Associate
BArch, MArch
Beijing, China
Di Ding
Photograph by Hufton + Crow
Di has played a key role in ZHA projects like Leeza SOHO and Wangjing SOHO in Beijing, and in recent years the Capital International Exhibition & Convention Centre in Beijing and the Unicorn Island Masterplan in Chengdu. Designing optimised workflows using advanced technologies, Di collaborates with clients, consultants, and construction teams. Her works extends to administrative responsibilities, acquisitions, exhibitions, office management, marketing, and contract negotiation.
Prior to ZHA, Di worked at Pure Design in Shanghai, contributing to urban design and masterplanning projects. She also collaborated with Minimaforms in London on interdisciplinary and interactive installations, including robotic-arm-based exhibitions.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Featured Projects
From a mixed-use masterplan for 70,000 researchers, office staff, residents and visitors, Unicorn Island has been designed to a leading centre of commerce, culture and government, discover highlights of Di's notable projects at ZHA.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Di received her Bachelor of Architecture from Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and her Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the Design Research Laboratory (DRL) at the Architectural Association (AA) in London. She was a tutor for the AA Visiting School in collaboration with Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Di’s education and travels exposed her to diverse architectural styles and approaches. Outside work, she enjoys travelling and immersing herself in different cultural, social, artistic, and culinary experiences.
Projects
Explore a selection of projects Di has contributed to since joining ZHA.
Photograph by Hufton + Crow
Tall Buildings
Offices
Located on Lize Road in southwest Beijing, Leeza SOHO tower anchors the new Fengtai business district; a growing financial and transport hub between the city centre and the recently opened Beijing Daxing International Airport to the south.
Render by Negativ
Offices
The new Taikang Financial Centre will be a centre of excellence, developing effective systems and networks that will provide a new ecosystem of support for people of all ages across China. Using the new technologies developed within the Taikang Financial Centre, the group will continue its commitment to supporting community development, healthcare, education and well-being throughout the country.
Courtesy of ZHA, render by MIR
Start-up exhibition and conference centre
Masterplans
A mixed-use masterplan for 70,000 researchers, office staff, residents and visitors, Unicorn Island has been designed to enhance the well-being of its community; its design influenced by principles within the region’s historical natural engineering projects.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Mixed Use
Civic
As the cultural, academic and civic centre of China, Beijing has also developed into one of the world’s centres of communication and scientific research.
Courtesy of Soho China, photograph by Jerry Yin
Offices
Mixed Use
Located in Wangjing’s centre, Wangjing Soho is a mixed-use development consisting of three towers 118, 127, 200 metres in height designed as three interweaving ‘mountains’ that fuse building and landscape to bring together the surrounding community with a new 60,000m² public park. The design responds to the flows of the city and allows natural daylight into each building from all directions.
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