Beijing Urban Construction Design & Development Group Headquarters Office Building was built in the 1970s and has been in use for more than 40 years. At the beginning of the renovation, the vision of creating an "Art Museum" was put forward. We hoped that the renovated office building will have the characteristics of high efficiency, energy-saving, comfort, and health of modern office buildings and create an elegant temperament like an art museum. 

In the 1970s, the west moat in Beijing was diverted to the red line of the project and became the underground river. The existence of the moat endows the site with a different historical context value. The shape of the pool in the site changes the boundary along the flow direction of the moat. Entering the lobby, the ground has been changed with the texture of water waves, and four inscriptions describe the historical changes of the moat from the formation of the Yuan Dynasty to the present. 

The façade of the building adopts an open curtain wall system of dry-hanging terracotta bricks with 5 colors, randomly alternately dry-hanging, to express the feeling of history. 65 kinds of modules, realize the construction of a variety of masonry patterns. From production, transportation, typesetting, and dry hanging, the terracotta brick wall has gone through dozens of manual processes, which is a respect for traditional skills and a perfect interpretation of the spirit of craftsmen. The fire stairs also have innovation, the flexible "transparent box" picked out on the façade, continues the connection between the inside and outside. 

This building undertakes many generations of architects‘ memory. Now the "red brick" exterior wall realized by new technologies and new materials gives the old red brick building a new life.