Since the birth of architecture, humans have had containers to capture light. The brilliance of light makes the world pure, while its shadows flow in the pure space, with varying depths, twists and turns, and even swaying ripples or waves that trap the observer's mind. Such shadows give space a multidimensional overlay, creating worlds beyond the w...
Project name
Jihuayuan Crystal Valley
Photography
Lingjian Sheng
Design team
Jibing Liu, Guangwen Liao, Manling Chen, Zhiqiang Wang
Completion year
January 2023
Client
Wuhan Jihuanyuan Investment and Construction Co., Ltd.
This building consists of Canopée Café and Sihai Club, and stands up and down along the mountainous area, integrating into the "ladder style" traditional mountain blocks in Chongqing. It adjoins Huguang Club and overlooks East Watergate. In Xie Ke's opinion, it is "the only place close to my childhood memory in Chongqing".
Project name
Sales office in Chongqing – Canopée Café and Sihai Club
Architecture firm
Signyan Design
Location
Huguang, Chongqing, China | Canopée
Interior design
Signyan Design
Client
China Airlines City Co.
Typology
Commercial › Office Building, Café, Clubhouse
This townhouse in Shenzhen used to be a completely different look. The colonial-style and complicated decoration that was popular in a certain era in China, is no longer fit for current life. The owner of the house, a rational and logical lawyer, after experiencing the ‘past tense’ living experience for a short time, decided to invite KiKi ARCHi to...
Project name
Breathing House
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Photography
Eiichi Kano / Tony Tan
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Tianping Wang
Design year
2021.08.01 – 2022.01.01
Completion year
2023.01.01
Material
Diatom mud-Shikoku / Tile-Terrazzo / Facade-stainless mes
Typology
Residential › House
The project is located in Shangqiu, which was known as Songdu or Songzhou in ancient times. The design concept is to recreate the elegant, quaint garden style of Song dynasty in a modern context. "Courtyard", "Garden" and "Lane" were arranged to make the space feel like home.
Project name
Lake Mansion
Landscape Architecture
IVVA (SHANGHAI), INC.
Location
Shangqiu, Henan Province, China
Design team
Song Yaping, Wei Hongcheng, Wang Bangyu, Jiang Zhihui
Completion year
June, 2022
Client
Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. of CSCEC 7th Division
Typology
Landscape Design
In the design of Glass Palace Spa, MOSOM DESIGN with a focus on researching “new aesthetic power” has emerged from the design itself. It centers on spatial aesthetics and scenario emotions & brand operation under the strategic thinking of “space is brand, scene is marketing”, with efforts made to create a complex quality space that unifies aestheti...
Project name
Glass Palace Spa
Architecture firm
MOSOM DESIGN
Location
Guangzhou, China
Principal architect
Zhongchen Jin
Design team
Ting Xiu, Shihao Guo, Cui Cui
Completion year
June 15, 2022
Typology
Healthcare › Wellbeing, Spa
The Eastern people are concerned with the interplay of the five elements of yin and yang, which has an extraordinary presence in the inherent logic of this project (the unspeakable layout of Feng Shui). All the above uses reflect our thinking and understanding of the depth of the space to find an appropriate way to interpret it. These intrinsic log...
Project name
Introverted Orientalist philosophy
Interior design
ASKOO STUDIO
Principal designer
Liú Ting Yu
Design team
Tan Jiayu, Zhou Chao, Wang Xingze,Heng Guochao
Completion year
October 2022
Collaborators
Lighting: ASKOO STUDIO
Architecture firm
ASKOO STUDIO
Typology
Interior Design › Company Culture Reception Room
SFEEL Designer Hotel TaiKoo Li is located in Dong'an South Road, Chengdu. It used to be one of the areas with the most old Chengdu flavor, with Chunxi Road and Shuijingfang in the south, Caojia Lane and Ma'an Road in the north.
Project name
SFEEL Designer Hotel in Taikoo Li
Architecture firm
HARMO Design
Location
Dong'an South Road, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Principal architect
Huang Renqi
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel
CLOU architects was commissioned by Vanke to design the fourth floor atrium of the newly opened Future City Mall in Qingdao. Located in Qingdao's northern district, Vanke Future City is a brand-new shopping and leisure destination devoted to the mingling of aesthetics, creativity and social experiences, hoping to bring a fresh vitality to Qingdao’s...
Project name
Qingdao Vanke Future City
Architecture firm
CLOU architects
Design team
Jan Clostermann, Lin Li, Xinhui Ding, Rentian Liu, Jingyao Cheng, Qiao Ding, Christopher Biggin
Collaborators
LDI: Qingdao Tengyuan Design Institute Co.,Ltd
Environmental & MEP
Promising Engineering and Consulting (Beijing) Co.,Ltd
Landscape
TOA Landscape Architecture
Typology
Retail › L4 Atrium Interior
