Serene Chinese boarding school named World Building of the Year

The school’s roof “doubles as an open-air lecture hall and a rooftop park with sporting facilities, usable by the public at the weekend — creating a new typology of architectural promenade,” a press release for the WAF explained.
Courtesy Approach Design Studio/Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group
Last year’s top prize was claimed by Australia’s Quay Quarter Tower, dubbed the world’s first “upcycled” high-rise after its design retained two-thirds of an old skyscraper on the site.