Showroom

Since establishing a partnership with China’s leading premium EV automaker NIO by the scenic West Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in 2017, SHL has successfully shaped several NIO Houses (NIO’s flagship store), including NIO’s international expansion in Oslo, followed by Shanghai HKRI Taikoo Hui, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich. SHL has yet again partnered with NIO to create a new milestone flagship, the NIO House | Hefei Xinqiao Industrial Park. A new circular pavilion merges the ‘front stage’ customer experience with the ‘backstage’ manufacturing process, providing NIO users and business partners with an immersive insight into the NIO way of life and its advanced manufacturing prowess.

Born as a contrast amidst the urban hustle and bustle, the project is located on one of the busiest avenues in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. During our first visit to the land, we came across a Brazilwood tree, a witness of time, which we took as an initial premise, further valuing and enhancing its position.

Within an existing warehouse, an exhibition, work, and storage space was created for the fabric brand.

The Castelatto Pavilion was implemented in the company’s industrial complex, located outside the urban area of Atibaia, surrounded by low hills and green areas. The production warehouses occupy a significant part of the land, but there are also preserved green areas and a riparian forest along the stream that surrounds the property. Between the riparian forest and the warehouses, a proportionate area was designated for the construction of the Pavilion, due to its representative and institutional character.

With a legacy of craft, technology, and singular ideas since 1962, FLOS is in the business of light. FLOS commissioned Arquitectura G and Sam Chermayeff Office to collaborate on a showroom for their products, spotlighting their fundamental presence, light itself. The new FLOS Amsterdam showroom is literally an arrangement of surfaces that receive, highlight, and begin a dialogue with light.

Rounge, A Furniture brand that began with an inevitable connection to trees – Nestled on Yangjae-daero, the building stands concealed by a stretch of plane trees. Once inside, vast windows reveal sweeping views of towering plane trees, offering a shifting sequence at each level. Ascending to the rooftop of this five-story structure, plane tree leaves touch the sky and rustle in the wind. Greenery envelops the middle floors, creating an immersion in the leafy expanse. On the second floor, the sturdy tree trunk and branches, and on the first floor, the thick tree trunk and the plants in the earthy soil create shadows as they are lit by the sunlight. This layered sequence of trees naturally leads one to imagine the roots in the soil.

The original client request was for the design of a sales showroom for a large-scale urban development that will include a shopping center as well as residential and office towers to be built in several stages. This development has the particularity of being located at the foot of hills with direct views of the emblematic Tangamanga Park.