A shop renewal commission by JINS Co., Ltd., Japanese eyewear brand, and designed by architect, Junya Ishigami. Located in one of the landmarks buildings, Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC), in Lujiazui financial district.
To create a huge emptiness within the crowded shopping mall and present the interior space more like an architecture work, a simple solution for the store came up:
Hunan Lu Villa is an exclusive residence located in Shanghai, which Vudafieri- Saverino Partners – architectural studio based both in Milan and also in Shanghai – has reinterpreted defining an unheard-of balance between oriental evocation and western nuances.
The project represents a perfect combination between two distinctive traditions – Chinese and western – and of the long history of their relationships: inside antique artefacts, artworks and ritual spaces coexist in perfect harmony with western “objects of desire”, neither doming the other. It is precisely for these characteristics that Hunan Lu Villa has recently been awarded the prize of best project in the Private Housing category at the Archmarathon Awards 2018.
The building in Mandela project has a brick-concrete structured warehouse and was renovated in the 1980s. In 2014, it was again renovated and reinforced with additional steel structures. The original concrete walls and its patched texture have been well preserved and covered with clear glass, which created an effect of two textures collage. The staircase, as the media for emotional and functional interactions, becomes the most important element in this whole space.
The area of intelligent medical islands is 34 hectares. Once constructed, the project will be the demonstration base of Shanghai intelligent medical innovation, creating more than 500,000 sqm working area for intelligent medicine subdivisions such as intelligent apparatus, precision medicine, testing and R&D, Stem Cell and Regenerative Research, etc.
Located in Songjiang, Shanghai, DISHAN Space is a brand of collective space aimed to provide all sorts of recreational experience, where people meet to nibble snacks, sip fruit tea, play games and have fun . Considering the site is close to Songjiang Court built from Yuan dynasty, we hope to integrate the modern style into the traditional. After careful analysis, we decide to use the basic shapes that constitute nature, that is, rectangle, circle and triangle, to present an all-compassing DISHAN space.
TOWOdesign Studio, which excels in reconstruction of commercial space in information era, created two subversive showrooms for Chinese wood flooring brand TREESSUN. Through recombination of exhibits, arts, space and time, the flooring exhibition was transformed into a large interactive installation with unique aesthetic image.
Xuhui Runway Park is an innovative urban revitalization project that traces the history of the urban development of Shanghai. Formerly a runway for Longhua Airport, the park’s design scheme mimics the motion of a runway, creating diverse linear spaces for vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians by organizing the park and the street into one integrated runway system. While all the spaces are linear in shape, diverse spatial experiences are created by applying different materials, scales, topography, and programs. In this way, the park serves as a runway of modern life, providing a space for recreation and respite from the surrounding city.
INKWOOD Restaurant & Bar is the first restaurant opened by young chef Yang Beichuan, located in Shanghai Columbia Circle. Despite his youth, Beichuan is already a well-known professional who received his training as cook in Canada, where he worked together with some of the most renowned chefs of Montreal. Beichuan is a mixture of Eastern and Western cultures, who has spent half of his life running through Beijing Hutong, and other half switched to the kitchen of western restaurants in North America. He likes to use local ingredients to cook innovative international cuisine.
ABInbev, a global consumer packaged goods giant, approached ASIG Design to design, develop and realize their Goose Island Brewhouse in Shanghai, China as a part of their multi-country global rollout. Located at a highly anticipated new site in the heart of Shanghai, the historically sensitive Shikumen style building took center stage that nods to local Chinese beer culture and fluidly juxtaposed interior elements of the brand’s stong Chicago roots.
RoarcRenew renovated the space of Carlowitz & Co., (third to fifth floor) located in Middle Jiangxi Road, into a unique co-working space. The original building was built in 1898 with large natural stones and red ganged bricks. It was the biggest architecture among all public concession buildings in Shanghai. In recent years, it was reconstructed from the original wooden structure to a steel structured building. In this project, Roarc Renew kept the original structure, concrete walls and the architectural texture.