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Maitreya Dharma Hall on Abandoned Mine

Maitreya Dharma

The project is inside the Xuedou Mountain Scenic Area, in Xikou Town, Fenghua District of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, with a planned land area of 144.997 square meters. The project site used to be an abandoned quarry with an open area in front of it, with complicated topology, where the height difference between the highest point and the bottom of the abandoned quarry is about 35 meters, and a North-Ring underground railway line passes through under the quarry.

Maitreya Dharma Hall on Abandoned Mine by Guanghai Cui has been recognized as an outstanding example of architectural design by the A' Design Awards. Maitreya Dharma Hall on Abandoned Mine received the Platinum A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design in 2023. The A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award is an international, juried, academic and meritocratic design competition which celebrates outstanding design of skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions, religious structures, infrastructure designs, landscaping projects and more.

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