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The Book Stack Education and Culture by Ling Chen is a winner of the 2018 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.

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The Book Stack Education and Culture by Ling Chen Silver Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2018

The Book Stack Education and Culture

Century-old Hangzhou Normal University builds a new campus five kilometers west of the Xixi Wetland. The new campus planning consists of more than a dozen independent but fully open colleges, whose architectural style are different, forming a rich puzzle. In the center of these colleges, the planner arranged a core area complex for all the colleges, including administrative center, archives, adult education centre, institute of Hangzhou urbanization, center library, teacher and student activity center, hotel and reception center, international conference center, theatre and central plaza.

The Book Stack Education and Culture by Ling Chen Silver Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2018
Silver Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2018 The Book Stack Education and Culture
The Book Stack designed by Ling Chen
The Book Stack - Silver Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner
Ling Chen's The Book Stack Education and Culture
Silver Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2018 The Book Stack Education and Culture
The Book Stack designed by Ling Chen
The Book Stack - Silver Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner
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The Book Stack Education and Culture

The Book Stack 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. The Book Stack 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. The Book Stack is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.


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Ling Chen

Ling Chen

Chen Ling is the co-founder and chief designer of WSP ARCHITECTS. He was elected as the top 10 new Chinese architect in 2005, one of the initiators of the international Chinese American architect club, a member of Chinese housing security expert group of the housing security and public housing policy committee, a member of the expert committee of Urban Planning, Land & Resources Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, and the 2015 Committee of the green housing design competition in Henan province; lecturer at the National Federation of industry and Commerce Design Alliance practice business school. So far, Chen Ling has done hundreds of planning and architectural design projects, his concept of "walkable city" has been published by numerous authoritative media in hundreds of planning and architectural design projects.

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Hangzhou Normal University

Hangzhou Normal University

Founded as a teacher training school in 1908, Hangzhou Normal University has a history of over 100 years, which has bestowed the institution with a glorious tradition of producing first-rate teachers and educators at different levels for the whole Chinese nation. Through a century’s development, the University has now become a comprehensive institution of higher education with a full spectrum of disciplines, covering such areas as arts and sciences, humanities, education, music, engineering, information technology, business, law, medicine and nursing.


The Book Stack Education and Culture by Ling Chen Silver Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2018

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