Tag Wutopia Lab

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.

28-09-2020

The Aluminum Mountain by Wutopia Lab

The Chinese architecture firm Wutopia Lab has crafted an aluminium mountain in Luofu, Canton. This intriguing architecture is the showroom of the Industrial Park of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and it bounces off the power and the spirit of the local landscape.

21-05-2020

Sinan Poetry Books Store, Shanghai by Wutopia Lab

A poetic project to accommodate a bookstore for poetry. The Shanghai-based Chinese architecture firm, Wutopia Lab has converted the old orthodox St. Nicholas Church in Shanghai into a specialty bookstore.

06-04-2020

Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore by Wutopia Lab

The Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab has given the famous Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore in Wuhan, Hubei a complete makeover. Their project gravitates around an internal cone of light and stands as a symbol for the Hubei Changjiang Publishing & Media Group and for the city itself.

23-07-2018

Wutopia Lab designs an all-white bookstore in Xi’an, China

Shanghai-based architecture studio, Wutopia Lab recently completed a bookstore of the Zhongshu chain in Xi'an, one of China's oldest cities, and the capital of thirteen dynasties.