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Dong Gong - Vector Architects

06-05-2022

Dong Gong - Vector Architects

Dong Gong, founder and Design Principal of Vector Architects, Beijing-based firm, one of the most interesting and authoritative figures among Chinese architects, globally applauded with important recognitions, is our guest in this podcast.

16 projects selected for the RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2021

28-07-2021

16 projects selected for the RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2021

A major modern art museum in Shanghai and a new entrance building and visitor centre to the Museum Island in Berlin, a pedestrian and cycle bridge through the heart of Copenhagen, a beautiful artists’ home in Sri Lanka, a new hospital where the healing power of nature becomes a central element: these are just a few of the sixteen architectures selected for the RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2021, the important biennial awards handed out by the Royal Institute of British Architects. In November, the winner of the RIBA International Prize 2021 will be selected from these sixteen finalist projects.

Vector Architects: Shenzhen Pingshan Art Museum

21-07-2021

Vector Architects: Shenzhen Pingshan Art Museum

Vector Architects is leader of the consortium of firms and companies that has won the international competition for the construction of the Pingshan Art Museum. The project challenges the concept of the Chinese museum complex, ultimately creating a surprising deconstructed structure spread over multiple levels.

Vector architects’ hotel of cast concrete and concrete blocks

30-04-2021

Vector architects’ hotel of cast concrete and concrete blocks

Vector Architects design a hotel made of cast-in-place concrete and concrete blocks next to an old sugar mill

<strong>ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH DONG GONG, VECTOR ARCHITECTS </strong><br />

08-09-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH DONG GONG, VECTOR ARCHITECTS 

“It is like dropping a piece of rock in the water, generating undulating ripples, hence we feel the water flows. In this respect, a piece of architecture is no longer an independent object, but a medium to connect with things and to reveal”,- Dong Gong 

<strong>SHAPE SHIFTERS </strong>

26-08-2020

SHAPE SHIFTERS 

Places that breath new life, acquiring a new meaning and offering new functions, different from those they once embodied. 

Three hotels in China: unique experiences reclaiming the past

06-07-2018

Three hotels in China: unique experiences reclaiming the past

There is a trend in China toward reclaiming traditional forms of urban and rural architecture for conversion into hospitality facilities such as hotels, resorts and temporary residences. Thus local architectural history becomes the focus of attention for tourists.

Vector Architects: Alila Yangshuo hotel in Yangshuo, China

27-04-2018

Vector Architects: Alila Yangshuo hotel in Yangshuo, China

Alila Yangshuo is a disused sugar mill in Yangshuo, on the Li River in China, which Vector Architects have converted into a hotel complex. Chinese studio Vector Architects appropriated the spirit of the place to transform it into a picturesque scenario.

Vector Architects: renovation of the Captain’s House

11-10-2017

Vector Architects: renovation of the Captain’s House

Vector Architects renovated the Captain’s House, a home like many others on Huanggi Peninsula in China’s Fujian province. In Vector Architects’ project, the Captain’s House becomes a ring joining the two walls over the sea.

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