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Linehouse adds translucent sloping facade to Shanghai food market

November 25, 2025 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio Linehouse has transformed an old railway station in Shanghai, China, into a food market by adding a series of translucent sloping screens to create a new facade. The three-storey market, named Ink Ink Market, is located within a residential neighbourhood that was formerly occupied by the Tiantong’an Railway Station. To update the building,

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Tent-like canopies bring “outdoor feeling” to Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund

November 16, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has designed a cafe for Blue Bottle Coffee on Shanghai’s West Bund waterfront, featuring wooden canopies stretched out above a prefabricated concrete counter. The cafe overlooks a historic shipyard in West Bund, forming part of a post-industrial site on the Huangpu River that once contained Asia’s largest cement factory. Dutch firm

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Sigma’s pared-back Shanghai showroom lets photography paraphernalia come into focus

November 12, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Cameras and photographic lenses take centre stage in this minimalist showroom that Chinese firm Onoaa Studio has created for manufacturer Sigma in Shanghai. Onoaa Studio wanted the 500-square-metre showroom to embody the heritage of Sigma, which has been producing photography equipment out of its factory in the scenic mountain city of Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, since 1973.

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Dezeen Awards China 2025 winners revealed at party in Shanghai

October 24, 2025 Kaia Wang 0

All 27 winners of this year’s Dezeen Awards China, along with the projects of the year including a wetland museum, cafe set on a cliff and an installation combining steel containers with inflatables, have been revealed at ceremony in Shanghai. Over 150 shortlisted architects and designers from all over China, joined by Dezeen Awards China judges

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Semester Studio creates exhibition pavilion for Camerich using “borrowed materials”

November 7, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

This pavilion, designed by architecture firm Semester Studio for a furniture exhibition in Shanghai, was built entirely using materials that were separated and returned to their source after the show. The Temporary Storage Garden pavilion was created by Semester Studio for furniture producer Camerich’s presentation at the 2023 China International Furniture Fair. Rather than displaying

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Neri&Hu creates “urban oasis” for Artyzen New Bund 31 hotel in Shanghai

October 23, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has completed a hotel in Shanghai alongside the New Bund Performing Arts Centre, which was also designed by the studio. Located in Pudong District, Artyzen New Bund 31 hotel forms part of a larger development called Qiantan, which includes an office tower and a shopping centre. The hotel, which is connected directly

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Dezeen’s Global China exhibition spotlights cultural collaboration

October 10, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Models, sketches and photos of works by architects and designers including Neri&Hu, Büro Ole Scheeren, Paul Priestman and FOG Architecture feature in Dezeen’s Global China: Connecting The World Through Design exhibition in Shanghai Taking place during the World Design Cities Conference (WDCC) in Shanghai last month, Global China: Connecting The World Through Design showcased work

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Dezeen to host Global China architecture and design exhibition in Shanghai

September 24, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Dezeen has curated an exhibition during the World Design Cities Conference in Shanghai to showcase works by Chinese and international architects and designers that successfully bridge east and west. Titled Global China: Connecting the World Through Design, the exhibition will take place from 27 to 30 September in Shanghai. It will feature six architecture and

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Offhand Practice creates glass-walled cafe in Shanghai park

September 17, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio Offhand Practice has completed the Mei Yuan Cafe, a glass-walled pavilion in Shanghai that allows visitors to “immerse themselves” in the surrounding park. Located within the previously inaccessible Mei Yuan Park in the district of Pudong, the slender structure of white steel and glass is designed to have as minimal impact on the

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Temp nestles charred-wood pavilion in rocky Shanghai garden

August 18, 2024 Katie Last 0

Chinese studio Temp has used charred wood to create 3-to-1 Pavilion, a triangular shelter nestled in a rocky garden in Shanghai. Intended as a sanctuary-like space for drinking tea and gathering, the pavilion has a geometric form with a triangular plan and louvred walls made from wooden frames. “The 3-to-1 Pavilion design is the integration

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