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Shanghai’s Canal St shop is styled like the New York subway

April 15, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Canal St store by Sò Studio

A subway car-style corridor, worn concrete walls and metal railings feature inside this Shanghai clothing shop, which Sò Studio has designed to emulate New York. Canal St offers a selection of high-end streetwear and was designed by locally-based Sò Studio to “bring the downtown New York lifestyle to Shanghai”. The studio believes the two major

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Foster + Partners reveals visuals for gridded Alibaba Shanghai headquarters

January 8, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Alibaba Shanghai headquarters proposal by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners has unveiled a proposal for Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba’s headquarters in Shanghai that will be built within a giant grid. Alibaba Shanghai will be manufactured off-site before being built on Xuhui Riverside, where it will overlook the Huangpu River and Pudong Central Business District. Foster + Partners designed the Alibaba headquarters alongside a giant

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Shanghai’s Single Person gallery is designed to resemble a cave

December 17, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Single Person gallery in Shanghai by Offhand Practice

Architecture studio Offhand Practice created textured walls and faux skylights within this Shanghai design gallery to evoke the feeling of being inside a cave. Situated along a main road in Shanghai’s Xuhui district, the Single Person gallery is made up of a sequence of cave-like rooms. When Offhand Practice first visited the site in November

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China Design [Working Title] highlights work by “young and aspirational generation” of designers

December 12, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
china design [working title]

Furniture by designers including Joyce Wang and Mario Tsai is on show at this Shanghai exhibition organised by contemporary art and design platform The Artling. Titled China Design [Working Title] and curated by creative consultant Yoko Choy, the exhibition opened at The Artling’s gallery space in the central Jing’an district to coincide with two major

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Two robotic fabrication methods entwine to make Tongji University bridge

November 29, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Two robotic fabrication methods entwine to make Tongji University bridge

Thin carbon fibres wind over a 3D-printed metal frame to form this hybrid bridge, made by university students in Shanghai using two emerging robotic fabrication techniques. Students participating in the DigitalFUTURES International 2019 summer workshop at Tongji University worked with local research studio Fab-Union to design the bridge, which can hold more than 20 people.

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Heatherwick Studio reveals 1,000 Trees nearing completion in Shanghai

November 12, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
New photos of 1,000 Trees by Heatherwick Studio near completion in China

Heatherwick Studio has released photography of its plant-covered 1,000 Trees development in Shanghai, which has had its scaffolding removed. Split across two sites beside the city’s M50 arts district, 1,000 Trees will be two mountain-like peaks that contain a mix of retail, offices, eateries, event venues and galleries. The latest images unveiled by Heatherwick Studio

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White steel and mirrored halls form sci-fi themed architectural model museum in China

October 31, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
The Last Redoubt: first architectural model museum by Wutopia Lab

Wutopia Lab has used over 5,000 white steel pipes to form the structure of The Last Redoubt, China’s first museum for architectural models. Steel walkways connect rooms lined with thin white columns, where the models are displayed on floating white shelves at different levels. Designed by for exhibition company Fengyuzhu, the museum is divided into

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Open Architecture converts airport fuel tanks into gallery spaces

April 7, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
TANK Shanghai by OPEN Architecture in China

Five aviation fuel containers on the former Longhua airport in Shanghai have been transformed into art and culture park Tank Shanghai, by local studio Open Architecture. Open Architecture has created 60,000 square metres of gallery space on the former industrial site, for Chinese collector Qiao Zhibing. Tank Shanghai sits atop a landscaped “super-surface” – a newly constructed ground

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Atelier Tao + C uses wooden structure to divide U-shape Room in Shanghai

April 3, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
U-shape Room by Atelier Tao+C

A plywood volume that contains sleep, study and bathing spaces adds structure to this unusually-shaped Shanghai apartment, which architecture studio Atelier Tao+C has recently overhauled. Fronted by a huge bay window that curve out from its front facade, the aptly named U-shape Room apartment has been overhauled to feature a multifunctional wooden volume that Atelier

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Cityscapes inform interiors of Shanghai fashion store Assemble by Réel

March 25, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Assemble by Réel store in Shanghai, designed by Kokaistudios

Skate ramp-style fitting rooms and church-like archways feature inside this menswear store in Shanghai, which Kokaistudios has designed to reflect the “eclecticism” of city life. Assemble by Réel, which sells high-end menswear, has been designed to take customers on “a journey through an eclectic, curated assortment of styles and lifestyles”. The 1,037-square-metre store occupies the third

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