Founded in 2014 · Partners with 20 years’ experience each · 20+ international and regional awards
WZWX is a multi-award-winning architectural practice specialising in industrial architecture and commercial mixed-use across Taiwan and China. It is led by brothers Dr Richard Wang and Dr Stephen Wang, trained in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe, with offices in Taipei, Shenzhen and Jiangsu.
Our projects range from advanced manufacturing parks, factories, laboratories and logistics halls to harbour factory revitalisation, masterplans, brand interiors and concept stores, covering the whole value chain of production, R&D, display, sales and experience. We also support international companies establishing or expanding facilities in Taiwan and China. We work fluently in English with European and US counterparts, and know the Taiwanese system well (see Setting up in Taiwan). Across all of it we prefer understated beauty: clean, unsuperfluous, carefully distilled.
As your single point of contact, we can start with land due diligence (site analysis, traffic connections, code review, feasibility, timeline and budget) and carry the project through masterplan, architecture, interior, furniture and full construction supervision. In Taiwan, we work with locally licensed architectural firms on permit drawings and approvals; in China, with qualified local design institutes.
Before founding WZWX, the Wang brothers worked for OMA/AMO in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the practice founded by Pritzker Prize laureate Rem Koolhaas. They then spent five years on the client side as managers of architectural design at Shihlien Chemical, a major chemical manufacturer in China — designing plants, laboratories, dormitories, guest facilities and dining halls, expanding existing factories, and taking part in real estate development. There they jointly project-managed Building on the Water, designed by Pritzker Prize laureate Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira, which won ArchDaily’s 2015 Office Building of the Year. That experience shapes how we work. Having sat on the owner’s side of the table, we think as owners do. We give practical advice and make sound decisions, and we design buildings that work for production and for the people inside them: practical to run for years to come, easy to maintain and built to last.
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Growing up in New Zealand left us with a deep respect and appreciation for nature — it is rooted in how we work. That sensibility shapes how we site each project in its context, how inside and outside connect, how space flows between them, how views are framed, and how daylight is brought in. These concerns remain at the core of our design approach, whether the brief is a production hall, a laboratory, or a quieter place for people to rest.
We focus on functionality, aesthetics and human comfort.
For industrial projects in China and Taiwan especially, attracting labour into manufacturing has become harder. From our experience, improving workers’ working and leisure environments helps recruit and retain talent — and is increasingly necessary.
Even as manufacturing moves towards automation and robotics, many processes still depend on skilled hands. In meat processing every piece is different, so cutting still needs people. The carbon-fibre frames of top-end bicycles are still laid up by hand. For work like this, the interior environment of a factory will stay vital for years to come. It makes production spaces more appealing, more comfortable and more productive.
Guided by a rigorous, finely detailed aesthetic and a human-centred design philosophy, our work has won 20+ international and regional awards, including the German Design Award, Red Dot “Best of the Best”, the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors and the Architizer A+ Awards, pushing forward innovation in industrial space.
With 30 years of experience in civil construction management, Mr Lin specialises in the comprehensive coordination of structural design, façade design, MEP services, and interior detailing across residential, office and industrial projects. He brings a unique sensitivity to design in his approach to the art of project management.
He was chief construction manager for The Building on the Water, the headquarters of Shihlien Chemical, named ArchDaily's Office Building of the Year in 2015.
Featured in IndesignLive — WZWX Rising Stars (2017)
Featured in Architizer — Emerging Firms to Watch (2021)
Featured in Archello — 25 best architecture firms in Taiwan (2024)
Featured in Rethinking The Future — 25 top architecture firms in Taipei (2020)
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Industrial architecture has been an area of deep interest and investigation for us since 2010. Our work has taken us across industrial zones located in diverse parts of China and Taiwan, where we have carried out the design of bespoke production facilities, technology parks, cutting-edge factory complexes and related amenities, offering us a unique insight into the changing intricacies and potentials of “productive architecture”.
Manufacturing currently accounts for about 16% of the global economy (in GDP terms), and about 14% of global employment (World Bank, n.d.; United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 2024). It represents one key facet of national and urban development policy, and continues to be a key stabilising force underpinning socio-economic growth. In China, the largest global manufacturer, industry and construction together contribute over a third of the national GDP and almost 30% of all employment, with industrial added value alone exceeding U.S. $5.5 trillion (National Bureau of Statistics of China, n.d.; World Bank, n.d.). Even in the US — although widely regarded as a ‘post-industrial’ economic power — manufacturing still accounts for about 10% of the country’s vast GDP, contributing about US$2.9 trillion a year to its national economy (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, n.d.; National Institute of Standards and Technology, n.d.).
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WZWX (澤新建築) is an architectural practice led by founding partners Dr Richard Wang and Dr Stephen Wang, with offices in Taipei, Shenzhen and Jiangsu.
Because we have been the client. Before founding WZWX, Richard and Stephen Wang spent five years (2010–2014) as Shihlien Chemical’s in-house architectural design managers, working directly with the chairman, issuing drawings, coordinating design institutes and government offices, and project-managing the Building on the Water by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira. We know what an owner needs from an architect: practical advice, sound decisions and buildings that are easy to run and maintain. We remain your single point of contact from land due diligence to construction supervision, with offices in Taipei, Shenzhen and Jiangsu and projects across Taiwan and China.
Industrial architecture and commercial mixed-use — factories, laboratories, logistics halls, workplaces, harbour and brand interiors, and selected masterplans across Taiwan and China.
Meat processing (T-HAM’s Pingtung plant, LEED Gold), a carbon-fibre bicycle factory and office (Quest, Taichung, LEED Gold), a lithium battery plant and office (Shihlien New Energy, Suqian, Jiangsu), a pu’er tea factory and brand base (Shan Tea, Yiwu, Yunnan) and the laboratory of a medical-grade salt plant (Shihlien Biotech, Huai’an). We also designed the façade and interiors of HPW’s cold-storage logistics centre and seafood market in Kaohsiung. Beyond the factories themselves, we design factory offices, staff canteens, dormitories, product showrooms and reception spaces, and masterplan industrial parks.
Taipei, Shenzhen and Jiangsu — covering work in Taiwan and mainland China.
Write to info@wzwx-group.com or use the Contact enquiry form. Describe the building type, location and programme — industrial, commercial, interior or masterplan. We reply directly; no third-party disclosure of personal information.
This site toggles English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Project work and client conversations are handled in the languages needed for Taiwan and China commissions.
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