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Studio.

"I commission the architects I love. The drawings stay with me."

An archive of original concept books and design-development packages from the world's leading studios — commissioned by Mr. Lee, executed in formal collaboration, and personally retained. Available here for confidential review.

Eight commissions · six studios

Original concept & design-development books.

2011

Beijing Songzhuang Design Museum

Zaha Hadid Architects · London

A concept design for a sculptural cultural museum in Beijing's Songzhuang art district, by Zaha Hadid's London studio. The project remained at concept stage.

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2013

Wenzhou Yongjia World Trade Center — competition

Rafael Viñoly Architects · New York

Rafael Viñoly's competition concept for the Wenzhou Yongjia WTC, contributing to the master-planning vision that ultimately advanced into UNStudio's detailed design.

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2013

Wenzhou Yongjia World Trade Center — competition

Büro Ole Scheeren · Berlin

Büro Ole Scheeren's competition entry — proposing aerial passages and dramatic sky-bridge structures across the five-tower complex.

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2013

Wenzhou Yongjia World Trade Center — competition

Aedas · Hong Kong

Aedas's panoramic urban-landscape vision — five sculpted towers rising from a continuous green podium, defining the original "Treasures on a Tray" concept later refined into the built scheme.

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2014

Wenzhou Yongjia World Trade Center — detailed design

UNStudio · Amsterdam

Ben van Berkel and UNStudio's detailed design package, refining the "Treasures on a Tray" master plan into delivered architecture: five crystalline towers linked by aerial gardens, the defining work of the complex.

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2016

Shanghai Minhang "French Town" master plan

SPARK Architects · London

A heritage-inflected master plan study for a cultural-tourism district in Shanghai's Minhang District, by SPARK Architects' London studio.

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2018

Nanjing Jiangbei Central Business District

Büro Ole Scheeren · Berlin

Büro Ole Scheeren's interim design report for Nanjing Jiangbei CBD — a multi-tower mixed-use district anchoring the new central business zone of Jiangbei New District.

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2018

Wenzhou Sanjiang Peninsula mixed-use complex

Aedas · Hong Kong

Aedas's master-planning concept for a riverside mixed-use district at the Sanjiang Peninsula, integrating waterfront landscape with a multi-tower commercial cluster.

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Curriculum vitae.

The full bilingual résumé — career timeline, public references, and the verifiable record behind each commission above.

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