This project is located in Hangzhou Zancheng Center, a building with square structure. It is close to the Qiantang River in the south, where attracts many famous international companies to settle in for office.
The owner is a company founder, who focuses on high-end clothing design and fabric. With the development of business, a new space is needed to show the persistence and brand spirit of materials and fabrics.
Dushan Mountain is the most iconic landmark in the region, and the gateway to Songyang County and its urban center.
The new leisure center is located at the triangular wetland at the foot of Dushan Mountain adjacent to the Songyin River, the mother river of Songyang County. It is also one of the key tourism projects of the Songyin River Scenic District Development, including a visitor center, water sports facilities, and a gym for water sports athletes.
Airport New Town, known as the “gateway” of Hangzhou City, is adjacent to Qiantang River, connected to the Asian Games Village and the Olympic Sports Center, and accessible to the “Airport Metro Line” under construction. Situated at the flourishing south bank of Qiantang River, it’s promoting airport-oriented development in tune with the times.
Founded in 1929, the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History is located in Hangzhou and has a collection of over 200,000 specimens covering geology, ecology and palaeontology. The eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang is the site of many important discoveries from the Cretaceous period. A new, second branch of the museum has been established in Anji, in the north of the region, forming the centrepiece of a new cultural district.
The new museum is set on a sloping site in a large natural park surrounded by bamboo forests and overlooking rice fields in the valley below. It comprises a loose infrastructure of spacious exhibition halls, taking into account the large scale of some of the exhibits: Dinosaur fossils and life-size models, large-scale wildlife dioramas, accompanied by multimedia and interactive exhibition elements.
Client: Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, People’s Government of Anji County
Partners: David Chipperfield, Mark Randel (Design lead), Libin Chen
Project Architects: Alessandro Milani (Competition), Miguel Angel (Preparation and brief to Developed design), Shen Huiwen (Developed design, Design intent details), Chuxiao Li (Site design supervision)
Project Team: Hans Christian Buhl, Zhexu Du, Tianyuan Fan, Jinghui Hou, Andrew Irvin, Han Li, Huiqun Liu, Jidi Pan, Fengjuan Sun, Nora Wuttke, Liping Xu, Zhixun Zhou; Visualisation: Andrew Irvin
The project is the sales center of Wings Hangzhou, a residential property developed by DoThink in Hangzhou, China. It’s situated in Chengdong New Area, which is closely connected to Wulin Commercial Hub and Qianjiang New Town. With favorable geographic location and convenient transportation network, Chengdong has become a core area in the future development plan of the city. DoThink identified the area’s great potential and located the property development Wings Hangzhou there. GFD, a local interior design firm, was entrusted to conceive the sales center.
Upon entering the sales center is the foyer. It’s paved with marble floorings characterized by bright hues and straight grain, which looks warm under the soft light. The sales control counter well combines the metal front surface featuring strips with the black granite presenting dynamic patterns, which showcases the contrast of solidness and flexibility and enriches sensory experiences in the space.
Located in Daixi, small town between Huzhou and Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, the site was formed by a gentle slope at the bottom side of a hill covered with tea fields and surrounded by bamboo forest.
The project consisted in the creation of a rose plantation used for cosmetics production along with a hospitality program including SPA, Hotel and Rose Museum.
The first phase started with a small building with few rooms and public spaces from which the rest of the project will be developed. A place where the site will be apprehended and understood.
STANCE, an American sports fashion brand, is featured for its brand declaration of The Uncommon Thread, aiming to make socks, the most common items in people’s daily life, excelsior. STANCE’s Punk & Poets culture attracts a large number of sports stars and leaders in the fashion industry, and its major partners include NBA, MLB (American Major League Baseball), NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) and Disney.
TOPOS DESIGN CLANS announced the latest project, a seafood restaurant in Yongqiang, Wenzhou, on the coast of East China Sea, with a theme inspired by the ocean beside the city. Shunfenglou Restaurant is a well-known old fashioned local seafood restaurant. On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of its founding, the owners of the restaurant have announced a bold innovation. They entrusted TOPOS DESIGN CLANS to reinvent the restaurant as a place with a fully renewed sensory dining experience. Drawing on the symphony “La Mer” composed by the French musician Claude Debussy, who is the impressionist music master in the early 20th century, the designers created a series of synesthetic experiences about the sea with the deconstructed space, and presented an impressionist symphony of blue sea for the new restaurant.
Y20 SPACE is located in the Hongyuan Park inside of the famous Hangzhou XiXi Wetland and surrounded by charming natural scenery and profound historical culture. This area is attracting a large number of small and medium enterprises, such as investment companies, Internet Co, and many start-up companies. When the owner AIcai Technology found us, they did not just want a work place, but more to create a space for office work, business conference, activities, presentations and exhibitions.