架构师提供的文本描述。西安交通大学位于苏州工业园区，环境优美，文化传统丰富，经济发展迅速。艾达斯的行政信息大楼设计灵感来自于苏州周围出土的著名太湖石。

Text description provided by the architects. Located in Suzhou Industrial Park, the Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University occupies a beautiful environment where there is a harmonious coexistence of the city’s rich cultural traditions and its rapid economic development. Aedas’ design for its Administration Information Building was inspired by the famous Taihu stone unearthed around the Suzhou city.

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艾达斯

太湖石有时被称为学者的石头，因为它们深受中国学者的喜爱。它们是一种长期遭受波浪侵蚀的石灰石，在石头上形成孔隙和洞。石材外观奇特而陡峭，具有很高的观赏价值，自古以来一直是园林设计师的最爱。

Taihu stones are sometimes referred as scholar’s stones, as they are much appreciated by Chinese scholars. They are a kind of limestone exposed to long term wave erosion, resulting in pores and holes all over the stone. Peculiar and precipitous in appearance, the stones are of high ornamental value and have been a garden designers’ favourite since the ancient time.

这些石头的多孔性被转化为一个空洞的结构，将建筑物内的不同方案连接在一起，其中包括一个管理中心、一个学习和资源中心、一个培训中心和一个学生活动中心。这些空隙还允许建筑物对用户和周围的环境做出响应，并将其转化为进行交互的容器。不同高度的空隙创造了一个三维苏州花园内的建筑，并提供空间可持续的特点，如引入自然日光和通风。

The porous nature of the stones is transformed into a void structure with functional spaces linking up different programmes within the building, including an administration center, a learning and resources center, a training center and a student activities center. The voids also allow the building to respond to the users and surrounding context and turn it into a vessel for interaction. The different heights of voids create a three-dimensional Suzhou garden within the building, and provide rooms for sustainable features such as the introduction of natural daylight and ventilation.

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艾达斯

西安交通-利物浦大学是西安交通大学与英国利物浦大学合资成立的一所新的国际大学。行政信息大楼最近超过了其他类别的获奖者，并在2014年“南华早报”第18届建筑和设计奖上获得了大奖。它还在2013-2014年A‘设计奖上获得建筑、建筑和结构设计白金奖，并被列入2013年世界建筑新闻商业奖的入围名单。

Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University is a new international university jointly founded by Xi’an Jiaotong University China and the University of Liverpool UK as a joint venture. The Administration Information Building recently topped other category winners and won the Grand Prize at South China Morning Post Chivas 18 Architecture and Design Awards 2014. It also received a Platinum award under Architecture, Building and Structure Design at A' Design Awards 2013 – 2014 and was shortlisted in the World Architecture News Commercial Awards 2013.