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MCM Group Undertakes Singapore’s Sentosa Island Design Survey

May 17, 2018, Beijing, China. MCM Group International’s (MCM Group) Beijing Branch visited Singapore’s Sentosa Island, a man-made island built for fun and recreation. Universal Studios Singapore, Wings of Time and Sentosa Merlion highlight the teams design survey MCM...

MCM Cares Helps Fund Special Needs Children Programs

March 30 2018, Beijing, China. MCM Group International’s (MCM Group) philanthropic endeavor, MCM Cares, visited the Children’s Hope Home in Beijing, China, engaging with and sending love to the special needs children. Ms. Jiang Yan, the head of Children’s Hope Home,...

MCM Group Presents at the China Attractions Expo (CAE) in Beijing

February 1, 2018, Beijing, China. MCM Group International (MCM Group) invites you to visit their booth at the China Attractions Expo (CAE) in Beijing, China, at the National Convention Center from March 17 to March 19. Annually led by China Association of Amusement...

MCM Cares: Beijing Qizhi School – Let Love Be Always With Us

September 27, 2017, Beijing, PRC. Michael Mitchell, CEO of MCM Group International, together with the delegation of his staff, visited Beijing Qizhi Rehabilitation Center on September 27, 2017, bringing donations and care. Qizhi School Principal GAO Maocheng and MCM...

Congratulations on ZRTG China HHN City · Haishang Show Opening

July 24, 2017, Beijing, PRC. Zhejiang Radio & TV Group (ZRTG) China HHN City Phase I - “Haishang Show” celebrated its grand opening recently. MCM Group International delivered warm congratulations to China HHN City. MCM provided substantial design work for HHN City...

Lifestyles in Future Cities Deserve More Attention than Freestyle

July 15, 2017, Beijing, PRC. Hosted by Suqian People’s Government and co-organized by Suqian Planning Bureau, China Building Center (CBC) and Urban·Environment·Design Magzine (UED), the “Design for Suqian” & “Natian Cup” Sustainable Design International Competition &...

MCM Cares: Dream Tree Charity Show

June 03, 2017, Beijing, PRC. MCM Cares-We are dedicated to creating better childhood for children all along. MCM Group International attended the 3rd Dream Three Charity Show held in Love Hope (Beijing) Cultural Development Center on June 3, 2017. MCM also contributed...

Tianjin Design Week: “The Future is Now ”

Michael Mitchell, CEO of MCM Group International, was invited to attend the opening ceremony of “The Future Is Now” Tianjin Design Week and delivered the keynote speech of "Digital Brings Changes to Entertainment Experience" on May 13, 2017.     May 13,...

MCM Forms Strategic Partnership with Pan-China Group

February 20, 2017, Beijing, PRC. MCM Group International entered into strategic partnership with Pan-China Group and its No. 1 Construction Company on February 20, 2017. MCM Group CEO Michael Michelle, MCM China Region General Manager ZHANG Yue, Deputy General Manager...

Bring the Best to Countryside Following No. 1 Central Document

January 19, 2017, Beijing, PRC. After the Spring Festival, the first important matter in the New Year will be the No. 1 Central Policy Document which addresses the “Three Rural Issues”. The document points out that the principal contradiction in the agricultural...

Interview: Theme Parks with Michael Mitchell

  In your opinion, what makes a successful theme park? What should be taken into consideration in design work? Michael Mitchell: The first consideration in planning a theme park is understanding the purpose and objectives of the client. Theme parks are built to...

MCM Group Keynotes Singularity Think Tank Agricultural Seminar

Francesco Matinata, Senior Designer of MCM Group China, attended the Singularity Think Tank Agricultural Seminar to make a presentation on MCM’s work in Agricultural Tourism. Mr. Matinata pointed out that, “traditional Chinese residential real estate is facing an...

MCM Opens Garfield World!

Garfield World which is licensed and designed by MCM Group opens in Qingdao Vanke Center on November 8th. Garfield World is one of MCM’s Licensed children’s programs  In 2015, MCM Group received the exclusive licensing rights to open Garfield Children Centers in...

MCM Cares Children Welfare Activities

June 20, 2016, Beijing, China. MCM Cares continues our tradition of helping less fortunate children. Middle Autumn Festival is a happy day to gather with friends and families in China. But there is a group of children who can neither hear beautiful sounds nor speak...

MCM Cares Launches its Children’s Charity for Christmas

December 26, 2015, Beijing, China. With the goal of bringing cheer to deaf and hearing impaired children during the Christmas season, MCM Cares brought gifts and games to the Beijing Tianyun Hearing Speech Rehabilitation Training Center. Having learned that the school is facing financial problems…

Qinghe Snoopy Park Wins the IDG Golden Creativity Award

  August 27, 2015, Beijing, China. The third Golden-Creativity International Space Design Competition Award was held in Beijing. Snoopy Theme Park, designed by MCM, was awarded the Commercial Exhibition Space Design Silver Award. This competition has attracted...

MCM Receives 2015 BUILD Award for Best Community Planning

August 26, 2015, Long Beach, CA. MCM received a BUILD Award for Best Community Planning Company as the result of the success of their design for Qingdao Cangma International Resort. BUILD is a professional architecture magazine in Britain. The annual BUILD...

Edutainment Exploring Museum – Kahramaa Awareness Park

  MCM group won an international competition for designing and building a children’s exploratorium in Qatar two years ago. The Kahramaa Awareness Park is located in the capital city of Qatar and expected to be open to the public in the end of 2015. As an...

We Can Do More! MCM Does Digital

   June 12, 2015. Long Beach, CA. MCM Group International launches the Smart Interactives Division, enhancing our scope of "Designing Experiences for Life". MCM Smart Interactives include 4 parts: Digital Interactives, Digital Entertainment, Digital...

Housewarming of MCM Group

  June 12, 2015, Beijing, China. MCM moved their Beijing headquarters into the RCDL Culture & Creative Industrial Park at the beginning of June. For over thirty years the MCM Group of companies has created memorable destinations throughout the world. We have...

The New Age of China Culture – Ecological Tourism

  “The first reason that people choose to travel is meeting friends and family. The most important event that travelers experience is shopping and catering,” Michael Mitchell stated at the architecture forum in Dalian, China. Whether you agree his opinion or not,...

2015 China Amusement Theme Commercial Real Estate Developing Forum

  January 20, 2015, Beijing, China. As e-commerce is developing nowadays, commercial real estate has to be transferred to entertainment and creative experience. Under circumstances of fierce competition, the 2015 China Amusement Theme Commercial Real Estate...

MCM Group International Trip to Thailand

  April 30, 2014, Beijing China. In order to enrich the staff's cultural life while relieving workplace stress, MCM Group International offered its employees a paid trip to Thailand in early April. MCM leadership conferred great importance to the long-anticipated...

MCM Group International Annual Meeting starts smoothly

The 2012 annual meeting of MCM Group International opened successfully from January 18th to 20th, 2013 in Harbin. Michael (MCM president) and Claudia (General Manager) made summaries on 2012 and briefings on new development plans in 2013. MCM employees also made...

MCM Presents International Collegiate Design Award in Chicago

Daniel Shirk, senior designer of MCM Group, presented the collegiate design award winners with the 2012 MCM Group Mock Firms International Skyscraper Award. A NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) team won the highest honors as First Place Mock Firm in the...

MCM’s Chairman Meets with President of Peking University

Michael C. Mitchell, Chairman of MCM met with the President of Peking University Mr. Zhu Shanlu, Party Secretary and head of Council of Peking University. Also, in attendance were Li Yansong, Vice President of Peking University; the Director of the office of...

MCM Hires Matt Harmon

MCM hires Matt Harmon who will leverage his experience in solar design and background in physics to strengthen MCM's sustainable design team. Mr. Harmon received his M. Arch degree from SCI-Arc, a cutting edge design based architectural school located in downtown Los...

MCM Group Celebrates its 28th Anniversary in Beijing

MCM Group celebrated its 28th Anniversary with hundreds of guests at the celebrated Enjoy Museum of Art, Factory 798 in Beijing. The evening highlighted MCM’s current work in China as well as the company’s contributions in sustainable design and cultural projects...

MCM Wins Competition for Design of Outdoor Snoopy Amusement Park

MCM wins competition for the design of the outdoor Snoopy Amusement Park in Beijing. The park is designed to become an iconic feature of the Qinghe Gongjian Shopping Mall providing children with year-around entertainment. MCM Group was selected, in part, for its...

MCM Wins International Competition to Design 200 Meter Tower

MCM Group design concept wins international competition to design 200 meter tower. The project includes a first-class hotel, office, trading floors, restaurants and retail mall. The overall shape and layout of the project mirrors the crescent-moon shape of the...

Developing a Coastline Tourist Destination in Northern China

To promote development of China’s landscape design industry, and provide an international platform for academic discussions and international communication among relevant professionals, the "2011 International Forum of College of Architecture and Landscape...

Culture and Tourism Come Together in Tanmen Town

Culture and Tourism Come Together in Tanmen Town

MCM Group is designing preliminary plans for the Paigang Peninsula and Brother Island projects on Hainan Island's eastern shore. There is a strong interest in the Chinese real estate and development markets to embrace and explore Chinese history and culture, and MCM...

Creating a European Wine Region in Shandong

Creating a European Wine Region in Shandong

MCM Group has won a contract to complete the architectural design of multiple privately-owned wineries, each with its own distinctively styled chateau, as well as a 280-room luxury hotel in China's Shandong Province, north of QingDao City. Known as the "Rushan...

MCM Group to Design Dalian’s Luxury Resort District

MCM Group to Design Dalian’s Luxury Resort District

The City government of Changxing Island City, a regional district of Dalian, China, has retained MCM Group to plan five kilometers of coastline into a national level resort and residential development.  The project’s core design goal is to become a Class AAAAA...

MCM’s Conceptual Design for Iconic Jinan Theme Park

MCM’s Conceptual Design for Iconic Jinan Theme Park

MCM Group International has just completed the first phase of the conceptual design for the 770 mu (127 acre) Dreamland Theme Park to be located 70 km south of Jinan City in Pingyin, Shandong Province, China.  Designed to a “fairyland” theme, the park is inspired by...

Design Philosophy: The South China Sea Pearl

Design Philosophy: The South China Sea Pearl

Hainan Airlines Group wanted to create an iconic statement for their world-class man-made island project that reflected the many dimensions of Hainan Island culture and turned to MCM Group to bring this vision to reality. The design philosophy for this vibrant project...

Re-Imagining a Functional Community: Yanjin

Re-Imagining a Functional Community: Yanjin

MCM Group has been contracted by the Yanjin County Goverment to create a Master Plan for the Shuitian Dam New District in Yanjin.  The task, however, is twofold: the physical task is to create an architectural Master Plan based in the existing site; the economic task...

U Mich: Sustainability and Design Strategies in China

MCM Group’s founder and CEO Michael C. Mitchell toured the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus this week, speaking with students across many disciplines about the thinking, expertise and strategy behind designing “optimal environments” in China where construction...

MCM Group to Design World’s Largest Dinosaur Geo Park

MCM Group to Design World’s Largest Dinosaur Geo Park

MCM Group International has been selected to plan and design what is to become the largest dinosaur exhibit in the world on the site of the recently unearthed dinosaur bone bed in Zhucheng, Shandong Province, on China’s eastern coast. Discovered just three years ago,...

Designing Huzhou’s Sustainable Children’s Water Park

Designing Huzhou’s Sustainable Children’s Water Park

MCM Group International has been selected to design a new children’s water park - the largest children’s park of its kind in the country - in the new district of East Huzhou City. The park, situated on its own small lake, will be dedicated largely to water and...

MCM Group to Design Sustainable Community in Tianjin

MCM Group to Design Sustainable Community in Tianjin

MCM Group International will design “Fleur-de-Lys,” a French-styled community in Tianjin – one of the major economic centers in Northern China. Planned to be one of the most fashionable, sustainable and environmentally friendly mix-used communities in the world,...

MCM Completes Interim Designs for Hangzhou Auto Park

MCM Completes Interim Designs for Hangzhou Auto Park

MCM Group International has completed the interim designs for China’s largest and most exclusive automobile park to be built in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province located along the Southeast coast of China. The first of its kind, the park, funded by both...

Mitchell Addresses Inter-Islands Tourism Policy Forum

“Low-carbon economy and islands traveling” was the subject of discussion during the 14th session of the Inter-Islands Tourism Policy held in Sanya, Hainan, China. This forum discussed low-carbon economy to develop the islands traveling influence, promotes building...

CTG Energetics Provides LEED Training to Lianyungang

CTG Energetics Provides LEED Training to Lianyungang

John Irvine, director of Client Services for CTG Energetics, a partner company of MCM Group International, was invited to Lianyungang City in Jiangsu province by local government officials to present a seminar on LEED and sustainable development, demonstrating China’s...

MCM Holds Second LEED Training at Tsinghua University

The Sustainable Design Institute (SDI), a division of MCM Group International, held the company’s second LEED Certification Training Seminar at Tsinghua University, attended by more than 100 professional architects, designers, planners and project managers from...

Sustainable Practices for China’s First Eco-City

Sustainable Practices for China’s First Eco-City

At the invitation of local Tianjin government in China, Michael C. Mitchell, Founder & CEO of MCM Group International, delivers keynote presentation China's green construction industry, with a market value estimated at 1.5 trillion Yuan ($208 billion), is growing...

Mitchell Talks Sustainability with Jiaonan Gov’t Officials

Meeting stresses the importance of sustainability in city planning, development and construction in the face of unprecedented urban migration. In his keynote address during a training seminar to more than 200 local government representatives and businessmen, Michael...

Mitchell on Planning, Security for 2014 Youth Olympics

Michael C. Mitchell, CEO of MCM Group International met with Nanjing government officials to advise on the planning for the city’s upcoming 2014 Youth Olympic Games. Mitchell served as serving as Group Vice President of the Los Angeles Olympics, and as a senior...

Mitchell Meets to Discuss Transforming Hainan Province

Mitchell Meets to Discuss Transforming Hainan Province

Minister of Propaganda Tan Li, of the Hainan Province, welcomed Michael C. Mitchell, CEO of MGM Group International, and unveiled plans for Hainan province to build an international destination travel island. Intended to be China’s next entertainment hub, Hainan is...

PACE Wins UAE Sustainable Water Contract

Masdar City is the world’s first to rely entirely on solar and other renewable energy sources PACE, a civil engineering firm specializing in water resources, was awarded a contract by Masdar City to create 18 unique and sustainable water features, at a combined total...

Mitchell Talks Enviro Protection, Sustainability in Beijing

Invited by the Continuing Education Department of Tsinghua University, Michael C. Mitchell, CEO of MCM Group International, recognized for leading the charge in sustainable, green and low-carbon developments, was invited to help the planners building the third largest...

MCM Group joins 47th IFLA World Congress

MCM Group, an international planning and design firm, will join the 47th International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) World Congress held in Suzhou, China, May 28-30. Hosted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the IFLA, the theme of...

MCM Group’s Cooperating Relationship with EIIDC

MCMGroup International has set up close cooperation relationship with EIIDC. Ecological Committee is set up by a dozen of ministries and commissions under the State Council; the area they focused is ecological industries. With abundant experience in sustainable...

MCM to Design Redevelopment of Beijing’s Old Summer Palace

At the invitation of the Beijing Haidian Urban Planning Bureau as well as the Old Summer Palace Management Commission, MCM Group International has received approval for its proposed development plans for Beijing’s Old Summer Palace. Extolled as the "Garden of...

Mitchell Addresses Beijing’s Tourism Bureau

MCM Group CEO Michael C. Mitchell, along with leaders and key officials from 18 district and county tourism bureaus, were invited by Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau to attend the Tourism Planning Achievement Summary and Commendation.   Mitchell spoke about...