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FOG Architecture creates kinetic display for Super Seed’s Hangzhou store

October 14, 2022 Christina Yao 0

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has added over a hundred moving display boxes to skincare brand Super Seed’s latest retail store in Hangzhou, China. The studio installed 168 kinetic semitransparent acrylic boxes in the main product display area of the 300-square-metre store. Its aim was for the boxes to help create a variety of different display

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Three hundred beer crates form furnishings of Shenyang’s Fatface Coffee shop

October 13, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Bottle-green beer crates are stacked to construct a long counter and matching stools in this pop-up coffee shop in Shenyang, China, designed by architecture practice Baicai. Installed in the city’s Window Gallery for a month, the pop-up shop belongs to local cafe Fatface Coffee. Its interior makes use of 300 beer cases to create a

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Atelier Tao+C creates serene timber and travertine reading room

October 12, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Two vacant ground-floor rooms and an adjoining greenhouse were knocked together and lined with bookshelves to form this private library, designed by Atelier Tao+C for a venture capital firm in Shanghai. Set in a converted 1980s house, which is home to the offices of VC fund Whales Capital, the reading room can accommodate up to

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Offhand Practice designs second-hand bookshop in Shanghai to mimic greengrocer

October 11, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Used books are displayed in supermarket-style crates at the Deja Vu Recycle Store in Shanghai, which local studio Offhand Practice has designed to counter the “shabby” image associated with second-hand shops. The store, which also carries pre-owned fashion, is located on the first and second floor of a three-storey building on Shanghai’s buzzy Anfu Road.

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ARCity Office transforms disused power plant into Shajing Village Hall

October 9, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio ARCity Office has used black steel and glass to transform the concrete shell of a former power plant into a community hub in Shenzhen, China. Shortlisted in the civic building category of Dezeen Awards 2022, the Shajing Village Hall aims to renew the purpose of the area’s traditional ancestral halls, many of which

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Archi-Union works with students to create rammed-earth community centre

October 7, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

A sweeping, tiled roof informed by the surrounding mountain ranges tops the Yong’an Community Hub in China, which has been designed by students from Tongji University in Shenzhen with architecture studio Archi-Union. Referencing local structures and involving residents in its construction process, the rammed-earth, courtyard-style building provides a gathering space and residence for the Yong’an village’s more isolated

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Superimpose Architecture creates subterranean conference centre based on Victorian shopping arcade

October 7, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Superimpose Architecture used a traditional shopping-arcade typology to transform the dark basement of a commercial development in Hangzhou, China, into The Arcade conference centre. Designed to appeal to a young audience, The Arcade is a subterranean space made up of a wide L-shaped corridor lined with meeting rooms, a cafe, a lobby and an auditorium.

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MAD completes underground Quzhou Stadium as part of world’s “largest earth-sheltered buildings”

October 5, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

Chinese studio MAD Architects has completed Quzhou Stadium, a sinuous concrete stadium where the majority of the facilities are located below the ground. Conceived as “a piece of land art”, the 33,731-square-metre stadium will seat 30,000 people. Its interior, described by MAD Architects as “crater-like,” has undulating seating that was designed to follow that of the

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MAD completes underground Quzhou Stadium as part of world’s “largest earth-sheltered buildings”

October 5, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

Chinese studio MAD Architects has completed Quzhou Stadium, a sinuous concrete stadium where the majority of the facilities are located below the ground. Conceived as “a piece of land art”, the 33,731-square-metre stadium will seat 30,000 people. Its interior, described by MAD Architects as “crater-like,” has undulating seating that was designed to follow that of the

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Approach Design turns Beijing police station into office building with multi-storey park

October 4, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture office Approach Design has transformed a former police station in Beijing into an office building enclosed by a steel framework that functions as a multipurpose urban park called TMT Folding Park. The TMT Folding Park project was developed by Approach Design for local media company TMTPost, which took over the disused police station in

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