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24-05-2023

The Zikawei Library by Wutopia Lab in Shanghai

The story of the Zikawei Library in Shanghai is a tale of intelligent reuse, as the building was originally designed as a bookstore by David Chipperfield Architects. Immediately after the completion of the façade and the structure, it remained empty. However, at the city's will and thanks to the intervention of the Wutopia Lab studio, it has recently become the iconic public library of the Zikawei district.

27-09-2022

Monologue Art Museum, multifunctional space by Wutopia Lab

The Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab, commissioned by the Sino-Ocean Group, has created the Monologue Art Museum, a multifunctional space dedicated to different artistic disciplines and a sequence of spaces where visitors can enjoy art undisturbed in its various forms, from performances to exhibitions.

28-06-2022

MAD Architects Baiziwan Social Housing Beijing

Baiziwan Social Housing is the first social housing project by architect Ma Yansong and his firm MAD Architects. The project represents the culmination of research conducted by the architect since 2014, in the course of lectures held at Tsinghua University and Beijing Architecture University, and addressing the topic of social housing.

21-06-2022

Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing by gmp

The architectural firm von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) has delivered a major new cultural project for the city of Beijing. The new national museum was built at the northern end of Beijing's central axis and, for the first time, will display important art and craft collections that are part of the country's great cultural heritage.

30-05-2022

Arrival by Wutopia Lab with Roboticplus.AI, an urban sculpture

An artistic gesture to transform an anonymous square into an enticing place for passersby. This is Arrival, a 3D-printed magic realism-inspired installation in the Star Plaza of The MixC Shopping Mall in Shanghai. The intervention was commissioned by TOPYS and carried out by Wutopia Lab in collaboration with Roboticplus.AI.

25-11-2021

Wutopia Lab and The Shrine of Everyman

The Chinese Wutopia Lab architectural firm has transformed an abandoned rural building into an attraction, in other words a rest stop for visitors to the Qian Shao Farm. A project inspired by an idea deeply rooted in Chinese culture, that of the sacredness of everyday life.

16-09-2021

Duoyun bookstore in Taizhou designed by Wutopia Lab

Chinese architecture firm Wutopia Lab has designed a new library on the banks of the Yongning River in the typical water city of Taizhou. A project that starts from the transformation of a complex of disused buildings which, thanks to a white aluminium cladding has become a point of attraction in the local urban context.

19-08-2021

Rooms without a view. Strangers by Wutopia Lab in China

The project Strangers, by Chinese studio Wutopia Lab, investigates our relationship with holiday destinations and how we position ourselves in an unfamiliar environment. They asked themselves: should we really seek dialogue at all costs, or is it better to be a little more reserved? Strangers has 7-metre-high walls, with a monastic feel, but without denying the possibility of togetherness.

26-02-2021

Wutopia Lab’s Satori Harbor Library in Guangzhou

The Satori Harbor Library in Guangzhou, designed by Chinese studio Wutopia Lab, is located inside Vipshop’s headquarters. The library reveals the complex mechanism of the world by creating an abstract harbour city in which readers can wander among the books finding moments of enlightenment and deliverance.