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  • Design Anthology

    Evolving Principles

    Dec 14, 2018 3 minutes
    Text Yvonne Xu
    Images
    Courtesy
    of Vector
    Architects
    Images by Su
     
    Shengliang

    Vector Architects rose to prominence in 2015 when their Seashore Library in Beidaihe New District in China’s Hebei province went viral across Chinese social media. But far from the shiny, twisting Bilbaoesque assemblages that epitomise the iconic architecture of popular imagination, the building in question is a lone structure set on the shore, a stoic gesture devoid of structural gymnastics. It is nonetheless a beautiful piece of

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