Imafuku Architects was commissioned to design a new flagship store for Beijing’s emerging salad restaurant chain Shubo. The theme of their existing restaurants was sports, featuring sporting equipment such as surfboards, bicycles and bouldering walls as ornaments under the slogan of “Keep Calorie Low.” The concept for the flagship located within Lenovo headquarters was to create a new branded spatial language, while referring to the previous sports theme.
Beijing Daxing International Airport is a new airport in the Daxing district 46km south of the city centre (20 minutes by express train).
Developed to alleviate congestion at the capital’s existing airport, Beijing Daxing will be a major transport hub for the region with the world’s fastest growing demand for international travel and is fully integrated within the country’s expanding transport network.
Initially serving 45 million passengers per year, Beijing Daxing will accommodate 72 million travellers by 2025 and is planned for further expansion to serve up to 100 million passengers and 4 million tonnes of cargo annually.
Design Concept – Green life • blending into nature
Yanqing District is located about 75 km north-west of Beijing. It is home to the popular Badaling section of the Great Wall. It is not only rich in historical sites and natural landscape but also the outdoor attractions. The district will host the International Horticultural Expo in 2019 and Winter Olympics in 2022. It is a popular destination for all kinds of travelers.
Hyatt Regency Beijing Shiyuan is designed to create a green life living, blending into nature in order to obtain the sensation experience of living surrounded by the mountain, river, lake, wild birds and flowers.
An auction house is a hybrid between museum, gallery, market – culture and trading. An auction house links past, present, and future. Ultimately, an auction house celebrates and passes on awareness of history and traditions; it provides a stage for cultural values: respect and responsibility, valuation and prediction, beauty and meaning. An auction house attracts and gathers people and auctions are social events for the appreciation of art and culture. The building acts as a social catalyst for cultural exchange and imagines a home for the arts in a broader sense – a home for its makers (the artists) and its keepers (the collectors).
Standing dominantly at the second largest CBD in Beijing, the Da Wang Jing Mixed-use Development designed by Andrew Bromberg at Aedas, is a dynamic commercial gateway at junction of the arterial expressway from the airport to central Beijing and the North 5th Ring Road, where it can be seen from distance like a shining urban oasis. The design juxtaposes the staid image of Grade A offices and corporate headquarters together with an amicable spatial experience to all users, making a vivid interpretation on Andrew Bromberg’s concept of “co-existence of people and nature”.
The five towers of the development are sensibly distant from one another, providing generous public spaces with greenery extending all the way to the Wangjing Park north to site. The design aims to accentuate its relationship to the surrounding greeneries, guaranteeing maximum permeability and encouraging public access. With its soft flowing garden-like temperament, the development easily distinguishes itself from the hustle and bustle of the surrounding commercial neighborhood as a truly human-scaled architectural expression.
Hutong, poses the question of how we can reinstate a discourse on the reinvigoration of ancient city spaces. We avoided inserting intrusive programs into the courtyard house, deflected from the idea of merely switching out old doors and windows, and refrained ourselves from the plagiary of a faux-Wabi-Sabi-esque atmosphere that is in fashion amongst the Chinese bourgeoisie. We challenged ourselves to look for new perspectives apart from the banal and overused stylistics and tastes.
In actuality, urban renewal is not a solely aesthetic issue. What it needs is the renewal of spatial relationships to revive and attract new human usage. This project was faced with hindrance from multiple parties, complicated and layered bureaucracies presented arduous limitations to the design.
Time passing, life changing, more and more possibilities coming up, all these have directly and drastically left marks on Beijing Hutong, which seems to be history, but for me, it’s more like future.
The site lies among mountains, with nice pine trees scenery in the distance. The site has two platforms with a height difference of about 1.8 meters, on which several large trees and young trees grow. The original buildings on the site are enclosed on three sides: a two-floor building on the west side and two one-floor buildings on the north and south sides.
The construction of the Minsheng Museum of Modern Art in Beijing, the biggest private museum in China, was financed by the Minsheng Bank. The museum building is a converted former Panasonic factory built in 1979. We used the factory hall with its simple concrete skeleton structure and modular façade almost as found, adding only a few interventions to make the new use visible. The museum design divides the building volume into different functions, which are supported by an external courtyard-like space, a roof terrace and a sculpture park. The renovation preserved the industrial character of the building, contrasting this in occasional places with new materials. The strongest intervention was needed for a new lobby that signals the entrance from the outside. It consists of interlocking cubes that blend together to form a multi-storey space. Generous, conical stairways are illuminated by skylights, and encourage informal use. The three exhibition rooms, the courtyard and the book-store are accessed from the lobby. Additional functions, including the auditorium, media library, cafeteria and restaurant are accessed from a corridor along the courtyard.
Yongnian Food Market, an old food market in Shanghai.
The road and the food market, which are located in multiple neighborhoods, have forty years of history. People here have become accustomed to them. As time changes, the road needs demolition and the food market over the road also needs upgrading.
We believe that one thing never changes regardless of demolition or transformation, Luwan or Huangpu, enlarging urban space or moving populations, that is, better city better life starts from Expo 2010 will never end.
Design Team Members: xu leqian, lu huiqin, sheng mengxuan, yang junyi, wu yejing
Construction Consultants: tang yuanhua from aoyang demonstration tool plant, and zhang chenghua from shanghai jielu decoration Design engineering co., ltd.
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