Hutongs in the area took on the names of the various granaries, names that have stuck to this day. Then there's Xishiku (Western General Warehouse) Alley off Xi' anmennei Street, once called Houku ...

I wanted to ask “whom was the café built for?” On the way from Wudaoying Hutong to Fangjia Hutong, we passed by Jianchang Hutong, a residential area in the process of “tengtui 腾退” (vacate from ...

and famous writers such as Lu Xun would often come to the area; now Soloist Coffee is a nice place to view the lane from. It has a great balcony overlooking the hutong. The hutong has not been ...

MAD has overhauled a vacant courtyard house in an ancient hutong in Beijing, adding two bubble-like sculptures. Hutong Bubble 218 is a renovation project, which involved redesigning a traditional ...

Baochao Hutong Mirror Yard by DAGA Architects has been ... The glass mirrors of the ground and walls enlarge the area of the courtyard visually. When the owner steps into the door, she will ...