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Renovation of Shell Theatre in Beijing Chaoyang Park / DUTS design

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:30:24 +0000

Nestled on the three-sided lakefront central island of Beijing's Chaoyang Park, the 2008 Olympic-era outdoor Shell Theatre has completed its renewal by DUTS design. Aligned with the Liangma River cultural waterfront masterplan, the project adopts a low-intervention "10% interface renewal" strategy, eschewing full demolition to redefine the symbiosis between performance venue, public park and waterfront landscape.

Nanjing Normal University Xuanwu Science Park / DUTS design

Collin Chen — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:00:00 +0000

Background: "No.78 Bancang Street" in Nanjing - Under Zijin Mountain, beside Xuanwu Lake, this is the Zijin Campus of Nanjing Normal University, covering an area of 110,000 square meters, with a floor area of about 80,000 square meters. The campus has a good landscape and ecological environment. "No.78 Bancang Street", where the humanities and the campus atmosphere overlap, leaving behind campus memories of many people, the cultural link between the university and Nanjing city, forming an intellectual and innovative college atmosphere. In July 2019, the Zijin Campus of Nanjing Normal University with a long history ended its mission as a university campus. The government and enterprises are also actively exploring how to transform existing land functions and integrate it with the new urban economy through renewal and regeneration.

Techstorm Headquarter Industrial Park / DUTS design

Collin Chen — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000

DUTS Design was commissioned by Techstorm in 2019 to build a headquarter industrial park in Lingang, Shanghai. DUTS team provides design total solution with planning architecture, interiors and landscape for Techstorm. Three years later, the headquarters industrial park has completed construction and put into use in 2022. The brand-new Techstorm Headquarter Park includes humanized office space, a brand-new modern factory, a R&D center equipped with world-class equipment and advanced production lines. DUTS team also innovatively integrates more public cultural space experiences into industrial buildings and offices, creating the complex headquarters office park with a "museum experience".

Library Renovation in Nanjing Normal University / DUTS design

Yu Xin Li — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Foreword: "No. 78 Bancang Street" in Nanjing. After nearly 40 years of rapid development, Chinese cities have reached the critical point of large-scale spatial growth is unsustainable and land development space is severely limited. Both the government and enterprises are actively exploring an innovative way of urban development and construction, thinking about how to transform the existing land’s function and rebuild that structure through renewal and regeneration, so as to integrate with urban innovation and a new economy. In July 2019, the Zijin Campus of Nanjing Normal University, with a long history and a simple style ended its mission as a university campus. The campus covers a total area of 110,000 square meters, and the “above-ground” building area is 80,000 square meters. It leaves many campus memories for its past students and the cultural link between this university and the city.

PARK Store by Balabala / DUTS design

Collin Chen — Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Project Background. With the introduction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area policy, the city of Foshan has begun to attract public attention. In the 2020 selection of new Tier 1 cities, Foshan is among the new Tier 1 cities for the first time. Foshan’s profound Lingnan culture has also attracted more and more attention and has become a new regional urban cultural center. Recently, DUTS Design completed the renovation of a century-old Lingnan house located in Lingnan Tiandi, Foshan together with Chinese kids fashion brand balabala. It has been transformed into a brand new space named PARK by balabala, a park experience space that has no boundaries with nature, creating a composite space integrating clothing, parent-child leisure, culture, and fashion lifestyle, bringing people a brand-new upgraded immersive experience. The century-old Lingnan building was “rebirthed” with new vitality from the unbounded natural landscape and the fusion of new business forms.

Jinniu District Library and Waihuacheng Middle School / DUTS design

Collin Chen — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:00:00 +0000

DUTS design has recently completed the new“Chengdu Jinniu District Library”, after four years of construction. The project is located in the northern part of the downtown area of Chengdu. As a cultural landmark of the Jinniu District, it comes out as a surprising "three-dimensional book" for the city of Chengdu with its unique and charming architectural image, reflecting the public culture of the new era into a high-level of architectural culture.

Top Floor Renovation of World Expo Joint Pavilion No.3 / DUTS design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, DUTS Design completed a new working space design in Huangpu District. This project locates in the southern part of the Urban Best Practice Area, pervious Expo field of the Puxi, next to Huangpu River and Power Station of Art Museum. The landscape and cultural resources surrounding this area are abundant. This design redefines the interior functionality. It is a multiuse space that contains the capacity of conferences, exhibitions, shows, roadshows, and parties. This space is also pointing to meet various requests from two companies that come from different fields of enterprises.

Linxia Grand Theater / DUTS design

罗靖琳 — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Linxia Grand Theater is located in the core area of planned new town in Linxia City, Gansu Province. It covers an area of 52,300 square meters and has a ground floor area of 15,000 square meters and a total building height of 46 meters. In the architectural design, simple geometric sphere with unique recognition is adopted, together with the classic proportion of patterns and texture. However, it is undoubtedly necessary to enlarge such a refined and figurative shape into a public building of 90 meters in diameter and 46 meters in height, which has brought huge challenges to the designer. How to reflect the pattern texture and form proportion but also to avoid concretization is the first biggest challenge faced by the designer.

Linxia Olympic Sports Center Stadium / DUTS design

Collin Chen — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 03:00:00 +0000

Located in the core area of Linxia Planned New Town, Linxia Olympic Sports Center Stadium covers an area of 41,134 square meters with a total construction area of 28,452 square meters. The building is composed of auditorium and international standard stadium. It is a large-scale sports facility with large and medium-sized sports competitions and training as its main function, taking into account the functions of leisure, fitness and entertainment of the citizens, with a total seating capacity of 20,410. The project has been completed and has become one of the landmark cultural facilities in Linxia.