Xixi International, located on the periphery of the traditional business area in the west of Hangzhou city, is only 0.5km away from the Xixi Wetland. It is designed to extend the sight-gallery of the wetland to the north hoping to put the central axis of the garden together in a coherent manner via introversive type and ecological architectural language so as to build the garden into a compatible and open landscape garden.

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Architects: GAD work

Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Design Team: GAD (Zhejiang Greentown Architectural Design Co., Ltd.)

Area: 80345.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Su Shengliang
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From the architect. Xixi International, located on the periphery of the traditional business area in the west of Hangzhou city, is only 0.5km away from the Xixi Wetland. It is designed to extend the sight-gallery of the wetland to the north hoping to put the central axis of the garden together in a coherent manner via introversive type and ecological architectural language so as to build the garden into a compatible and open landscape garden.

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The garden type office concept we want to express is actually an exploration of humanized office mode which pays attention to integration of office and scenes of life. The tr...