HZS: Winner of International Residential Architecture Awards 2025. The project is located in the central, bustling area of Qiaoxi District, the main urban core of Shijiazhuang, enjoying a prime geographical location. Within a two-kilometer radius, comprehensive city-level amenities provide residents with convenient living. The transportation network is highly accessible, with Xisanjiao Station on Metro Line 3 only a 550-meter walk away, fully embodying the efficient mobility principles advocated in sustainable development.

The land-use planning follows the principles of rational resource utilization and ecological balance in sustainable development. Based on the city’s urban fabric and surrounding conditions, building heights are arranged to decrease progressively from northwest to southeast, cleverly forming two architectural clusters. The northern cluster is planned for high-rise buildings, while the southern cluster is designed as low-rise apartments. This layout maximizes land use while minimizing disruption to the natural environment. Residences are staggered in a north-south orientation, ensuring ample daylight for each building, while allowing all residents to enjoy community landscape views. This equitable sharing of landscape resources enhances residential quality and promotes the long-term sustainability of the community’s ecological environment.

On the project’s southern edge, adjacent to a major city thoroughfare, a 15-meter setback is reserved to create a landscaped urban green belt. At the southwest corner, an open space is designed as a street-corner park, effectively mitigating the sense of building mass at the urban intersection. Together with the planned parkland on the western side, the project adds a public activity space to the city, fostering harmony between people and nature and enhancing the ecological resilience of the community.

The building façade adheres to the design concept of “Natural Realm, Splendid Subtle Luxury”, reinterpreting the requirements of Shijiazhuang’s internationalized urban residential character through a futuristic and fashionable interface. It aspires to create Hebei’s first “Natural Shanghai-Style Mansion”, injecting distinctive architectural and cultural depth into the city’s sustainable development. The design references the compositional language of public buildings, deeply integrating Shanghai-style elements of Qiaoxi, and employs modern, high-quality materials such as aluminum profiles and low-E glass. These materials not only deliver excellent performance in reducing building energy consumption—meeting sustainable energy-saving requirements—but also use curved forms and interlocking details to impart a streamlined futuristic aesthetic, demonstrating the adaptability of architecture to contemporary development.

The architectural palette features a primary silver-white tone of low chroma and high brightness, complemented by a light champagne accent, creating a harmonious and comfortable visual impression. In detailing, the design emphasizes twin columns combined with horizontal compositions, underpinned by precision construction. Refined metallic edging lines further accentuate the architectural structural language, elevating the design to an artful, sculpted quality while ensuring structural durability and stability. This extends the building’s lifespan, reduces resource waste, and enhances sustainability.

Residential unit design is conceived from the perspective of sustainable development, focusing on improving residents’ quality of life and considering their emotional needs. Moving beyond single-function layouts, the design creates multidimensional living scenarios, delivering an immersive spatial experience. The clover-shaped layout ingeniously integrates four bedrooms with two bathrooms, expansive dual living rooms, wide-span dimensions, and an LDK (living-dining-kitchen) open hall, forming a fluid spatial circulation. This improves space efficiency and satisfies diverse lifestyle needs of residents.

Project Details:-
Firm
HZS

Architect
Han Wei, Li Jianfei

Project Name
WEIJING TANGIM

Project Category
Housing Multi-Family Under Construction

Team
Li Xin, Sun Hao, Wang Fang, Zhang Yafeng, Yao Jian, Zhu Hongkang, Yao Rumei, Yu Ming, Huang Zhongxin

Project Location
Shijiazhuang City

Country
China

Photography ©Credit
©HZS

HZS is an multi-disciplinary design firm striving to provide “integrated” services of planning architecture and landscape design to our clients.

Founded for several years, HZS always concentrates on comprehensive design with seamless joint of planning, architecture and landscape and ensures that all design can be perfectly constructed.

HZS has about 800 employees worldwide and our core design team includes dozens of registered planners, architects and landscape designers home and abroad.