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Saiwen Liu's Meishan Mining Smart Center emerges through a twilight atmosphere rendered in muted blue-gray tonalities characteristic of the blue hour, presenting an undulating architectural form that…

Meishan Mining Smart Center by Saiwen Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.


SilverArchitecture· 2023

Meishan Mining Smart Center

by Saiwen Liu

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Meishan Mining Smart Center

The Meishan Mining project is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 13 kilometers away from the center of Nanjing. Its predecessor is Meishan Iron Mine, which was founded in October 1959, and resources are now close to exhaustion. The government plans to build it into an industrial heritage park, so the whole design is centered around the two goals of meeting the function of the existing mine wisdom command center and taking into account the overall effect of the site park.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Meishan Mining Smart Center 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. Meishan Mining Smart Center 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. Meishan Mining Smart Center is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

Where to Get It

Industrial Heritage & Adaptive Reuse Architecture

We transform abandoned industrial sites into vibrant smart centers and cultural spaces. Our award-winning team specializes in preserving industrial heritage while integrating modern functionality. From mining facilities to manufacturing plants, we breathe new life into forgotten structures.

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Unique Properties
The project is located at the Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 13 kilometers away from the center of Nanjing. Its predecessor is Meishan Iron Mine, which was founded in October 1959, resources are now close to exhaustion. The government plans to build it into an industrial heritage park, so the whole design is centered around the two goals of meeting the function of the existing mine wisdom command center and taking into account the overall effect of the site park.
Inspiration
Meishan Mining smart center is an old plant reconstruction project, which is composed of three adjacent buildings, the original machine repair workshop, the parts warehouse and the warehouse. A group of hill-shaped corridors are added to the North facade of the three buildings to connect them as a whole. Inspired by the surrounding mountains,The corridors adopt Abstract mountain shapes and gray and white tones to highlight the beautiful style of white walls and black tiles Jiangnan architecture.

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