Dutch firm cie architects receives first prize in the competition to design the tianjin urban planning museum, china.

The conceptual framework for the project emerged from superimposing different urban fabrics from the traditional city plan of tianjin to produce a bored block of varying porosity. block strategies were used for accessibility allowing daylight  and ventilation in the building. furthermore, through a combined analysis of historical  building methods and materials indigenous to the region, the proposal was able to engage  with the chinese building tradition while developing a distinctly modern and highly sustainable museum project. de architekten cie collaborated with arup amsterdam on issues of sustainability and structure and was assisted throughout the design and presentation process by their partners in shanghai, UNIT architects.

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