0ver the centuries, the coexistence of three religions – Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism – have enriched the landscapes surrounding Tiantai Mountain, located in the coastal province of Zhejiang. Like a miniature summarizing the mountain ’s history and civilization, the new museum integrates the functions of exhibition, research, education and entertainment. Far from the more analytical rationalism, and distant also from the most historicist traditionalism of the “Chinese National Style”, the design of this museum has followed two very reasonable guidelines: firstly, to organize space according to the needs of the …

Songzhuang art center
Songzhuang Art Center is the first public art facility built in this well-recognized contemporary chinese art village 45 minutes drive out of Beijing city.  With around 4000 artists living in Songzhuang area by 2008, this Art Center will provide a platform for local community.
The exhibition space is lifted up to create a welcoming horizontal flow with multi-purpose on ground level, to host exhibition, events and casual common area. The second level is rather introversive art space with only sky light or courtyard light. The surrounding landscape does not …

Pavilion e!
A temporary pavilion addressed to contemporary living and environmental issues will be introduced to the 6 months of exhibition at Shanghai expo 2010. To serve this global event and city festival, the building first evolves from ground forming an undulating surface forming a covered city electronic plaza. By mirroring this undulated surface vertically, 3 large exhibition halls are embraced by both surfaces, allowing mega scale hologram of environmental information and indoor entertainment, as well as creating a hilly-topo of roof eco-garden. An outdoor loop of escalators and corridors crosses …

Xixi Leisure Center is one of the 12 buildings located in an art and culture compound in Xixi National Wetland Park, a cluster architecture commissioned to 12 Chinese architects by Hangzhou city government. Hangzhou has been well known for its long history, rich culture and the West Lake landscape. Xixi art and culture compound is part of development to stimulate cultural tourism.
The leisure center will house leisure function as open and continuous circulation on ground level and sunken into activity pools imitating paths and ponds of wetland topography, while on …

Songzhuang artist village
Located in Tong Zhou District,eastern outskirts of Beijing, Songzhuang is the most famous and biggest artist community in China. The first artists moved here including Yue Minjun and Fang Lijun,in the early 1990’s, having been driven out of another community near the Old Summer Palace in Beijing’s north-west. For more than 10 years these artists were virtual outcasts with much of their work politically inspired, lived and worked under the watchful eye of communist authorities. With the booming of Chinese art market, Songzhuang is undergoing a dramatic expansion …

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Sino-French Centre of Tongji-University is located at the south-east corner of the campus, with 12.9 Building, the oldest existing building of the campus, and 12.9 Memorial Park on its west side, tracking field on its south side, and Siping Road on its east Side. XuRi-Building, which should be preserved, is located at the northwest corner of the site. And the other precondition is that a group of existing meta sequoias and the other scattered located nine trees such as deodar cedars, plane-trees, Japanese pagoda-trees and willows are chosen to be …

As an extension to the main building of College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) Building C is programmed for research and graduate student education on a congested site, with the main building adjoining the western side and the enclosing wall next to the northern side of the campus. The appearance of this building is considered as revelation of “dormant” potential of this silent corner in the campus, which intends to re-establish its relationship with the campus, the main building and the city. This is a building encouraging sufficient communication …

Vanke Fifthgarden, bones feeling toward China, according to the “Lingnan four garden” the idea of a modern Chinese architectural language to explore the attitude of Chinese cultural life.

5th park with a total construction area of about 63 million square meters, covers an area of about 50 million square meters, is divided into nine development plans completed. Fifth type of product-rich park, including villas, homes and high-stacked products, the project period have been occupied 1,2,3, 5,8 in the sale period. Strong community-living atmosphere, both mature communities, supporting, but also the latter …

Ningbo Art Museum’s Collections include oil painting, traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, and photographs created by Chinese artists. The Art Education Center offers lessons in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy.
The project is located at the former “Bund” in Ningbo. The whole area undergoes a functional reconstruction, because the former harbor-facilities have been moved to a new place. As part of an overall protection-plan of the historic buildings in the area, the waiting room of this former port building was reconstructed into a large museum for contemporary art by the participation of …