Cultural Center of Longfu, Beijing Visitors Building, Chinese Building Renovation, Architecture Images
Cultural Center of Longfu in Beijing
3 Feb 2020
Longfu Cultural Center
Design: W Studio
Location: Beijing, China

As an ancient poem once said: ?So many noble lords are strolling here, whose clothes still carries the smell of royal incense burner.” It is Longfu Temple that has witnessed the past bustling and prosperous Beijing city for centuries. Until the rapid development of city has hidden its glory into towering skyscrapers, people go hastily with the new tide of city. Longfu Building, which was a popular Beijing landmark, can be only glimpsed in the houses of Hutong occasionally.

With traces of time deeply imprinted, it stands silently, accepts oblivion, and awaits new life.
This year, as the transformation of Longfu Cultural Center is completed, the quiet hall of temple wakes up again in steel and concrete framework after several years of dreariness, continuing to write its chapters in this ancient city.

Choice · Unexpected Rebirth

Located at the top floor of Longfu Building, the palace has no longer been grand after several times of chang-es in the past few decades, and this transformation has once again given Longfu Temple a new mission. History is irreversible, but the present can be completely rebuilt. Therefore, after undertaking the renovation project of Longfu Cultural Center, Wan Xiang Design abandoned the old-fashioned scheme and only retained t...