On March 4, 2025, the highest honor in the global architecture field, the Pritzker Prize, was announced, and Chinese architect Liu Jiakun became the second Chinese architect to receive this honor after Wang Shu (2012). This award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Architecture" and "the highest honor in the industry" due to its professionalism and influence. The jury praised Liu Jiakun for "responding to the challenges of the times with common sense and wisdom, and reshaping daily life scenes through architecture."

　　Liu Jiakun's latest work, the Grand Canal Hang Steel Park, also received the Outstanding Award at the World Landscape Architecture Awards (WLA) in June 2024. China Construction Science and Industry Corporation undertook one of the landmark projects of the Grand Canal Hang Steel Park—the comprehensive protection project for the old industrial site GS1303-08, Phase I of the cultural and sports facilities (industrial relics transformation project), which officially passed the completion acceptance in January 2025. The project adheres to the construction philosophy of “using the old to complement the old, and using the new to highlight the old, preserving the industrial texture”, integrating industrial relics with modern landscapes, making it an important window for narrating the story of urban industrial development and showcasing the cultural essence of the canal.

　　Located beside the canal at the western foot of Banshan, the Grand Canal Hang Steel Park was formerly the Hangzhou Iron and Steel Plant established in 1958, which was the core area of the original Hang Steel industrial site, carrying the memory of New China's steel industry.

　　In 2015, the production line at the Hang Steel Ban Shan steel base was shut down, entering a phase of protection and transformation. Liu Jiakun focuses on "symbiosis of old and new," preserving industrial textures such as blast furnaces and plant frames while incorporating art exhibition halls and fitness spaces for citizens, creating "readable history and participatory future". In 2022, to protect, inherit, and utilize the Grand Canal culture, China Construction Science and Industry Corporation began the construction and transformation of the project, revitalizing the Grand Canal Hang Steel industrial site in early 2025. 

　　From the "hot pot-style community" of Xicun Courtyard to the "industrial narrative" of Hang Steel transformation, Liu Jiakun adeptly uses local materials (red bricks, rusty iron) to reconstruct spaces, allowing architecture to "tell the story of the land." At the same time, his designs emphasize public accessibility, as seen in the aerial walkways and open courtyards throughout the Hang Steel project, stimulating interaction and symbiosis between citizens and history.