Denton Corker Marshall was engaged to produce a concept for a large library for Jiujiang University in Jiangxi Province, China. The practice was also shortlisted (with local design institute Guangdong Huafang) in an international design competition for the Jiunjiang University Teaching Hospital. The library is made up of a white cube hovering above a horizontal, cantilevered podium base, and the ground plane is defined by public engagement facilities, spilling out through transparent glazed screens onto terraces and plazas, including a timber-lined auditorium. Beside the auditorium, quieter spaces including reading rooms are grouped together. The facade references books stacked on thin plate-like shelves, expressed by randomly spaced white fins on the cube – an approach that is carried through on the podium, but with fins spaced wider apart. The teaching hospital contains 400 inpatient care beds along with an outpatient stomatology department with a radiology clinic. Its elegant facade is expressed with a textured window-wall pattern inspired by traditional Jiujiang bamboo weaving craft, producing a dynamic and compelling imagery while maximizing sun exposure. The design also includes a healing garden, in a lush 2,500 m² landscape twenty-one metres above street level.