Lang Yuan Station Cultural Centre: Beijing, China

Leading the adaptive reuse architecture in China, Beijing Textile Warehouse was transformed into the first Langyuan Station International Cultural Community - a 24x7 one-stop urban complex space, introducing new formats such as culture, film and television, design, art, science and technology research and development, and meeting multiple functions such as industry, culture and urban public services.

With the design concept of "borderless", the spatial planning of the reservoir area creates an open park, infiltrates the beautiful natural conditions around the Ba River, Liangma River and Jiangfu Park into the park, and proposes a planning axis of "two horizontal and two vertical": horizontally build the axis of the cultural square of the central station and the international cultural and leisure axis of the waterfront of the Ba River on the north side; Longitudinally build a central axis creative display commercial street and a park, forest leisure and pedestrian street.

The commercial operation format is gradually updated "from point to area", with public cultural and leisure centers, compound theaters, urban study rooms, libraries, innovative offices, comprehensive cultural IP scene experience, designer settlements, sports culture, youth education, designer hotels and other business formats as the core, supplemented by characteristic international cultural catering, cultural consumption and other commercial formats.

It has formed a rich cultural ecosystem such as a central commercial street, a creative pedestrian street, a time crystal, an urban study, a composite office, a riverside food street, a characteristic central platform, a theater, and a book complex. More than 30 textile warehouses built along the railroad tracks are divided into different blocks, introducing special shops such as film and television, catering, design, furniture and so on.

It is reported that this year, the second phase of the project, including the Central Station Cultural Center, will also be completed and is expected to open before the end of the year.