Song Zhaoqing

SONG Zhaoqing received his architectural training at Tsinghua University. After graduation, he started his career in Nikken Sekkei where he cooperated with Benjamin Wood and led the Shanghai Xintiandi project throughout design to construction. In 2001, he founded Lacime Architects, a practice adheres to the belief "simplify complicated materials and back to the origin." SONG Zhaoqing's portfolio comprises highly pragmatic public infrastructure to well-crafted buildings and spaces. His representative projects include Shanghai Xintiandi, Qin Ⅱ Dynasty Relics Museum, Shanghai Zhongxing Meihua Village, Shanghai Cifi Headquarter, Suzhou Vanke Da Jia, Shanghai Liva Riverside Book Bar Reconstruction, etc. He got recognition from numerous world's leading architectural design awards, including World Architecture Festival,World Architecture News Awards, The Plan Awards, Dezeen Awards, AZ Awards, ICONIC Awards and so on. Apart from his role as an architect, SONG Zhaoqing actively participates in a variety of architecture-related activities, ranging from architectural education to leading awards’ assessment and publication,etc. SONG Zhaoqing also serves as a professor at Xi`an University of Architecture and Technology. In 2019, he was invited to be a judge of the A&D Trophy Awards. In 2020, he became a member of ICONIC Awards jury panel, as well as WAN Awards’.