Amid a museum boom, Open Architecture’s understated theaters and galleries offer a welcome dose of subtlety in a country with skylines often blighted by bold statements.

Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed The Chapel of Sound, a monolithic open-air concert hall in a valley next to the ruins of the Great Wall of China outside Beijing.

Open Architecture is building a concert hall in a valley north of Beijing, designed to look "as if a strange and prehistoric boulder had fallen there long ago". The Beijing-based studio looked to ...