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Dezeen to host Global China architecture and design exhibition in Shanghai

September 24, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Dezeen has curated an exhibition during the World Design Cities Conference in Shanghai to showcase works by Chinese and international architects and designers that successfully bridge east and west. Titled Global China: Connecting the World Through Design, the exhibition will take place from 27 to 30 September in Shanghai. It will feature six architecture and

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s Beijing Art Centre evokes the site’s granary history

September 8, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a multi-functional art centre in Beijing, referencing the shape of a granary that once occupied the site. Located in the Tongzhou district in east Beijing, China, the centre sits near the starting point of the over 2,500-year-old Grand Canal and comprises an opera house, a theatre and

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Various Associates creates irregular pyramid-shaped flagship store for DJI

September 3, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Chinese interior studio Various Associates has completed an irregular pyramid-shaped flagship store for drone brand DJI in Shenzhen, China. Located at OCT Harbour on the shores of Shenzhen Bay, the flagship store was designed to demonstrate the Chinese drone company’s latest technology. The 4000-square-metre store contains spaces for product display, a gallery, customer service area and

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Atelier Tao+C creates “luminous” bookshop in Chinese ski resort

August 11, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has completed a light-filled bookshop with a timber roof at a ski report in northern China for local retailer Naïve. Located in the ski resort of Aranya Chongli in northern China, the bookshop was built within an existing concrete frame. A grid of steel and timber frameworks were inserted in between

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IM Pei retrospective shows “architecture and life to be inseparable”

August 7, 2024 Christina Yao 0

A retrospective of architect IM Pei at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, aims to examine his architectural projects in social, cultural and political context. Named IM Pei: Life is Architecture, the exhibition, which according to the museum is the first full-scale retrospective of the Chinese American architect, documented Pei’s seven-decade long career. Curated by

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Neri&Hu animates gridded Taipei apartment block with arched screens

July 24, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has completed a residential building in Taiwan that features a gridded facade filled with inverted-arch screens. Located on a former US military base in Taipei, the apartment block is intended to echo the community feel and slower pace of life in the district, contrasting the city’s bustling commercial areas. It is

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Ole Scheeren reveals plans for Shenzhen skyscrapers with “waterfall” facades

July 18, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed Scenic City, its design for the headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com, which will feature facades designed to resemble waterfalls. The project is located in Nanshan District in Shenzhen, China, a newly established business and financial hub where several Chinese tech giants will reside. The site will comprise

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Linehouse defines Shanghai office with “unexpected combinations of materials”

July 12, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Interior design studio Linehouse has renovated an office in Shanghai using numerous materials and art from a local gallery. Linehouse refurbished the ground floor of a three-storey building in Shanghai that The Independents global marketing group have occupied in Shanghai for numerous years. The 374-square-metre space was designed as a communal area for the staff

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Neri&Hu creates “wooden hut” and “cave-dwelling” interiors for Shanghai stores

May 9, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has completed two retail spaces for Shanghai fabric and fashion company Jisifang, using wood and concrete to evoke “a more primitive state of being”. The two adjacent stores are located at Panlong Tiandi development in Shanghai. One was designed for Jisifang Boutique and the other for its sister brand Woven Moonlight, also

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Linehouse creates greenhouse-informed food market in Shanghai

March 28, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio Linehouse has wrapped a food market in a Shanghai laneway neighbourhood around a central atrium informed by Victorian greenhouses. Named Foodie Social, the 2,000-square-metre food market is located within the Hong Shou Fang community – a residential area in Shanghai’s Putuo district known for its classic “longtang” laneway architecture. The entrance to the two-storey

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