Courtyard Drum Tower
Courtyard Drum Tower Refurbished Office by RSAA - Büro Ziyu Zhuang is a winner of the 2019 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.
Courtyard Drum Tower is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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Courtyard Drum Tower, which is next to the tallest ancient landmarks of Beijing for more than 600 years – Drum Tower and Bell Tower - is transformed from a traditional Beijing-style courtyard-Siheyuan in Dongjiaogan Hutong. The design target was to build a timeless workshop whilst embracing the surround cultural context into the yard.
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Courtyard Drum Tower by RSAA - Büro Ziyu Zhuang
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Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner in 2019.
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Courtyard Drum Tower Refurbished Office
Courtyard Drum Tower is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Courtyard Drum Tower is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Courtyard Drum Tower is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
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RSAA - Büro Ziyu Zhuang
Partner and chief architect of RSAA GmBH office. Learning after Bernard Tschumi and Kenneth Frampton, Ziyu Zhuang has been granted the Master of Architecture and Urban design in Columbia University, USA. The major works including WTC Winter Garden, 15 Penn Plaza, Nanjing Five Seasons Jinling Hotel, Courtyard No.7 at The Drum Tower, Tongling Recluse, the design of Jining Cultural Center (cooperated with SANNA, Mario Botta and Tianjing Urban Planning & Design Institute), reconstruction of Beijing LiuBaiBen Commercial Center, the new campus of Tianjing No.4 High School, and Beijing Sanlitun MISSA Lounge& Restaurant, etc. Jining Cultural Center was awarded the BIM Award of China Engineering & Consulting Association in 2016, Zhangjiagang Church was awarded Architizer A+ Award in New York City in 2017. Ziyu Zhuang won the Design and Art Achievement Award, one of the top prizes of China Building Decoration Association in 2017. In the same year, Tongling Recluse was presented in "Dream House" and became the first architectural project whose design and construction process being watched by millions of people in architectural history, meanwhile it was one of Archdaily’s Top 10 annual Architecture projects. What’s more, it won Reddot award, IDEAT Future Award, Gold A’ Design Award, Iconic Award 2018: Innovative Architecture-Best of Best, DFA Design for Asia Awards-Gold Award, German Design Award-Special Mention, INNODESIGN PRIZE - “Space design/Interior design” winner, Architecture MasterPrize-Winner in Architectural Design / Residential Architecture, WAN Awards-House of the Year and ASIA PACIFIC INTERIOR DESIGN AWARDS-GOLD AWARD in 2018. It won iF DESIGN AWARD in 2019.
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RSAA/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang
RSAA/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang was founded in 2010, in which Ziyu Zhuang works as the chief architect, and it is one of RSAA GmbH members. Meanwhile, Ziyu Zhuang is a partner of the German RSAA design group which was founded in 1965, operating in Cologne and owning around 80 architects. Based in Beijing, Büro Ziyu Zhuang aims to use the connections from Germany and China to establish a new design vocabulary making use of the resources of both to create a new element of thought, a fusion of European and Chinese architecture. This will create a new and unique style which takes advantage of the two-way system, bringing Chinese influences to Europe, crafting a new line of thought that surpasses the constraints of each individual culture, and vice versa. Jining Cultural Center was awarded the BIM Award of China Engineering & Consulting Association in 2016, Zhangjiagang Church was awarded Architizer A+ Award in New York City in 2017. Ziyu Zhuang won the Design and Art Achievement Award, one of the top prizes of China Building Decoration Association in 2017. In the same year, Tongling Recluse was presented in "Dream House" and became the first architectural project whose design and construction process being watched by millions of people in architectural history, meanwhile, it was one of Archdaily’s Top 10 annual Architecture projects. What’s more, it won Reddot award, IDEAT Future Award, Gold A’ Design Award, Iconic Award 2018: Innovative Architecture-Best of Best, DFA Design for Asia Awards-Gold Award, German Design Award-Special Mention, INNODESIGN PRIZE - “Space design/Interior design” winner, Architecture MasterPrize-Winner in Architectural Design / Residential Architecture, WAN Awards-House of the Year and ASIA PACIFIC INTERIOR DESIGN AWARDS-GOLD AWARD in 2018. It won iF DESIGN AWARD in 2019.
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