Elle Cafe / OFFICE AIO
Designed by OFFICE AIO, Beijing’s new fashion cafe is Elle Cafe’s second location in China. With an inverted T-shaped floor plan, the designers conceived a French sidewalk dining experience inside a shopping mall.
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The Wing of Swallow / TJAD Original Design Studio
The Wing of Swallow is located on the north bank of the middle section of Maozhou River in Baoan District, Shen Zhen. With the theme of children’s playground, it integrates various functions and landscape venues. It is a three-dimensional amusement park integrating amusement, rest and viewing.
Project N.0378 Exhibition / AIM Architecture
Project No.0378 by AIM ARCHITECTURE, is an exhibition that offers an insight into architecture, interior design, and furniture projects. An invitation to understand the design journey, of AIM’s founders: Wendy Saunders & Vincent de Graaf.
The exhibition is inspired by buildings and their future: their ambiguity, ever-changing – always questioning.
ToSummer Aromatherapy Experience / F.O.G. Architecture
The new oriental original aromatherapy brand “ToSummer” announces its first off-line flagship store, the “ToSummer living room”, located on the ground floor of Taikoo Li North District, Sanlitun, Beijing. With its inviting combination of streamline and curved surfaces, the design transforms the 170m² space while leading visitors to naturally follow a circular flow. With the extensive use of mirror effects combined with continued light, naturalistic materials, and colors to enhance the ambiance of the space, visitors stop and linger to savor the experience. This is exactly the “living room” atmosphere that the owners sought to create – to inspire an emotional feeling between domestic and social, communication and comfort.
Mogan Valley Yimutian / gad·line+ studio
The project is located at the eastern foot of Mogan Mountain in Deqing City. The site retains the texture of the existing farmland and the long valley tourist corridor, and the outline of the site takes on an irregular shape, measuring about 109 meters from north to south and 112 meters from east to west. The total land area is about 10,000 square meters. The overall height of the slope increases from west to east and from north to south. In this project, we tried to break through the experience-based community under the real estate model, and realize the reconstruction of contemporary settlements and the shaping of new life social vacation carriers.
Renovation of Hangzhou Old Chemical Fiber Factory / LYCS Architecture
Located in Blue Peacock Block, Gongshu District, Hangzhou, the renovation project’s planning, architecture, landscape, interior and soft decoration are both designed by LYCS Architecture. It contains two parts, the office and the city park.
Yujidao Park / BLVD International
New Ecological Axis-Jialing Pearl Riverside
Nanbu County, Nanchong is known as the “Second City of Chengdu-Chongqing Circle” in Sichuan.”A history of the south, the love of water through the ages”, for thousands of years, the water of the Jialing River has been rushing here, nourishing everything, and the people of northern Sichuan have thrived here and compose a glorious chapter. In the principle of respecting nature and advancing into the future, the design puts forward the concept of “Jialing Pearl, Brilliant Riverside”. It introduces the Jialing River water into the site to create Nanbu Shuicheng where the city is on the water and the water is in the city, creating a closer and intuitive experience for people’s water activities.
YingYao Sandware Museum Complex / a9architects
The black sandware art inherited for 2000 years, the art and wisdom of fire and earth were passed down in Yingjing. Yingjing County Silk Road Shadu Complex Project is a strategic measure to build a “National Eco-cultural Tourism Integration Development Pilot Zone and a National Comprehensive Tourism Demonstration Zone” in Ya’an City under the background of this new era. Surrounding the core resources of black sand intangible cultural heritage, the design built a unique cultural tourism brand in the region.
Spatial Design of the Exhibition Fashioned from Nature / Studio 10
The spatial design of the exhibition Fashioned from Nature co-curated by the Victoria & Albert Museum （V&A）, China Silk Museum, guest curator Edith Cheung and Design Society is an abstract yet poetic interpretation and comparison of the Eastern and Western Views of Nature, as well as the evolution from classical through contemporary garden spaces. The exhibition consists of two sections: “FASHIONED FROM NATURE” curated by the V&A Museum and Design Society narrates the complex relationship between fashion specific to human society and nature since the 16th century, with reflections as well as an emphasis on environmental sensitivity and preservations, while the FASHIONED FROM NATURE IN CHINA: THEN AND NOW Section is an echo to the theme in the east.
Tongzhou SINLOON Canal Creative District / officePROJECT
Restrictions and great opportunities – opening a 30 years old compound in Tongzhou CBD. The project is based in North gate, Tongzhou. Tongzhou is a typically urbanized, yet low-density area with suburban texture, this area not only has a complex social system but also has a unique, independent natural atmosphere surrounding it. Our base formerly known as Fimet Metal Fabrication is located at this geographical point that it looks out across the river from the Tongzhou Canal CBD. But our bases are less accessible, submerged in a residential area.