Binke Lenhardt

Co-founder and partner of Crossboundaries, established in 2005 in Beijing. She graduated from architecture in Germany and the United States and worked in both countries, before moving to China in 2002. She is a registered architect in Germany and appointed member of the BDA (Association of German Architects) and has been practicing for about two decades working on diverse projects in Germany, Holland, the US and China. Her approach to projects of any given nature and scale is always driven by the curiosity to examine and expand the designated programs so that they reach their highest and most community beneficial potentials. Binke follows the projects of the office all the way to realization, always with keen attention to details and readiness to learn and improve on available technical solutions. She engages actively in any stage of project development and welcomes the exchange and interaction with the client and user whenever possible. Crossboundaries’ work has been published across a range of leading industry magazines and is also frequently featured in online design media. The practice has received multiple international accolades, most recently it was a finalist in the 2021 Architizer A+Firm Awards, Winner of the 2020 Iconic Award, Winner - Best of Best of the 2020 Masterprize, and nominated for the DAM Prize 2021, among many others, also in the previous years.