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Jiangshan Tonglumen Urban Terrace / gad

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Jiangshan Tonglumen Urban Terrace is located in the core area of Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province — a waterfront public core integrating a neighborhood center, retail, hospitality, and urban plaza. To the east, the site adjoins the ancient city wall ruins, where the Xu River and the Luxi Canal converge; century-old sycamores and the old street fabric remain intact. Yet despite this depth of historical heritage, the site has long been fragmented by modern traffic roads and an artificial canal, forming a structural void within the urban fabric. How to transform this void into a public catalyst for the city's core area — allowing the vitality of everyday street life to flow back to the waterfront — became the central design question of this project.

Timber Structure Pedestrian Bridge of Yitaiyipin Garden / GREEN ARCHITECTS + gad

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This project is located in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, and serves as a covered pedestrian bridge within Yitaiyipin Garden. The bridge features a semi-circular plan, elevated at the second-floor level, connecting sloped gardens at both ends.

CECEP·Shouzuo Beijing / gad

韩爽 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Located along Beijing's South Fifth Ring Road, the project aims to create a high-quality integrated real estate development with both industry benchmark significance and practical utility. The design integrates advanced technology from a forward-thinking perspective, accurately achieving its core goals through the organic integration of functional modules and diversified innovation in formal design. In terms of spatial layout, the project innovatively juxtaposes urban offices with talent apartments, exploring the functional and resource linkage and sharing between public use and community living to build a high-quality integrated community that combines "work-life-leisure."

Xingyao Science and Innovation Park / gad

Andreas Luco — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Xingyao Science and Innovation Park is located in Hangzhou Hi-Tech Zone, surrounded by many science and technology parks and industrial parks. Both sides of the Park are old industrial buildings built at the end of the last century and a small number of newly-emerging science and technology parks. The industrial space is relatively monotonous and there are no communication and leisure places. The urban service capacity is weak. The design of this project not only focuses on its internal office function. How to add positive and open urban spaces and interfaces to the surrounding area has become a key consideration in the design.

Vanke Xi An Club / gad

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Vanke Xi An Club is located on the shore of Fuxian Lake in Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, with a wide view and superior landscape resources. With a construction area of 4,740 square meters, the project consists of functional spaces such as a swimming pool, a yoga room, a gym center, a library, an art gallery, and one coffee shop.

Smart New World Innovation Center / gad

Andreas Luco — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Smart New World Innovation Center project is located in Hangzhou High-tech Zone, on the north bank of the Qiantang River, and next to Zhijiang Bridge. It is a gathering area and incubation base of the wisdom industry integrating commercial services and business office functions, which will attract a number of high-tech industries and strategic emerging industries to settle in the future. The unique location of the site and the gathering of specific talents in the future have put forward new demands different from traditional offices.

Hangzhou International School (HIS) / line+ studio + gad

Collin Chen — Mon, 08 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

"The future education scenarios we envision should be a community where knowledge, information, and vitality are intertwined, and sharing, diversity, and complexity are embraced."——Zhu Peidong.

HIS Hangzhou International School is one of the earliest K-15 international schools in Hangzhou. In 2018, a new campus was built on the south bank of the Qiantang River in Baima Lake, which includes three academic departments of primary, and secondary school, as well as an independent ECE (Early Childhood Education) program. Based on the school's non-traditional educational philosophy, objective site constraints, and the self-reflection of architects, we attempted to redefine the meaning of education and create a new teaching scenario characterized by intensive land use and high-efficiency space, with shared and communicative space as the main feature.

Red Stone Formation Cultural Center / line+ studio + gad

Collin Chen — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Dongfengyun Art Town, where the Art Center is located, is on the outskirts of Miele City, Yunnan Province, about an hour's drive from Kunming, the Provincial Capital. Since 2014, Luo Xu, an artist from Yunnan Province, has created a series of sculptural installations such as "Kaleidoscope" and "Half A Cloud", as well as large and small clusters of tile kilns built of red bricks, which have constituted an unrestrained exotic world with the red boundless Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and rugged mountains. The Art Town, which covers an area of about 1.6 square kilometers, is well known to people.

Yunlong Mountain Meditation Hotel / gad

July Shao — Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Usually, the particularity and complexity of the site also constitute the front label of the building. This design object is the Yunlong Mountain Meditation Hotel, Xuzhou, which is located on the axis of worshiping Buddha in Xinghua Temple. It has a natural tranquil atmosphere and a superior landscape vision. The operator hopes that the hotel can provide accommodation and commercial support for the worshiping Buddha meditation guests. Under this background, our intervention strategy for this site is to first consider following the original environment, then integrating into it, and finally creating a new "order".

Glory Office Park / gad

Collin Chen — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:00:00 +0000

An office scene is an act of collaboration and creativity, as well as an overlay of leisure and social moments. In the field of office park design, gad has systematic comprehensive research and extensive accumulation of practice. We hope to design according to the culture and regional characteristics of different owners, so as to improve the office experience and stimulate the vitality of the park.

Shaoxing Rice Wine Town Reception Room / gad

Xiaohang Hou — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Shaoxing rice wine has a long history and its culture is deeply rooted in this soil. Dongpu Town, where the project is located, has been the center of the Shaoxing wine industry since ancient times, and is known as "Shaoxing old wine comes from Dongpu and you can smell the aroma of wine ten miles away from Dongpu ". The original site was a workshop for producing rice wine, now its red brick chimney is preserved. In the early stage of the project, it will be used as Shaoxing Yellow Rice Wine Exhibition and Experience Hall, including yellow rice wine cultural experience exhibition, bookstore, flower shop, and other functions. Later, it will be converted into a waterfront commercial building containing three restaurants and a bookstore.

Haimen Yungu Agricultural Exhibition Hall / gad

Collin Chen — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, Haimen is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the East and the Yangtze River in the south, facing Shanghai across the river. Its name came from the "The Sea and River Gateway". Haimen is the hinterland of Wu Yue culture and the hometown of Chinese rice culture. Haimen Yungu Agricultural Exhibition Hall is located here. Like a large number of investors and architects who have poured into the countryside in recent years, the design team of this project is also faced with the historical choice of returning to the native land or making innovation.

Zhejiang Jiande Aviation Training Base / gad

Collin Chen — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:00:00 +0000

In recent years, the aviation industry in China has accelerated rapidly. Relying on this, Jiande Aviation Town has become the only characteristic town in Zhejiang province to build the whole industrial chain of general aviation.Jiande Aviation Training Base is located in the center of Jiande Aviation Town, which will focus on the role of aviation training and education.As the first practice for gad to adopt general contracting mode of EPC project,the project integrates design creativity and construction activities, and constantly adjust materials, process, cost, construction quality, schedule, coordination and management and other links, so as to achieve a high degree of completion of the design.

New Century Resort, Nanjing / gad × line+

Yu Xin Li — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Gaochun is the back garden and south gate of Nanjing. Adjacent to Gaochun Old Street and next to Gucheng Lake, it is a parent-child vacation cultural tourism complex – Nanjing Gucheng Bay Scenic Area which is invested and constructed by Yada Group, operated by CYTS, and designed by line+. New Century Resort Gaochun Nanjing and Visitor Center is located outside the scenic spot, and it is the commercial supporting facilities and urban interface of the scenic spot. The traditional Gaochun Old Street and the expanded commercial area are on the west side of the site, and the modern urban community and supporting commercial streets are on the east side. Therefore, we hope that when new buildings intervene, they can not only connect and stitch the texture of the old city but also continue and renew the form of the old city.

Hylla Cloud Nature Experience Center / gad

Collin Chen — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Hylla Cloud Nature Experience Center, also known as the "Red House", is located on the gentle slope of Yanjiao Village, Baisha Town, Lijiang, Yunnan Province. It is a natural living scene experience place in Hylla Land. On one side, it looks up at the snow-capped mountains and glaciers, on another side; it overlooks the village and countryside. Except for one side of the countryside, the other three sides are closely surrounded by the complete canopy line extending from Mount Zhishan. In front of the project, there are lawns, water pools, and trees, high and low, successively arranged; behind the house is a natural canal, across the water from the main building of the hotel. In this specific site, the architect uses his own unique interpretation of the "local", not restricted to the existing experience and the public label, which have caused a "casual" building to break through the ground.

Xi'an Qujiang Art Center / gad

罗靖琳 — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:00:00 +0000

When living is no longer just living itself, but more related to city functions, life will become more diversified. Qujiangyin community complex, located in Qujiang New District of Xi'an city, runs through the thinking of urban design in its planning and design, breaks through the existing city grid, more completely interprets the breadth and depth of modern life, and blends community life and multiple modern scenes in the city scale from apartments, hotels, business, office to exhibition space. Qujiang Art Center, as the core space at Qujiangyin Block, symbolizes the modern Manifesto of community connecting the city.

Mountain & Sea Art Museum / gad

Collin Chen — Fri, 15 May 2020 01:00:00 +0000

The art museum, situated in the west of Kunming City, is an important public building in the Cuifeng Ecological Park. The meaning of “Mountain & Sea” comes from its position, keeping away from the hustle and bustle of the city and appearing vividly on the mountain, as well as from its location at the north end of the Dianchi Lake system, with excellent landscape resources, and the city, water and mountains are all included in the sight. The strong site characteristics also contribute to the special art space.

Jinan Greentown Financial Center / gad

Collin Chen — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:00:00 +0000

The verse of “A picturesque city surrounded by hills and lakes lined with lotus flowers and willow trees” is a vivid reflection of Jinan, also known as Quancheng (the city of springs). Its traditional downtown appearance now presents with changes. At the same time, traditions are being revitalized in the integration and interaction with the modern. Greentown Financial Center Project is located at the traditional downtown area of Jinan, facing Luoyuan Avenue in the north. It is surrounded by many traditional commercial buildings and traditional residential buildings in different forms. Like a new comer, the new and the old bring a variety of interest with the intersection of different architectural features.