Seoul Foreign School, New High School
The New High School is a beautiful and efficient machine for contemporary learning, rooted in its context while shaped by international best practices. Peter Schubert, Design Partner Traditional Korean architecture is marked by openness and privacy: a delicate balance of bringing the landscape inside, while at the same time providing separation. Two of the primary […]
Jing’An Innovation Galaxy International Cultural and Creative Park
The project combines both existing structures and new buildings to support a variety of business typologies and scales. The goal is to create a district which can support a diversity of entrepreneurs, allowing new start-ups and established businesses to operate side-by-side, creating opportunities for interaction and symbiosis between a range of businesses. This project creates […]
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Campus Expansion Master Planning and Architectural Design Competition
An identifiable core completes the institution’s historic quad and integrates the campus and its activities with adjacent neighborhoods, effectively enhancing the Academy’s influence as a creative force, as an engine for art and as a cultural and creative hub for the city and region. The massing, scale and proportions of the new academic core building […]
Huawei Wuhan Research and Development Campus
Integrated into the natural topography and landscape of the site, the design’s central valley blurs the edges between the built and natural environments. Peter Schubert, Design Partner Eight research buildings are arranged in narrow linear bars – a repetitive design that creates a strong unifying visual identity, defines the edges of the campus’s central valley, […]
Nanjing Qilin Technology Innovation Park
Interconnected office floors within the design’s towers and lush, landscaped courtyards, promenades and roof terraces express the project’s goal of increasing moments of connectivity in the daily lives of the neighborhood’s office workers, researchers and residents. Peter Schubert, Design Partner This Silicon Valley-inspired district creates a 24/7 mixed-use urban research hub. Consistent with the city’s […]
Cape Horn Sub-Antarctic Center
Our intention is to touch this breathtakingly beautiful and delicate landscape lightly, to minimize the Center’s environmental footprint, in terms of natural systems on site, critical common resources such as electricity and potable water, and maintenance over its life-cycle. Richard Olcott, Design Partner Interdisciplinary, socio-ecological research programs that bring together scientists, intellectuals, artists, indigenous people […]
Lingang Science and Technology City
A combination of glass facets and striated stone façades wraps the continuous podium, injecting a sense of permanence and solidity. Heroic cantilevers create gateway moments into the project while announcing the City with a dynamic gesture that projects a forward-looking identity for the next global innovation center. Thomas Wong, Design Partner The Lingang Science and […]
Xiamen Music Center Design Competition
Adjacent to a historic nineteenth century military fort, the Music Center acknowledges the site’s history and landscape within a new spatial choreography. The embrace between mountainous landscape and the built environment and between the undulating shoreline and corresponding profile of water define the city of Xiamen and shape the design concept. The building is spliced […]
Vanke Shenjiang E16-2 Competition
The design makes strong programmatic and visual connections with the city at three scales. At the scale of the city, the design’s primary tower focuses direct views of the Shanghai Pudong skyline. At the district scale, the design makes visual connections with the adjacent bridge and river. Last, at the neighborhood scale, the project makes […]
Shanghai Children’s Library
The Shanghai Children’s Library is the first step in a larger comprehensive plan that merges architecture and landscape to create a visionary indoor-outdoor learning environment — a “Reading Park”. Building upon the library design’s merging of building and landscape, this master plan envisions strategic, episodic updates, additions, and revisions that catalyze the park’s existing potential […]