2024-11-23T06:00:10-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150429408/mad-updates-construction-progress-on-hainan-science-museum-before-2025-debut Josh Niland 2024-05-28T16:56:00-04:00 >2024-06-04T12:31:15-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f4/f4fbd6a8e627b3e1548a233059aa6676.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/madarchitects" target="_blank">Ma Yansong/MAD Architects</a> has posted a construction update for the Hainan Science Museum in China ahead of its anticipated 2025 opening. The vertically spiraling design works to combat the phenomenon of museum fatigue, appearing as though an emerging cloud bank while distributing spaces efficiently across five floors and a total of 46,530 square meters (500,800 square feet).</p> <p>This will form a key part of the site's cultural component, contrasting the many sports stadium designs that surround it in coastal Haikou National Wetland Park. It mirrors MAD's previous efforts on the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150249151/mad-s-wormhole-library-tops-out" target="_blank">Wormhole Library</a> located nearby on Haikou Bay. Another eye-catching design, the firm's ripped-facade One River North development in Denver (MAD's second completed residential project in the U.S.), also passed a <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150419231/facade-installation-underway-on-mad-architects-first-north-american-residential-rental-tower" target="_blank">major milestone</a> recently as it nears its realization.&nbsp;</p> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C7hYghCp7f9/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> View this post on Instagram </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C7hYghCp7f9/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by MAD Architects (@madarchitects)</a><br>