A London-based firm has won the design competition for China's Hakka Park Project in Heyuan City, Guangdong Province.

The scheme includes a 6,000sq m Museum of Hakka Culture, a 20,000sq m city library, a 3,200sq m exhibition hall, a 1.3km landscaped sculpture park and a belvedere. The museum will house artefacts from the Hakka culture (Chinese migrants which settled in southern China 1,700 years ago). The exhibition hall will be used for civic events. Architects Metamode include the dean and chair of the Bartlett School of Architecture. Andrew Porter, part of the design team, said: "The next stage is to work up the scheme to get funding approval by the Chinese government. This will be done in the next two month; the government intends to fast-track this development so it's completed by the end of 2010 to coincide with the planned Heyuan Festival or Hakka culture."

Metamode has partnered with Chinese building research organization CABR to deliver it.