Press Release
Jie Li Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Tongxiang Red Education Center in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
The international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Jie Li for architecture, building and structure design
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COMO, Italy, April 26, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ Tongxiang Red Education Center by Jie Li, designed for Atelier Tssh, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Tongxiang Red Education Center
Tongxiang Red is an education center in Shufeng Village, a water town in Tongxiang, Jiaxing. The site was formerly the Tongxiang Huaneng Tower Factory, built in the 1980s, and is surrounded by water on three sides. The new building keeps the orientation and the volume of the former factory, so the place retains a familiar landmark. The exhibition halls are clad in curved perforated aluminum panels in red and ochre, layered to suggest fluttering flags. A weathering steel gateway leads from an old bridge into the courtyard. The center covers 6195 square meters.
Award Record
With this recognition, Jie Li is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/176707
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/176707
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!176707
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/373955
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Tongxiang Red Education Center
- Function
- Education Center
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Black, Light Blue, Saddle Brown, Light Steel Blue and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Atelier Tssh
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jie Li
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #176707
Credits
- Team
- Li Jie
- Image Credits
- Photographer Zhu Runzi,Pespective 1, 2022.; Photographer Zhu Runzi,Aerial view 1, 2022.; Photographer Zhu Runzi,Pespective 2, 2022.; Photographer Zhu Runzi,Pespective 3, 2022.; Photographer Zhu Runzi,Pespective 4, 2022.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Red Culture Education Center of Tongxiang City is located in Shufeng Village in Tongxiang. The village is located in the far suburbs of the city and its space presents a scattered aggregation along the rural roads and natural water bodies. In 2021, Shufeng Village was successfully selected as one of the first batch of Jiaxing City's rural revitalization demonstration villages.
- Inspiration
- Tongxiang Red Education Center is located in the south of Shufeng Village, a typical water town in the south of the Yangtze River. The village has a dense water network and a superior natural environment. The project site is surrounded by water on three sides, and there is a preserved Qing Dynasty bridge on the water body to the east, which was used for daily walking between the original factory and the village. The site was originally the Tongxiang Huaneng Tower Factory built in the 1980s. There are two casting workshops on the east side of the factory area, which have open spaces and good structural performance.
- Research
- The Red Culture Education Center of Tongxiang City is located in Shufeng Village in Tongxiang, a typical water town in the south of the Yangtze River. The local government decided to build the Red Culture Education Center of Tongxiang City based on the unique red resources of Shufeng Village, hoping to enhance the public's recognition of the village's past red history through the construction of the center, and at the same time attract tourists and students from surrounding cities to further invigorate the village and deeply promote rural revitalization. The site was originally the Tongxiang Huaneng Tower Factory built in the 1980s.
- Challenge
- Starting from the architectural phenomenology, Steven Holl proposed how to "anchor" buildings in their sites and how to make buildings carry the past history while connecting to the future？ At the beginning of our design, we considered how to form an anchor point in a loose and open rural space. The original factory, as an industrial building from a special historical period, has a huge volume that contrasts sharply with the surrounding residential houses. As a production site, many local residents have worked here. We fully utilized the historical relics left from the special historical period.
- Realization and Technology
- The main pedestrian entrance of the venue is located on the southeast side of the site. Visitors can cross the ancient bridge to enter the courtyard. The entrance of the courtyard is an independent door-shaped entrance space made of weathering steel plates. The inwardly inclined metal door opening is like a focusing lens, which can guide people's vision to the red-themed sculpture at the starting point of the outdoor exhibition. The building's facade of the exhibition hall is made of curved perforated aluminum panels in red and ochre colors. Through the interlacing of layers, a spatial effect of fluttering flags is created.
- Operation and Interaction
- The architectural design aims to create an inward enclosed space by utilizing the existing factory space and connecting corridors in a spacious and loose spatial structure. Partially alleviating the "crisis of entity" caused by the separation of spatial relationships between individual buildings in the area, while also providing a gathering and inward facing public space for rural areas.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2022 in Shufeng Village, Shimen Town, Tongxiang, Jiaxing City.And finished in August 2023.
- Keywords
- architecture, renovation project, rural revitalization,
