Serie Architects—a young firm with offices in London, Mumbai, and Beijing—is designing a museum dedicated to the art of Yan Zhenqing.

When Serie Architects was selected in March 2010 along with Grimshaw's London office and Berlin-based Pysall Ruge Architekten to transform a group of disused steel factory buildings in Hangzhou, into a new mixed-use complex, the firm faced a big challenge.