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  Project Title

  Tower of Bricks

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  Interval Architects

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  Oscar KO, Yunduan GU

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  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Cultural

• Project Link
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• Project Location
  Hebei, China
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  December, 2018
• Client
  Hengshui Botanic Park


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  Interval Architects
• Lead Architect(s)
  Oscar KO, Yunduan GU
• Other Team Members
  Oscar KO, Yunduan GU, Zexing YUE, Xianmei HU, Jing CHEN, Jin HUANG
• About Firm
  Interval Architects is a Shanghai-based architecture design practice co-founded by Oscar KO and GU Yunduan. The practice critically examines issues relating to urbanism, architecture and the environment. We believe that architecture should possess qualities that reflect specificities of its context and become a spatial production that belongs to a certain place and time. The practice has completed several representative projects including Tower of Bricks, Raffles Kindergarten and House G.

The bricks used in the project is no longer bricks burnt of soil due to the lack of agricultural land in China and other pollution problems. Instead we used a kind of brick that was burnt of shale which was much more environmental-friendly. While the spatial composition of the new architecture has a reference to the brick kiln existed before, the new building promotes the notion of sustainability.

Bio
Interval Architects is a Shanghai-based architecture design practice co-founded by Oscar KO and GU Yunduan. The practice critically examines issues relating to urbanism, architecture and the environment. We believe that architecture should possess qualities that reflect specificities of its context and become a spatial production that belongs to a certain place and time. The practice has completed several representative projects including Tower of Bricks, Raffles Kindergarten Complex and 1/2 stadium.

Other prizes
AustraliaThe Design Studio category-Shortlist UKEmerging Practice of the Year-Silver Prize USAInstitutional Architecture category-Small Firm of the Year UKEmerging Architect of the Year category-Longlist USAShanghai|Beijing Shortlist GermanyBest of Best & Winner USAWinner USASpecial Mention ItalyHonorable mention JapanShortlist UK Shortlist