Keystone Academy Library Beijing

Founded in 2014, Founded in 2014, Keystone Academy is a Chinese private school in Beijing, China.

This world school is founded on three keystones: bilingual immersion in Chinese and English; building character and community throughout a residential setting; and promoting Chinese culture and identity in a world context.


Classrooms, offices and learning environments at Keystone are designed with students and teachers in mind. High ceilings, large windows, and intelligent layouts make for inviting spaces that facilitate student learning at every turn.


Luke Hughes was commissioned with a brief to create a space that finely blended eastern and western aesthetics and sensibilities with a reflection of the 21st century - especially in a digital world dominated by the worldwide web.


Additionally, library aims to convey the values of European and US university libraries as they have evolved over the last 1000 years whilst projecting the ethos of Keystone Academy as a Chinese institution with an international flavour.

The result is a learning environment that is simple, understated and elegant. 
With the visionary founding principal Malcolm McKenzie, the Luke Hughes team successfully helped to shape the interiors to support a new educational paradigm at the school.

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