Super Seed Concept Store / F.O.G. Architecture
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Short Sentence Store / Woodo Studio
The new short sentence store, located in Shenzhen MIXC World, the design concept is “studio space”. Through the collision of concrete and fabric,Mix hard and soft, with handicraft as the starting point, it shapes the consistency of space design and brand spirit from form to material. In terms of spatial tonality, it is based on neutral colors but also full of details. At the beginning, let customers have a sense of curiosity and explore the brand spirit after entering the store. The rich old clothes in the room are recreated by hand to form a high or low art display, upgrading the aesthetic taste.
Ningxia Art Museum / CCTN Design
Background. Nearly a decade has passed since the project Ningxia Art Museum was launched in 2013. This building has filled the long-term blank of provincial-level art museums in Ningxia and provided a high-quality exhibition and research space for the future propaganda and development of art in Ningxia. Located in the Jinfeng district of Yinchuan City, Ningxia Art Museum stands at the starting point of the east-west public activity axis of North New Town. The site is surrounded by open space in three directions and across the street from the north side of which is the Yinchuan Civic Center of a large scale. Representing a stone column, the Ningxia Art Museum responds to the site environment and the regional culture.
Chengdu Co-Innovation and Cooperation Center / Laguarda.Low Architects
Designed by Laguarda.Low Architects, Chengdu Co-Innovation and Cooperation Center has a total GBA of 150,000 square meters that seamlessly integrates office, dwelling, and retail uses. Its core design concept is to create a vibrant and pleasant urban ecological public space while giving the project a distinct and recognizable form, and promoting communication and interaction between people. The curvilinear architectural form creates a dialogue with the surrounding high-rise buildings in a sweeping gesture within the urban grid, forms a dialogue with the surrounding environment in the contrast, and creates a new ecological urban and business space.
Beijing Fengtai Station / gmp Architects
With the new Fengtai Station in Beijing, the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have completed a complex transport building: in terms of square area, it is Asia’s largest railway station and the first railway station in China, which the tracks for high-speed trains are located above those for normal trains, which significantly reduces the footprint area of the station. Under its seemingly floating roof the new station – with two levels above ground and a floor area of almost 400,000 square meters – combines a system of different transport lines. Twelve tracks for the high-speed trains going north/south from Beijing to Hong Kong and from Zhangjiakou to Shanghai are located as terminus stations at the top level. The conventional railway lines with 20 tracks are at level 0, and two underground lines are at the level below. With these services, Fengtai Station will be an important new transport intersection and the largest of Beijing’s three intercity railway stations. At peak times it is expected that up to 20,000 passengers will use the station to arrive, depart or change trains.
Crossboundaries’ Transformable Workplace / Crossboundaries
Background. By the end of 2020, the two most significant typologies for everyday use as a society were abruptly shaken by COVID-19. The home as a place of life and the office as a place of work were under reconsideration. Most worldwide surveys indicate that more than 65% of people expect to work in a hybrid scenario after the pandemic. Which kind of synergies can be discovered in a new ecology between environmental, social, and cultural dimensions? The answer should be a living environment that actively transforms the office’s modes.
Memorial Hall of the Last Battle of the Anti Japanese War / TJAD
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the fourteen-year war of resistance against Japan came to an end. However, the war did not subside. Until the end of 1945, there was another county in the south of Jiangsu that was still occupied by the Japanese army, which was Gaoyou city. On December 19, 1945, the central China Field Army of the new fourth army launched a final attack on the Japanese army who refused to surrender in Gaoyou. On December 26, after the victory of the Gaoyou campaign, Suyu received the saber presented by Japanese Senior Minister Iwasaki in an auditorium in the people’s Park, and Gaoyou finally ushered in its liberation. This is the last battle of the Chinese people’s war of resistance against Japan and the last City liberated in the war resistance against Japan. 70 years later, the smoke of war has long dissipated, and the place where the Japanese invaders surrendered to the New Fourth Army is still standing in the center of the downtown, quietly telling that magnificent historical moment. For more than 70 years after the war, the “Park auditorium” (the place where the Japanese army surrendered at that time) has been mixed with the Gaoyou martyr cemetery, people’s Park, university for the elderly, old government office building, state department head gate, and various civilian houses. The surrounding environment is quite poor. In 2015, in order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Gaoyou municipal government hopes to organically integrate the memorial hall of the last battle with the surrounding environment and the city through design. At the same time, an auxiliary Pavilion will be added to display the historical materials of the Anti-Japanese war as a supplement to the pavilion of the last battle. And a new tourist center will be built as a supporting facility for the whole park.
Radisson Collection Resort / Archi-Union Architects
The dialogue between humanities and construction spans three years and builds up a period of random thoughts. It was a precious experience to continuously understand the landscape of the site and to integrate the design into the natural construction.
Sage Bar / OFFICE AIO
The square site of Sage Bar sits toward the end of an alley behind Chengdu’s Western International Finance Centre (WIFC). To highlight the mixologist’s herbal focus in his menu, OFFICE AIO conceived a split-level bar that culminates in a botanical centerpiece.
Urban Bloom Store / Spacemen Studio
Spacemen has designed the latest flagship for Braun Buffel, the first in a series of conceptual spaces entitled ‘Urban Bloom’. Conceived somewhere between a gallery and a laboratory, the brief called for a concept with the visual impact to draw people into the store with the intention to experiment with human interest taking precedence over design intention.