Friendship Apartment by Onoaa Studio Turns a 1941 Shanghai Apartment Into a Home Built on Trust.Onoaa Studio didn't need a questionnaire to understand how their clients live, having shared meals and working days with them for years. The result is a Shanghai home without rigid, closed-off rooms, where work, conversation and time alone...
Inside Yeyeland, the Shanghai Concept Store That Turns Mineral Collecting Into an Edible Art Form.Founded by a group of young mineral collectors, Yeyeland set out to share that appreciation with a wider audience, pairing real geological specimens with desserts shaped like crystalline forms. Studio 4/301 built the whole spatial logic...
This Five-storey Office Features a Suspended Conference Capsule, Prototype Workshop and Raised R&D Lab.Designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group, MAX Zone Ningbo pairs a five-storey show office with a sales centre that draws on the elegance of traditional Chinese courtyards. The show office makes a statement from the start—a suspended conference...
A Garden in the Sky Becomes the Soul of This Ningbo Apartment.In Ningbo, China, a designer couple reimagined their top-floor apartment around an unlikely starting point: a three-metre-square garden open to the sky. The Inner Garden by OUTIN Design places two Japanese maples and wild ferns at the...
Ippolito Fleitz Group Designs a Next-Gen Workplace in China’s E-Commerce Capital.Ippolito Fleitz Group has turned a five-storey building in Hangzhou into a next-generation workplaces tailored to China's thriving e-commerce industry. The 2,200 square metre show office is designed to prove that work environments can be...
“The Future Ruin” Concept Transforms 1950s Beijing Chemical Plant Into Cycling Hub.Beijing's cycling scene has a new hero space. Aitashop's flagship by Yatofu Creatives occupies a transformed 1954 chemical plant in 751 D·PARK. The design preserves massive desulphurisation tanks as sculptural elements while creating...
Floating Canvases: Industrial Cool Meets Coffee Culture at Atelier tao+c’s Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund.Blue Bottle Coffee centres on floating ceiling planes that appear to flutter like canvases caught in river breezes, supported by angled timber columns. Smart integration of air conditioning and lighting within these sculptural elements...
A 1950s Beijing Forklift Factory Fosters Creative Synergy Between an Architecture Studio and a Modern Florist.A forgotten industrial 1950s cottage finds new life as a creative sanctuary in Beijing. Office AIO's renovation creates distinct zones for its architectural studio and modern florist Florette, maximising the 90-square-metre footprint...
Vector Architects’ Forest Spa Channels Bond-Worthy Sophistication in China’s Mountains.Nestled among poplar trees in China's Wuling Mountain, Vector Architects' Wulingshan Eye Stone Spring emerges as a concrete poetry of circles and grids. Elevated on columns, this spa sits in dialogue with nature through strategic glazing...
