Photographer: Qiang Zhao | ArchDaily

Hangzhou First People's Hospital Tonglu Branch / UAD

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hangzhou First People's Hospital Tonglu Branch is situated in the High-speed Rail Future City of Tonglu County. It is adjacent to the Tonglu Station of the Hangzhou-Huangshan High-Speed Railway, with the painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" in Tonglu County as the backdrop. The hospital, featuring an all-steel structure, is designed as a comprehensive Grade-A tertiary hospital certified as a Three-star Green Building. The project covers an area of 70,000 m2. The total construction area is about 202,000 m2, with 139,000 m2 above ground and 63,000 m2 underground, and a total number of 1,100 beds.

Cai Yuanpei Square and Jiemin Library / UAD

Valeria Silva — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 23:00:00 +0000

This project is located in a historical and cultural block in Shaoxing, renowned as Wang Xizhi’s Native Place. The construction includes the improvement and upgrading of the former Cai Yuanpei Square, the renovation and refurbishment of Jiemin Cinema, and the new srtuctures of Jiemin Library. As the block inherits the city’s cultural features and distinctive construction style, which have accumulated and evolved over time in urban fabric and architectural features, there exists both healthy communication and undesirable ruptures across time. In a historical context which is dynamically developing, we dialectically approach a series of sites within the project, namely Jiemin Cinema, Julong Lane, Shaoxing Fifth Hospital, Cai Yuanpei Square, the neighboring Cai Yuanpei Former Residence and Jiefang Road, for there intertwines the existing modernity and the occurred tradition which makes the block unforgotten, but miscellaneous. Our renewal and renovation work, based on node analysis of this ancient city, making full use of historical figures and events through vicissitudes and strangely scattered architectural spaces and venues from different times, activate Jiemin Library’s new functions to jointly shoulder the responsibility with Cai Yuanpei Former Residence, a national cultural relics protection unit, of enriching public cultural service and powering the ancient city.

Qingxi Culture and History Museum / UAD

Collin Chen — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Background. Located in Nanshangang, Sangzhou Town, Ninghai County, Zhejiang, the project is positioned as a small cultural and tourism building that integrates a tourist center and spaces for displaying and experiencing the local history and culture. The site is far away from the hustle and bustle of city life, with only one country road connecting several villages nearby. And there are local villagers working in fields around the site every now and then. Due to the great height discrepancy, the plot features recessed platforms ascending from north to south, with a broad view on the north side. The site faces terraced fields on the east and west sides and embraces the view of rolling mountains in the distance.

Fuyang Yinhu Sports Center / UAD

Collin Chen — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Less than 100 days before the opening of the Asian Games Hangzhou, Fuyang Yinhu Sports Center is ready for the arrival of the Asian Games, the sustainable operation after the Games, and the evaluation from all walks of life. The design team of the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University adheres to the design concept of "realizing green Asian Games through economic means and constructing cultural Asian Games through low-tech means". On the basis of respecting professional sports technology requirements, combining the landscape intention with Fuyang characteristics, as well as adopting a simple form, a compact spatial layout, environmentally friendly building materials, low-tech construction means, and sustainable venue facilities, the competition venues (sites) for shooting, archery, and modern pentathlon during the Asian Games are designed, aiming at successfully implementing the holding purpose of "green, intelligence, conciseness and civilization" of the Asian Games. With a land area of 275,182m² and a floor area of 85,840.7m², this project is one of the 12 newly built venues for the 19th Asian Games in 2023. At that time, the three major events of shooting, archery, and modern pentathlon in the Asian Games will be held here.

Hangzhou Asian Games Baseball and Softball Sports Cultural Center / UAD

Collin Chen — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The intrinsic nature of sports architecture prompts us to rethink how to organize its intrinsic relationship with the city. We wanted to build a sports community driven by the stadium, which fully considers the multiple possibilities in the urban context and integrates them into urban life with a forward-looking perspective. At the same time, the concept of sharing and opening runs through the whole life cycle of the building, making it a link between culture and life, giving sports buildings unique public service value.-- Qian Xidong

Shunchang Museum / The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University

July Shao — Thu, 26 May 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Shunchang Museum is located in a county that features a unique location. As approaching the project, the architects studied the internal connection between the site and the city, balanced the local context with metaphorical creation, and worked to let the building integrate into local citizens’ daily life and carry the memory of those who’re residing in places far away from their hometown. Designed in response to local context and based on a people-centered principle, the museum is not merely a space that collects and displays exhibits. For the city where it sits, the museum itself is an exhibit, platform, and symbol. It carries the nostalgic sentiments of local people and interprets the past and future of local culture. The project is located in Shunchang County, Nanping City in Fujian Province. Shunchang is surrounded by mountains, with Futun Stream passing through. The museum is sited in a core urban area, with its south side facing Longshan Mountain across a road and overlooking the Monument to People’s Heroes in the distance, and the north side adjoining a waterfront walking trail along Futun Stream. The plot stretches in an east-west direction, with a limited depth in the south-north direction. Featuring a spindle-like shape, it sits in between mountains and water. The programs of the project mainly include a museum, an urban planning exhibition center, office rooms, and cultural relics storerooms. Meanwhile, with consideration of the operation of this venue, the architects engaged in functional planning and positioning and added some extra functions such as an auditorium, book bar, and cafe. As a common county-level museum, Shunchang Museum accommodates no key well-known collections, so the entry point and focus of the architectural design was shifted to let the building integrate into citizens’ daily life and carry the memory and nostalgic sentiments of locals especially those leaving their hometown. This place embraces the view of mountain and water landscapes and evokes a sense of nostalgia.

UAD Campus in ZITOWN / UAD

Xiaohang Hou — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:00:00 +0000

As China continuously promotes the industrialization of architecture, an unconventional rapid construction mode based on the prefabricated system has gradually become mainstream in the market. Is industrialized construction a synonym of "roughness" and "low quality"? And how should it express the poetry of architecture? The project is an office building (Building B1) of the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd. (UAD). It's located in ZITOWN, a base of R&D company headquarters jointly developed by the government of Xihu District in Hangzhou and Zhejiang University. As one of the demonstrative prefabricated architecture projects selected by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China in 2019, the prefabricated rate and assembly rate of this building are respectively up to 85% and 96.8%. In addition, it's rated as a national Class-3A prefabricated building and a three-star green building. At the beginning of the design, we put forward the idea of making use of technology to serve rather than dominate the design. We adopted a holistic approach that involved systematic integration and multi-disciplinary collaboration, to create a venue filled with human care. The design emphasizes the poetry of industrialized construction, aiming to break the stereotype of general prefabricated buildings as rough, crude, and cool.

Prix Versailles 2021: World Selections for Airports, Campuses, Passenger Stations and Sports announced

Fabian Dejtiar — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 05:00:00 +0000

The annual Prix Versailles awards, created in 2015 to promote a better interaction between the cultural and the economic, announced the 2021 World Selections celebrating 24 projects in the categories of Airports, Campuses, Passenger Stations and Sports.

Hangzhou Olympic Sports Experimental Primary School and Kindergarten / UAD

罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Hangzhou Olympic Sports Experimental Primary School & Kindergarten is located next to the "Lotus Bowl", the main stadium of the 2022 Asian Games, and the Xixing Bridge, the entrance gate to the Hangzhou Airport. The site is surrounded by high-rise residential buildings and viaducts. The site boundary is incomplete and at an angle of about 40 degrees south by east. The entrance and exit interface of the campus is quite short. To meet the needs of the future development of school education, the design defuses all kinds of adverse factors through a unique layout, implanting a new space on the basis of solving the basic functions of the school, making it connect with the existing teaching space to create unlimited use functions and space potential. It provides a "dream stage" for children to grow up happily.

Putuo Mountain New Passenger Transportation Center / UAD

Collin Chen — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 20:00:00 +0000

In the era of internationalization and globalization, products we use and even our thoughts have been separated from local languages and cultures. The world is increasingly becoming "virtual" and "flat". For architecture, globalization has brought advanced construction approaches and optimal materials, but at the same time caused anxiety and loss of identity. We think that modern architecture needs to reincorporate local context and cultural elements, reactivate the spirit of the site and balance internationalization and localization, so as to realize diversified architectural designs in the future.

Jiashan Museum & Library / UAD

罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:00:00 +0000

Jiashan is an eco-friendly and green development demonstration area in the Yangtze River Delta, a Top 100 Chinese county, as well as the only county-level scientific development demonstration area in China. Jiashan Museum & Library is a cultural complex, which is intended to offer local citizens a public cultural activity venue and to greatly enhance the cultural vitality of the county.

International Campus of Zhejiang University / UAD

Collin Chen — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 02:00:00 +0000

In the era of globalization where cross-border flow of educational resources has become the norm, Zhejiang University has proposed a strategic concept for the construction of an international campus. The project is located at the Juanhu Lake International Science Park, east of Haining City, Zhejiang Province. To its south is the Juanhu Lake which covers an area of 1,300 mu, and to its north is the Wetland Park. River channels run along the east and west side, forming a natural shield around the site.

The Colors of Brick

Lilly Cao — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:30:00 +0000

Brick is one of the most popular materials for architects designing with a vintage or rustic aesthetic: exposed brick walls are often touted as highly desirable for apartments, restaurants, and stores, and exterior brick facades can make a building or home feel warmer and more inviting. However, the color and cut of the brick can greatly influence the atmosphere it emanates, with white brick lending itself to more minimalist design and tan brick tending to feel more rustic and earthy. In this article, we will explore some of the most popular brick colors, ways to artificially color brick, and recent projects that use brick facades or interior brick elements effectively.

Sanmen Theater / UAD

Collin Chen — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 22:00:00 +0000

Nested in the heart of the administration and culture district of Sanmen County, Sanmen Theatre is a multi-performance venue where users’ experiences and social participation are priorities. Functions include a 1000 seats auditorium, a cinema, a convention hall, and exhibition spaces.

Jiyu Square Reconstruction / UAD - ACRC

Collin Chen — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 23:00:00 +0000

The Great Yu Mausoleum is located at the foot of Kuaiji Mountain, six kilometers southeast of Shaoxing, covering an area of 245mu, backed by Kuaiji Mountain and facing the Great Yu Pool, beautiful and majestic. Great Yu is the ancestor of the founding of China and an ancient hero of water control. The Great Yu Culture is one of the important cores of Chinese civilization and an important pillar of national cultural self-confidence, which has been admired by later ages and accompanied by endless sacrifices in various dynasties and generations. The Great Yu sacrifice rituals have been going on for 4,000 years since the beginning of the Xia Dynasty and handed down from generation to generation and continue to this day; and it was upgraded to a state-level sacrificial activity in 2007 and is scheduled to be held every year during the Grain Rain season. With changes and developments of the times, the Scenic Area needs to open up new spaces to assume more social responsibility and greater expectations of the masses.

Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Binhai Primary School / UAD

Collin Chen — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:00:00 +0000

Project Overview
"Shake, shake, to Grandma's Bridge ...". The nursery rhymes of the dream sounded in my ears, and then it returned to the small village with crisscrossed rivers. The green trees on the shore were full filled with sweet fruits, and the children on the awning boat could pick them up. Now, in this jungle of steel and cement, we are more concerned about whether the next generation will get excellent education resources, and if they can stand out in the fierce competition with their peers. Nevertheless, we completely ignore their contact with nature, which leads to this generation Children have "natural deficiencies."

Faculty of Management and Economics of Dalian University of Technology / UAD

Collin Chen — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Every one of Dalian University of Technology is familiar with grey buildings, and every student of the Faculty of Management and Economics bears an octagon building in mind. Architecture is rooted in environment, while it also breeds environment.

Cyrus Tang Foundation Center / UAD

Collin Chen — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 02:00:00 +0000

As the headquarters of Cyrus Tang Foundation (CTF) in mainland China, the project is a complex which integrates multiple functional spaces, including the foundation's offices, a museum for displaying various gifts that the foundation has received, and spaces for holding exchange activities with its college members, including exhibitions, conferences, and training, etc.