Vector Architects is an award-winning architecture practice founded in 2008 by Gong Dong. Based out of Beijing, China, the practice creates thoughtful designs that respond to their context, as well as the user's perception of environment and space. Their design philosophy is perfectly embodied in one of their first built projects in China, the Seashore Library.

"Every work of architecture is a vessel for living that defines user's everyday life to different extent, consciously or sub-consciously. This happens through affecting lifestyles, cultural conditions, site content, local climate etc, and this gives rise to a new kind of lifestyle. This new lifestyle, instead of being a repetition of existing conditions, should be an unprecedented life experience created through design. This is the meaning of new architecture." -Vector Architects