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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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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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Wave-shaped roofs top cultural space in Shanghai by Wutopia Lab

March 11, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has used wave-shaped roofs of blue aluminium and translucent fabric to transform an industrial yard in Shanghai into a mixed-use cultural space. Named Klein Blue Hills and White Cliff after its distinctive roofs, the project is part of a wider initiative to turn the former campus of the Shanghai Marine Instrument

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UNStudio unveils Huawei flagship store in Shanghai with “petal-like” facade

February 2, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed a two-storey flagship store for Chinese technology company Huawei in Shanghai with a facade clad in ivory-coloured petal-like forms. Drawing from Huawei’s global operating system, named Harmony, UNStudio’s design aimed to generate biophilic associations between the brand and its technology by integrating organic geometric shapes throughout the scheme. “Among the

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Wutopia Lab wraps Shanghai Book City in perforated aluminium

January 16, 2024 Alice Laycock 0

Perforated metal sheets form the facade of this renovated bookshop in Shanghai, China, which local studio Wutopia Lab has filled with 10,000 metres of shelving. Named Shanghai Book City, the 12,000-square-metre building has been overhauled to transform it from a traditional bookstore into a cultural hub and public landmark. According to Wutopia Lab, it is

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Neri&Hu highlights simplicity and functionality at Shanghai art gallery

December 6, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed a contemporary art gallery for Ota Fine Arts in Shanghai with a focus on the “sublime beauty of the banal”. The gallery sits on the ground floor of a mixed-use tower at Rockbund, a development amidst the historical Bund in Shanghai along the Huangpu River, where a series of restored

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RooMoo reuses distillery’s old whiskey barrels to decorate its bar

November 22, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Chinese interiors studio RooMoo has used nearly 6,000 pieces of oak from discarded distillery barrels to adorn this whiskey bar in Shanghai. Laizhou Bar is located in the city’s buzzy Xuhui District and is an offshoot of Laizhou Distillery, a Chinese whiskey producer based out of Sichuan province. The distillery prides itself on reducing its

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