteristic individual courtyards. The outdoor spaces are enclosed by the rooms of the ...

Architect Frederic Schnee has modernised and extended a traditional house in Beijing by moving the courtyard onto the first floor so a shop can be accommodated at street level.

Foreigners will be allowed to buy courtyard homes in Beijing in the hope they can help save part of the capital's cultural heritage. The city government would give up ownership of about 4,000 ...

“We want[ed] to build a courtyard house in the sky,” says Veronica Chou, the Hong Kong textile heiress, as she waves her manicured hands around her spacious Beijing penthouse.

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has turned a courtyard house in Beijing into a flagship store for fragrance brand ToSummer with exposed wooden roof trusses and columns. Located within a 500-square ...

BEIJING - For 50 of her 70 years, Wang Guizhen has lived in a tiny brick house along a hutong, one of the alleys in the maze-like gray-walled residential areas ...

The first ever official directory of siheyuan – the traditional courtyard homes of Beijing – is expected to be published by the end of this year. Nearly 1,000 siheyuan have been logged, with ...