O-OFFICE Architects is a Guangzhou-based practice established by HE Jianxiang and JIANG Ying in 2007. Since 2012, the office has moved to the top level of a former brewery’s silo building near to the old downtown. Motivated to explore new architectural possibilities in contemporary southern Chinese urban context, O-OFFICE has been testing their methodology in architectural activities in different scales. Parallel to their professional practice, the team persists in using architectural design as a critical instrument for research on the spatial and economic reality, and struggles to maintain the balance of the two. Conservation of the urban history and study on new urban collective housing in the fast-developing Pearl River Delta region has been O-OFFICE’s main design focuses.

O-OFFICE’s main projects include iD Town Art Commune in Shenzhen, which got “Highly Commended” in AR New into Old Awards 2017, Photography Museum of Lianzhou, series of urban housing collaboration with Vanke in Pearl River Delta region. Other international honors include ICONIC Award (2014), Finalist of Grand Award of Design for Asia (2015), nomination in BSI Swiss Architecture Award. In December 2015, O-OFFICE was featured by Architectural Record as one of Design Vanguard practices.