Li Xiaodong has become the first recipient of ... an integrated cooling system that draws cold air from the surface of a lake in summer and pulls it up through the building, explained Xiaodong, ...

News: Chinese architect Li Xiaodong has become the first recipient ... of a lake in summer and pulls it up through the building, explained Xiaodong, and 99 per cent of the materials used in ...

New Building of School of Architecture / Li Xiaodong Atelier. Image VB: Ever since 2008 world financial crisis architects have been talking about the importance of the economy of means.

The architect Li Xiaodong completed the new Liyuan library – a building covered in firewood. The Liyuan library designed by the Chinese office of Li Xiaodong, situated in Jiaojiehe village in the ...

One of the immediate impressions that I formed of the Beijing-based architect and Tsinghua University Professor Li Xiaodong (b. 1963) is his reassuring self-confidence. Following our interview ...

The Moriyama RAIC International Prize awarded $100,000 to the Chinese architect Li Xiaodong for the Liyuan ... called it "a modest yet powerful building that makes architecture from a deep ...

Li, of Beijing's Li Xiaodong Atelier, received the inaugural Moriyama RAIC International Prize in October for a building whose radical design could have his fellow architects turning over a new leaf.

The Liyuan Library’s façade is covered in rustic branches which filter the sunlight into its interior. Designed by Li Xiaodong, the library is located in a forested region just outside of Beijing.