The ARTS Plaza is located in Suzhou where countless canals have been serving as both the essential infrastructure for the city and the framework for public space for millenniums. The design was originally commissioned as a pair of roof skylights above an underground badminton hall at the center of a newly constructed business district.

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Architects: Atelier HAY + Drury University

Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Architect In Charge: Atelier HAY + Drury University

Design Team: Miranda Middleton + Juan Zorrilla Baquero, students of Drury University

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Zhao Jiang

Project Sponsor: Feng Zhenggong, President of ARTS Group
Construction Coordinators: Gao Lin + Wu Lei + Wang Xiang, architects of ARTS Group

Publication Team: Nick Fish + Spencer Junye Zhou + Tony Yue, Atelier HAY

Artistic Consultant: MJ Neal, FAIA

Design Principal: Yong Huang, AIA, Assistant Professor, Drury University, Director, ARTS Group International Creative Center, Principal, Atelier HAY

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From the architect. The ARTS Plaza is located in Suzhou where countless canals have been serving as both the essential infrastructure for the city and the framework for public space for millenniums. The design was originally commissi...