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Vegetable House / TRIOSTUDIO

October 3, 2022 Collin Chen 0

Vegetable House is the second store of tea brand POINT in Nanjing. On the basis of the main tea service in the first store, the vegetable room is characterized by providing healthy and high-quality vegetarian services and has launched a restaurant function. The design team regards the space as an important carrier of the brand spirit, continues the flexible and open atmosphere of the tea room, focuses on creating a “social sense” of the space, and conveys the simple aesthetic spirit upheld by the brand.

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Guoliang Art SRTP Center / OR Architecture + Smart Construction of Villages

September 30, 2022 Collin Chen 0

Guoliang Village is famous for the “Heaven’s Road”, a roadway dug out of the 119-meter-high cliff by completely manual method. It is still the only way to enter the village. The original site of the project, Guoliang Primery School, is located at the highest and deepest point of the village. As the place where most of villagers studied and grew up in childhood, it carries the memories and emotions of the villagers. The design team hopes to recreate the Heaven’s Road in the building in honor of the spirit in another way, as the climax of the village, forming a first-to-last echo.

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Qingxi Culture and History Museum / UAD

September 29, 2022 Collin Chen 0

Background
Located in Nanshangang, Sangzhou Town, Ninghai County, Zhejiang, the project is positioned as a small cultural and tourism building that integrates a tourist center and spaces for displaying and experiencing the local history and culture. The site is far away from the hustle and bustle of city life, with only one country road connecting several villages nearby. And there are local villagers working in fields around the site every now and then. Due to great height discrepancy, the plot features recessed platforms ascending from north to south, with a broad view on the north side. The site faces terraced fields on the east and west sides, and embrace the view of rolling mountains in the distance.

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Techstorm Headquarter Industrial Park / DUTS design

September 27, 2022 Collin Chen 0

DUTS Design was commissioned by Techstorm in 2019 to build a headquarter industrial park in Lingang, Shanghai. DUTS team provides design total solution with planning architecture, interiors and landscape for Techstorm. Three years later, the headquarters industrial park has completed construction and put into use in 2022. The brand-new Techstorm Headquarter Park includes humanized office space, a brand-new modern factory, a R&D center equipped with world-class equipment and advanced production lines. DUTS team also innovatively integrates more public cultural space experiences into industrial buildings and offices, creating the complex headquarters office park with a “museum experience”.

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Yunzhai Village Community Activity Center / THAD

September 26, 2022 Collin Chen 0

Yunzhai Village of Changyuan City in Henan Province, where the project is located, is an ordinary village with typical features of rural area in Central China. During the past decades, the villagers’ well-being has been drastically improved thanks to social development, but a series of social problems emerged, too. For example, the outflow of labor resulted in hollowness in local demographic structure; the traditional bonds of families and neighbors been weakened, with problems of ageing and left-behind children remaining unsolved. Correspondingly, public ritual spaces here, either waning or disappearing, are in dire need of reconstruction. As a result, the village decided to build a community center for public gatherings.

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Courtyard Restaurant in Our Village / Someone Studio

September 26, 2022 Collin Chen 0

Since the reform and opening up, with the construction of rural urbanization, the rural population has been continuously transferred to the cities, leaving a large number of idle houses in the countryside. In recent years, with the proposal of the “rural revitalization” strategy, the central and local governments have issued a series of support policies, combined with the pilot reform of the rural homestead system and the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, to promote the revitalization and utilization of idle rural homesteads . Encouraged by this policy, the villagers of Shilong Village, Anji, are going to transform their idle yard into a garden-style restaurant, and commission Someone studio for the design. By investigating the existing catering shops in Shilong Village, we found that most of the local shops are in Chinese and European retro styles, and most of them retain the decoration style that was popular 20 years ago. Therefore, in order to widen the gap in visual style with the existing restaurants in the village, and at the same time achieve a higher cost performance, we hope to create the first modern-style garden restaurant in Shilong.

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KAIJI Teahouse / Ao.ArchLab + LIMU

September 25, 2022 Collin Chen 0

Kaiji Teahouse is a young brand that integrates youth culture with traditional Chinese tea culture. The store is located on Nanchang Road in the downtown area of ​​Shanghai. The site of the teahouse, Xiangshan Apartment, is an historical building built in 1933 whose ground floor area is planned as retail space. The site of KAIJI teahouse used to be three separated stores. After partial removement of the partitions, the façade spanning 12 meters is opened to the street. The original decoration was entirely demolished, therefore the original structure which was concealed for almost 90 years was finally revealed.

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M Stand coffee in Baoshan / Atelier RAW

September 24, 2022 Collin Chen 0

The project, located on a corner of the internal road of Baoshan Touch Mall, is on the path of the busy passenger flow out of the metro station. Each of the two entrances far apart faces a different road, which makes them lack relevance.

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Longmen Qicun Art Design Center / Studio Dali Architects

September 23, 2022 Collin Chen 0

Our study of Xiaoshi Village has been going on for five years, and the focus has been on the enhancement of community values and the integration with culture and industry. The Art Design Center came about as a way to build a regional planning and art gallery, attracting more and more cultural and artistic projects to the local community.

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HARMAY at Xi’an / NIHILII STUDIO

September 22, 2022 Collin Chen 0

项目落成于古城西安,一个具有着厚重的历史印记的城市。设计围绕着这所城市最为鲜明的城市符号“城墙”就此展开。古与今的对话是此次设计的核心,提取‘箭楼’、‘角楼’、“宇墙”等传统古建筑制式为引导,结合具有工业造型感的金属陈列货架,将空间打造成具有話梅品牌独特审美的新零售场景,以空间诠释话梅对文化在地性的尊重。