China

Dim sum restaurant by Linehouse is “British tea hall turned Chinese canteen”

November 18, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Linehouse’s contemporary Hong Kong restaurant takes its cue from the life of cross-cultural pioneer John Anthony and references a retro, east London Chinese canteen. Designed by Shanghai and Hong Kong-based architecture and design studio Linehouse, the restaurant is named after John Anthony, the first Chinese-born man to be naturalised as a British citizen, in 1805.

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Bob’s Select bar decorated with liquor lettering

November 17, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Architectural studio Designreserve has created a liquor store-cum-bar in Sanlitum, Beijing with three rooms that display rare bottles in increasingly intimate settings. The Bob’s Select space is the flagship store for the affordable liquor retailer Bob’s Wine, and is aimed at creating a community space in a busy shopping area. Beijing-based Designreserve collaborated with graphic

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Puzzle Ball Theatre will be covered in geometric interlocking concrete panels

November 15, 2018 India Block 0

Steven Chilton Architects has designed a domed theatre in Guangzhou, China, that will resemble an intricately carved ivory puzzle ball. The 2,000-seat theatre’s entrances will be surrounded by layers of offset circular openings, getting smaller and smaller until the exterior meets the interior. The building is designed to recall a Chinese puzzle ball – these

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Lukstudio creates theatrical shop for Chinese fashion brand Dear So Cute

November 13, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Lukstudio has designed a shop and cafe for fashion platform Dear So Cute in Haining, east China, with theatrical flourishes to engage with young shoppers. The Dear So Cute space in Haining, a city to the west of Shanghai, is both a retail store and cafe, inspired by the fashion and cafe culture of Seoul. The shop

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Sasaki unveils plans for giant Panda reserve in southern China

November 13, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Global studio Sasaki are masterplanning the Chengdu Panda Reserve to protect the animals, while also accommodating growth in the rapidly expanding Chinese city. The 27-square-mile panda reserve, planned for Chengdu – the capital of the Sichuan Province in southern China – will be deigned by Sasaki following a government-sponsored design competition. One of the main aims of the project is

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Wave-shaped roof of recycled tiles tops Wang Shu’s Fuyang Cultural Complex

November 7, 2018 India Block 0

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Wang Shu’s Amateur Architecture Studio has designed a cultural complex topped with clad in recycled tiles near Hangzhou, China. The Fuyang Cultural Complex, comprises of three buildings – the Fuyang Museum,  Fuyang Archives and Gongwang Art Museum. The complex’s wave-shaped rooftops are clad in mixed tiles and traversable via staircases and paths accessed from

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Urban Cabin by MINI Living and Penda takes cues from Beijing’s hutong homes

October 31, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

In our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie, Oke Hauser and Corinna Natter of MINI Living and Penda co-founder Dayong Sun explain how the micro home they built in Beijing references the city’s hutong neighbourhoods. Penda designed the tiny structure with MINI Living, as one of 10 conceptual homes that went on show for the China House Vision

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Plat Asia’s Forest Dining Club immerses diners in Chinese woodland

October 30, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Beijing-based architecture studio Plat Asia has completed a restaurant in the Chinese city of Qinhuangdao featuring three glass-walled dining rooms that look out onto a surrounding forest. Plat Asia, founded in 2010 by Baoyang Bian and Donghyun Jung, designed the Forest Dining Club for a site in the port city’s Aranya neighbourhood. The restaurant’s location on

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Golucci Interior Architects creates “simple and clean” fan shop in Beijing hutong

October 24, 2018 Ali Morris 0

A former house in Beijing’s old town is transformed into a specialist fan shop with a minimalist oak-lined interior, in this project by Golucci Interior Architects. Located at the end of a hutong – the tightly packed courtyard neighbourhoods that are typical in Beijing – the Jing Fan shop sits behind two mature locust trees. Raised slightly from

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Dezeen joins Assembly 2018 architecture and design forum in Beijing

October 24, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen is co-hosting a programme of talks and panel discussions exploring China’s burgeoning architecture and design scene in Beijing from 25 to 27 October. Read on for more details and to register to attend. Dezeen director Ben Hobson will present the story of Dezeen at the Assembly 2018 event on 26 October, before hosting a

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