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Minimal home by AD Architecture challenges “box-like” urban development in China

September 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Minimalist dining room by AD Architecture

Chinese studio AD Architecture has completed a mixed-use building in Shantou, Guangdong Province, which features a geometric facade and a minimalist family home. Called Red Box, the building in Xinxi Town is designed by AD Architecture to challenge the monotony it saw in new developments in China. Breaking up its external form is a geometric

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Minimal home by AD Architecture challenges “box-like” urban development in China

September 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio AD Architecture has completed a mixed-use building in Shantou, Guangdong Province, which features a geometric facade and a minimalist family home. Called Red Box, the building in Xinxi Town is designed by AD Architecture to challenge the monotony it saw in new developments in China. Breaking up its external form is a geometric

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Curving roof incorporates seating at Yang Liping Performing Arts Center

September 26, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture office Studio Zhu-Pei has completed a performing arts centre in the Chinese city of Dali featuring an undulating roof that incorporates viewing areas and seating. The arts facility was commissioned by local professional dancer Yang Liping for a site to the northeast of the city’s historic centre, where Beijing-based Studio Zhu-Pei has also designed

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JG Phoenix references Tang dynasty architecture in minimalist Shantou restaurant

September 26, 2021 Ali Morris 0

Sui Han San You restaurant by JG Phoenix

Walnut columns and blackened timber screens nod to the architecture of China’s golden age in this atmospheric restaurant in Shantou by local interiors studio JG Phoenix. Founded by three friends, the eatery is named Sui Han San You or Three Friends of Winter after a Chinese phrase, which refers to pine, bamboo and plum blossom.

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Wutopia Lab wraps bookstore in perforated facade to mimic clouds

September 4, 2021 Ali Morris 0

Duoyin bookstore Huangyan by Wutopia Lab

Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has used layers of perforated metal to transform two disused buildings on the banks of Taizhou’s Yongning River into a bright and modern bookshop. Rather than demolishing the existing buildings or attempting to perform “cosmetic surgery” on their cluttered, commercial facades, the studio decided to simply wrap the structures in white

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AIM Architecture adds slide-like staircase to Shanghai store In the Park

September 3, 2021 Alice Finney 0

Shanghai studio AIM Architecture has inserted a red staircase that resembles a children’s slide in the middle of this clothing store to create a playful interior. Named In the Park, the Shanghai store was designed to reflect the playfulness of the clothing brand while drawing on the layout of traditional Chinese parks. AIM Architecture wanted to

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Carlo Ratti Associati designs hydroponic “farmscraper” for Shenzhen

August 27, 2021 James Parkes 0

Carlo Ratti Associati has unveiled plans to build a 218-metre-tall skyscraper in China that would grow crops using hydroponics, as well as contain spaces for selling and consuming the produce. The Jian Mu Tower would occupy the last available plot in Shenzhen’s business district, completing the city’s central skyline. The 51-storey building dedicates 10,000 square

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Ten Chinese bookshops that display books in imaginative ways

August 24, 2021 Alice Finney 0

Yangzhou Zhangshuge bookstore's tunnel interior

From shops that display books on tree trunk columns to stores that reflect books all over the walls, we’ve rounded up ten bookshops in China that exhibit books in non-traditional ways. Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore, Chongqing, by X+Living Mirrored ceilings and zigzag staircases create the disorientating interior of this bookstore in southwest China designed by Shanghai-based

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Liang Architecture Studio creates retrofuturistic boutique in Hangzhou

August 24, 2021 Ali Morris 0

Grand steel and micro-cement structures, celestial lighting and symmetrical layouts add a sense of ceremony to the shopping experience within this clothing boutique in Hangzhou, China by Liang Architecture Studio. Located within a corner unit on a busy street in the city’s Xiaoshan District, the 300-square-metre Audrey boutique sells women’s fashion. Arranged over two floors,

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HAS uses frosted glass to “blur boundaries” in Chongqing bookshop

August 23, 2021 Alice Finney 0

The interiors of The Glade Bookstore in Chongqing

Translucent glass shrouds the books within this bookshop in Chongqing, designed by architecture studio HAS Design and Research. Located in Chongqing’s dense city centre, The Glade Bookstore is a bookshop, restaurant and exhibition space designed to act as a “spiritual and restful place” in the otherwise bustling Chinese city. HAS Design and Research (HAS) drew

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