OCT XI'AN International Culture Center —New Dimensions for High Density Urban Mixed-useXi’an, CHINA
![Qian Yang County is located in one of the poorer provinces in western China. After a 2008 earthquake, California architect Jennifer Devlin offered to build a green and seismically safe elementary school. "We have enabled a future for the girls [and boys] who attend the school ... and knowing that is both humbling and empowering," she says. The project was initiated by Rosalyn Koo, a philanthropist in San Mateo, Calif., who is trying to educate 1,000 Shaanxi Province girls by 2013.](https://architectmagazine.stg.zonda.onl/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2012/d8d4867e-54df-43ea-ad6a-b533c2a54ffc.jpg?w=270)