Collaborating with creative agency LOVE, The Johnnie Walker House is an experiential, interactive space created to host the most sophisticated ‘Whisky Conversations’. Housed in the 3-storey Sinan Mansion, located in the heart of Shanghai’s Central Business District, the space was conceived with the intent to engage and advocate loyalty amongst premium whisky drinkers. The concept incorporates the rich history of Johnnie Walker and whisky knowledge alongside essential elements and building blocks of whisky into the spatial design, using the 3-step approach to evangelism.
Containing 2.8 million square meters of office, hotel, retail, and conference center facilities, the Rongsheng project will contain a city within a city. The mixed-use complex consists of two towers, for office and hotel functions, and a retail/entertainment podium. The towers are sculpted with a combination of concave and convex geometries that taper to give the towers a distinct profile. The curtain wall cladding strategy consists of a series of repetitive unitized curtain wall panels that appear to fade from the bottom to the top.
The ‘Brownstone’ is a cocktail lounge located in the Surpass Court of Yonjia Lu 570, emerging epicenter of Shanghai night life. It was developed as a prototype for a venue of new concept in co-operation with ‘Blue Horizon Hospitality Group’ (Blue Frog).
The Australian pavilion has been designed to read in its surrounds as a bold sculptural form, both modern and organic. Set in a stark abstract landscape of the World Expo Site, the sensuous ribbon of the facade generates an undulating form which is designed to have no obvious front, rear or sides. The prominent entry is articulated by a large glazed tear and illuminated signage. The form varies dramatically as one moves through the surrounding streets.
Built on a brownfield of a former industrial site, Houtan Park is a regenerative living landscape on Shanghai’s Huangpu riverfront. The park’s constructed wetland, ecological flood control, reclaimed industrial structures and materials, and urban agriculture are integral components of an overall restorative design strategy to treat polluted river water and recover the degraded waterfront in an aesthetically pleasing way.
70 Million expected visitors were welcomed by the entrance building of Stuttgart architects SBA International on EXPO 2010.
On 1 May 2010, EXPO 2010 was opened in Shanghai. The EXPO-AXIS presents itself to visitors as a colourful symbol of the world exhibition and the town of Shanghai. With a length of almost 1000 meters and a width of more than 100, the EXPO-AXIS reaches from the main entrance square across the complete EXPO area and down to the banks of the Huangpu river. It is one of five buildings that will remain standing after the world exhibition to later form the centre of a new quarter of Shanghai.
Lunar pop-up store is a modular system design for a pop-up store that hosts products for daily life on the Moon it is commissioned by a private European art institution.
This project was born in 2006 when a Singaporean movie director and an ex musician from south of China decided to open a live bar in Shanghai. The budget was very low but the client was incredibly good and open-minded to us.
Kokaistudios announced the opening of the landmark Miele House in Shanghai in November, 2010. The first exclusive Miele showroom in Mainland China and also the first Miele House among the Miele world, the space is designed not only as a showcase of its products but also an area to express the company philosophy and make people experience its core values.
Throughout history, World Exhibitions have shown the latest inventions in technology alongside the latest expressions of art. From this perspective, the Air Tree for ecosistema urbano client Fundación Madrid Global emerges as an experimental prototype of intervention in contemporary urban public space, capable of reactivating sites and creating the conditions to empower the use of the collective space. It is conceived as a technological urban furniture, a self-sufficient climatic comfort generator, that is being used not only as a breathing space but interactively as well.
Project Team: Belinda Tato | Jose Luis Vallejo | Michael Moradiellos | Domenico di Siena | Ion Cuervas-Mons | Jaime Eizaguirre | Luisa Zancada | Benjamín Castro | Masatoshi Oka | Johannes Kettler | Javier de Paz | Julia Casado
Shanghai Design Direction: Jose Luis Vallejo | Ion Cuervas-Mons
Climatic Control / Simulation Engineering / Energy concept: AST ingeniería | Jose Luis Suarez | Roberto Suarez
email
Facebook
Twitter
RSS Feed
