MAD Just Opened a 46,000 Sqm Silver Cloud Museum in China - Yanko Design

MAD Just Opened a 46,000 sqm Silver Cloud Museum in China - Yanko Design

When we covered the Hainan Science Museum back in 2024, it was still a promise on renderings. The images showed a billowing silver form rising above a tropical wetland, and the honest reaction was: is this actually going to get built? It looked too cinematic, too untethered from the logic of real construction. It’s open now. And it looks almost exactly like the renders promised. The museum sits on the edge of Wuyuan River National Wetland Park o…

Floating column-free science museum opens in Hainan - Global Construction Review

The Hainan Science Museum has opened in Haikou, the capital of China’s southern Hainan Province. Inspired by cloud formations and the local monsoon rain forests, the 46,528-sq-m structure on the edge of Wuyuan River National Wetland Park has a reflective silver fiber-reinforced polymer façade. Architect MAD designed it to look like it’s floating above water and the public plaza below. Its spiralling structure is carried by three concrete core…

MAD Architects Completes Hainan Science Museum in Haikou

MAD Architects has opened the Hainan Science Museum in Haikou. Featuring a column-free spiral and a shimmering silver shell, Ma Yansong’s latest project redefined museum architecture through fluid, community-centric design on the edge of Wuyuan River National Wetland Park.