Shanghai

Offhand Practice creates glass-walled cafe in Shanghai park

September 17, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio Offhand Practice has completed the Mei Yuan Cafe, a glass-walled pavilion in Shanghai that allows visitors to “immerse themselves” in the surrounding park. Located within the previously inaccessible Mei Yuan Park in the district of Pudong, the slender structure of white steel and glass is designed to have as minimal impact on the

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Temp nestles charred-wood pavilion in rocky Shanghai garden

August 18, 2024 Katie Last 0

Chinese studio Temp has used charred wood to create 3-to-1 Pavilion, a triangular shelter nestled in a rocky garden in Shanghai. Intended as a sanctuary-like space for drinking tea and gathering, the pavilion has a geometric form with a triangular plan and louvred walls made from wooden frames. “The 3-to-1 Pavilion design is the integration

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen transforms cement factory into West Bund Art Center

July 18, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has adaptively reused a domed cement factory in Shanghai, China, to create a performing arts and sports venue. Now named West Bund Art Center, the factory’s central curved structure has been converted into a 300-square-metre multipurpose hall for art exhibitions, music concerts and sporting events. The renovated building, which

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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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Remix Studio elevates school campus in Shanghai on public podium

June 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Remix Studio has completed a campus for Futian High School in Shanghai, designed as a “city in the city” and linked by colourful walkways and bridges. The large campus, which measures over 120,000 square metres, was designed by Remix Studio to challenge the country’s typical hermetic educational architecture and create a more open

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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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Foster + Partners frames underground Apple Store in Shanghai with “active public space”

April 3, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A multi-level plaza and elevated viewpoint flank this Apple Store, which British architecture studio Foster + Partners has buried below ground in Shanghai’s Jing’an district. Named Apple Jing’an, the subterranean store is accessed by the plaza that links with existing pedestrian routes in a bid to establish it as an “active public space”, Foster +

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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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Longnan Garden estate in Shanghai wanted to escape the “virus” of boring Chinese housing

March 22, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Our next Social Housing Revival case study is Atelier GOM’s Shanghai Longnan Garden estate, the first social-housing project in China to abandon high-rise towers. Located in Shanghai’s central Xuhui district, the 100,000-square-metre Longnan Garden estate was completed in 2017. Commissioned by the district’s state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission as low-rent housing, it comprises one commercial

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Foster + Partners draws on “historic water towns” for Shanghai neighbourhood

March 12, 2024 Starr Charles 0

British architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled plans for the Xicen Science and Technology Centre, a mixed-use development located within the Yangtze River Delta region in Shanghai, China. Informed by the region’s historic water towns, the development by Foster + Partners will utilise the site’s new and existing waterways to create a “waterside community”

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