Now that‘s a groundbreaking: One year ago, in January 2009, Bustler reported on German Henn Architekten winning the 1st prize in the international competition for the China Life Insurance Research & Development Center. Now, just a few weeks ago on September 17, 2009, an…

The competition winning proposal, by Munich-based Henn Architekten, for the China Life Insurance Research & Development Center on the rural outskirts of Beijing takes up the parameters of Chinese traditional buildings and translates them into highly technologically developed, forward-looking design. The complex for China’s biggest insurance company consists of a…