Sited in Shijingshan, the fringe of Beijing, near the scared Western Hills, the Wuliepoch Life Experiment Center is a sales office for low rise residential developments at the foot of Western Hills. The project draws upon the heritage and inspirations of Western Hills, and presents a new definition for housing in contemporary Chinese metropolis.
The project encompasses a 1500sm of sales center and a 400sm of community skating rink, as a way to response to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The sales office includes model exhibition area, sample rooms, seating areas, bar and catering, a VIP lounge, staff offices, etc.
In 2017, one of China’s innovative education pioneers ETU EDUCATION commissioned Crossboundaries to design the first campus for the ETU School in Beijing, after starting off experimenting with their educational practice in a temporary space for about two years.
Shortly after Crossboundaries handed over the completed space, ETU School’s founder Mrs. Li Yinuo told us, that our children-centered design made the school extremely popular among the children, many of whom calling it “home”. When a former Finnish Counselor for Education at the Beijing Embassy came to visit the school, expressing that it was the first time they’d seen a Chinese school that felt very similar to Finnish Schools.
From a boiler room, this well-accepted school was transformed in just five months.
This is an interior remodeling project. The original building was designed by Liang Jingyu, an architect of renown in 1990s, which served as an adjunctive space to a well-known art institution back then. The floor plan of the architecture presents an asymmetric U-form, of which the south side of the space is long and narrow, the west side wider, and the south facade with French windows of a strong sense of sequence. The west side of the space is relatively upright and foursquare, to which, after repeated rentals and renovations, a second floor and an attached space had been added. The north side is shorter, a two-storeyed part serving as logistics space.
“San Sa”, formerly named as “The Third Hometown”, refers to a social space created for an introspective group of people who seek a space away from everyday life to recharge the mind, body, and spirit. The project is situated on a 2,000-square-meter unused plot of land, which was originally occupied by a gas station and about forty minutes’ walk from the Mutianyu Great Wall.
COFCO Plaza was built in 1996 and it occupies one of the best locations in the city; located 1 KM from the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square along Jianguomen Street at the cross with Chang’an Avenue.
In determining the strategy for the re-development of the building we built on our root focus on the concept of ‘innovation through renovation’ that has guided our previous work on many innovative heritage and modern building transformations. Kokaistudios has worked to enrich the urban fabric by the re-purposing and re-examination of the potential of existing buildings. In addition we worked closely with the COFCO team to understand their brand and their culture and design a project that embraced and translated this culture into a spatial experience.
Article source: ARCHISTRY Design & Research Office
“Vase House” is a dance studio. We hope it’s a place to teach and practice dancing, and an indoor “structure” that everyone could use, experience and get involved in through their body movements. Participants are encouraged to engage in body interaction. Hence, it is designed to be very soft with a small area. The notion of the circle is always implemented in the logic of the overall design. Through the combination of this basic shape, it naturally derives rooms with different functions, like lobby, dressing room, practice room, classroom, corridor, etc.
In order not to waste the area, the corridor and the leisure room are combined for mutual consideration, which brings about a more important function, that is, imitating the VIP private room in the classical theater with seats, short supporting walls, and windows. Multiple semicircles are connected in series on the plane to form a private corridor, which is convenient for “spectators” to sit in to have a rest, wait, and watch the “performance” in the dance studio at the same time.
Located on Lize Road in southwest Beijing, the Leeza SOHO tower anchors the new Fengtai business district – a growing financial and transport hub between the city centre and the recently opened Beijing Daxing International Airport to the south. The new business district is integral to Beijing’s multi-modal urban plan to accommodate growth without impacting existing infrastructure networks in the centre of the city.
This 45-storey 172,800m² tower responds to demand from small and medium-sized businesses for flexible and efficient Grade A office space Adjacent to the business district’s rail station at the intersection of five new lines currently under construction on Beijing’s Subway network, Leeza SOHO’s site is diagonally dissected by an underground subway service tunnel.
ZHA Project Associates: Kaloyan Erevinov, Ed Gaskin, Armando Solano
ZHA Project Team: Yang Jingwen, Di Ding, Xuexin Duan, Samson Lee, Shu Hashimoto, Christoph Klemmt, Juan Liu, Dennis Brezina, Rita Lee, Seungho Yeo, Yuan Feng, Zheng Xu, Felix Amiss, Lida Zhang, Qi Cao
Sealing Memories in Various Forms until the Light Approaches
Upon entering the door, in the center of cool and avant-garde solid wood floor stained with soft-stem bulrush, the long glass case is covered with warm light, and the moss decoration inside as the main material floats like a cloud. This set of planting art decoration was originally a chair stool. This space is surrounded by a beige gray façade and one end is hidden with a matte frosted acrylic screen. A blurred figure appeared from the opening similar to the ticket booth of the art museum. It turns out that it is a space starting point for traditional Chinese medicine treatment and SPA care testing.
The house is located in the north of Beijing at the foot of yanshan mountain. The building land is in a corner of the courtyard, bounded by a persimmon tree, about 60 square meters wide in front and narrow in back.
It was a persimmon garden here before, which’s trees age have been over hundred years. Standing in the garden you can feel a condensation of history. Thus the new house should be born and bred in these fields, full of life and nature.
La chansonnière is a high-end French restaurant designed by GB SPACE, featuring new media immersive dining experience. This project is located on the first floor, block B, Jiuxianqiao language and cultural center, Chaoyang district, Beijing. The total area of the project is 305 square meters.
The design inspiration comes from the moment when the sense of taste is stimulated by delicious food as if the water ripples in the mouth, evoking the senses throughout the body, fully immersed in the French gourmet experience with a long and lingering aftertaste. Using water as the main design element, the designers choose white color to keep the whole space pure and clean, just like the white canvas set off a feast and create a sense of ritual for the dining experience.
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