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Take a tour of Shanghai via our new Pinterest board

March 10, 2019 Fiona Hartley 0

To coincide with Design Shanghai, we’ve curated a Pinterest board celebrating the best architecture and design that the city has to offer, including a shopping centre with a tessellating diamond facade by UNStudio and iridescent furniture created from …

Wutopia Lab wraps visitor centre with striped wall inspired by nautical shirts

February 14, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Striped house by Wutopia

Shanghai-based architecture studio Wutopia Lab has revamped a tourism company’s entrance office into the Striped House visitor centre in Qinhuangdao, China. Striped House acts as both a visitor information centre and concierge office for the Aranya tourism company on a resort near the port city of Qinhuangdao, on the coast of China’s northeastern Hebei province. Wutopia Lab rebuilt

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World’s longest 3D-printed concrete bridge opens in Shanghai

February 5, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A team led by professor Xu Weiguo at the Tsinghua University School of Architecture in Beijing has 3D-printed a 26.3-metre-long concrete bridge, which they claim is the world’s longest. The 3.6-metre-wide pedestrian bridge, which spans a canal in Shanghai’s Baoshan District, was installed earlier this year. It was designed by Tsinghua University School of Architecture’s Zoina Land Joint

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This Teahouse Was Designed With Elevated Private Rooms

February 1, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Dirk Weiblen   Architecture firm Linehouse, have recently completed the Tingtai Teahouse, that’s located within a former factory space and art gallery in Shanghai’s art district of Moganshan Road. The client, a tea enthusiast, sought to create a traditional Chinese teahouse with a modern aesthetic.   Entering Tingtai Teahouse from the street, a staircase is […]

Jade + QA unveils “groundscraper” hotel in Chinese quarry

January 25, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Quarry hotel: Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental Hotel in China by Jade+QA

The Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental hotel has opened within a 88-metre-deep abandoned quarry near Shanghai. Designed by London- and Shanghai based Jade + QA, the 337-room hotel descends 16 storeys below ground level within the former quarry and is described by the studio as a groundscraper. Architect Martin Jochman created the concept for the quarry hotel while working

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Shanghai restaurant by Office Coastline is a “gentle sequence of spaces”

January 20, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of Genshang restaurant designed by Office Coastline

A copper facade frames the grey stone interior of this dining and retail space in Shanghai designed by local firm Office Coastline. Located on the first floor of a commercial complex on Madang Road in downtown Shanghai, the 198-square-metre venue belongs to lifestyle brand Genshang and combines a shop, tea bar, dining area and lounge

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Linehouse adds elevated tearooms in a warehouse for Tingtai Teahouse in Shanghai

January 4, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Interiors of Tingai Teahouse in Shanghai, China, designed by Linehouse

Huge elevated boxes creates private tearooms inside this cafe in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by locally based studio Linehouse. Tingtai Teahouse is situated inside an old factory space in Shanghai’s Moganshan Road arts district, which was abandoned and inhabited by artists for almost two decades. The new box rooms create a degree of seclusion in the vast

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Yiduan Shanghai completes serene HQ in Shanghai for local clothing brand Hemu

December 15, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Interior design firm Yiduan Shanghai has transformed a 1960s building in Shanghai into a “zen-like” HQ for Hemu, a local clothing brand. Located in the Jiading District of Shanghai, the original 1960s building was built as an annexe of Huilongtan Park – a picturesque park with a 400-year history. Made from timber, grey bricks and

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