Tag Shanghai

23-08-2017

Neri&Hu and Suzhou Chapel

Suzhou Chapel is a building with many merits designed by the well-known studio Neri & Hu of Shanghai. Located in a dense residential neighbourhood in the city of Suzhou, the chapel is designed to be a place for worshipping and meeting.

08-08-2017

Abu Dhabi: stellar architecture and design

Abu Dhabi currently faces its most ambitious challenge yet: becoming a centre of culture and the arts through the culture of design. After building numerous luxury hotels, shopping malls and golf courses, the largest of the Arab Emirates is now assigning a priority role to architecture and design.

04-07-2017

Celebrating nature. An office by Muxin Design and Research

The Chinese studio Muxin Design and Research has been asked to redesign an ‘old style’ office so that the environment could be more pleasant for staff. The first step, say the architects, was to eliminate the cubicles to “let the forest in”.

19-06-2017

Aluminium sunbreaks on Kengo Kuma’s Shanghai Soho Building

Kengo Kuma has built a classic skyscraper in Shanghai with aluminium sunbreaks designed to look like origami, with shapes recalling silent columns of rising incense smoke.

30-05-2017

The Zanadu Travel Experience by Shishang Architecture

Zanadu is a Chinese e-commerce company that works in the luxury holiday sector. To help its clients understand what it offers, it has commissioned a centre from Shishang Architecture where it presents hotels and holiday package destinations in virtual reality.