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Jade + QA unveils “groundscraper” hotel in Chinese quarry

January 25, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Quarry hotel: Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental Hotel in China by Jade+QA

The Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental hotel has opened within a 88-metre-deep abandoned quarry near Shanghai. Designed by London- and Shanghai based Jade + QA, the 337-room hotel descends 16 storeys below ground level within the former quarry and is described by the studio as a groundscraper. Architect Martin Jochman created the concept for the quarry hotel while working

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Shanghai restaurant by Office Coastline is a “gentle sequence of spaces”

January 20, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of Genshang restaurant designed by Office Coastline

A copper facade frames the grey stone interior of this dining and retail space in Shanghai designed by local firm Office Coastline. Located on the first floor of a commercial complex on Madang Road in downtown Shanghai, the 198-square-metre venue belongs to lifestyle brand Genshang and combines a shop, tea bar, dining area and lounge

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Linehouse adds elevated tearooms in a warehouse for Tingtai Teahouse in Shanghai

January 4, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Interiors of Tingai Teahouse in Shanghai, China, designed by Linehouse

Huge elevated boxes creates private tearooms inside this cafe in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by locally based studio Linehouse. Tingtai Teahouse is situated inside an old factory space in Shanghai’s Moganshan Road arts district, which was abandoned and inhabited by artists for almost two decades. The new box rooms create a degree of seclusion in the vast

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Yiduan Shanghai completes serene HQ in Shanghai for local clothing brand Hemu

December 15, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Interior design firm Yiduan Shanghai has transformed a 1960s building in Shanghai into a “zen-like” HQ for Hemu, a local clothing brand. Located in the Jiading District of Shanghai, the original 1960s building was built as an annexe of Huilongtan Park – a picturesque park with a 400-year history. Made from timber, grey bricks and

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OFFICE COASTLINE Have Recently Completed A Modern Tea House In Shanghai

December 3, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Alessandro Wang   OFFICE COASTLINE have recently completed a new tea house in the city of Shanghai, China, for the life-style brand “Genshang”.   Named the GENSHANG Restaurant, the facade is framed by copper, an interpretation of their brand color, while the entryway is recessed and open to the side. Photography by Alessandro Wang […]

Archi-Union uses “cyborg fabrication” to build Venue B conference centre in 100 days

November 23, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Archi-Union Architects has completed a conference centre on Shanghai’s West Bund in just 100 days, using robot-assisted design and construction. Called Venue B, the centre was built to host an AI (artificial intelligence) conference. Because of this, Archi-Union felt it was appropriate to use innovative digital construction techniques in the building’s creation. This follows the ethos

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Office AIO’s Bar Lotus in Shanghai turns from daytime cafe into evening cocktail bar

November 20, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Emerald green walls and rippling rose gold ceilings feature inside Bar Lotus in Shanghai designed by Office AIO, which transitions from a coffee shop by day into a cocktail bar at night. Situated on the sycamore tree-lined neighbourhood of Jing’an in Shanghai, Bar Lotus can be found at the end of a 100-metre-long monolithic block of single-storey

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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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Foster + Partners breaks ground on Shanghai skyscraper

September 25, 2018 India Block 0

Work has begun on a 200-metre-high office tower designed by Foster + Partners in Shanghai, as part of a regeneration programme in the east of the city. The 42-storey tower is being built for property development company China Resources Land in the Shanghai’s Suhewan district. It will be the first office tower in this primarily

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