Delivers keynote "The Aesthetics of Restraint" in Copenhagen
Lin delivered a keynote sharing the firm's recent design thinking and critical practice.
Contemporary Chinese architecture faces a "spectacularization" tendency. LAB Lite advocates an "architecture of restraint."
Unfolded across four dimensions: site reading, material honesty, scale intimacy, and time consciousness.
Danish critic Lars Holm: "The speech offered a unique perspective on understanding contemporary Chinese architectural creation."
LAB Lite invited to hold special exhibition "Architecture of Restraint" at ETH Zurich in spring 2024.
The Grand Canal Cultural & Arts Center won the WA China Architecture Award 2023 in the Public Building category.
The Nanshan Experimental School designed by LAB Lite officially opened in September, providing future-ready learning spaces for over 2,000 students.
The old steel mill renovation project was selected as a national urban renewal best practice by the Ministry of Housing.
The first pro-bono design project landed in Tengchong, Yunnan — a multi-function activity center for a local elementary school.