Kokaistudios’ recent urban renewal project in Anting saw the upgrading and refurbishment of the satellite town’s central square. Through a series of interventions, including a landmark centerpiece, the design connects the oversized space to its environs by extending and defining its four axes. The effect has proven transformative, elevating the once underused, ill-equipped space from an empty expanse, to a vibrant hub.
Text description is based on multiple interviews of the architect, LI Li, with Weiling He.
Huanglong Sports Center is located in the north of West Lake, the heart of Hangzhou. It is the alternative venue for 2022 Asian Games. The building scale is about 49000㎡, including 3000 seats. It contained a 50m×25m standard competition pool, a 50m×21m training pool, and a 21m×25m diving pool.
As a continuation of Friedrich August Stüler’s forum architecture, the James-Simon-Galerie serves as the new entrance building for Museum Island, completing the ensemble between the Kupfergraben canal and Neues Museum. Together with the ‘Archaeological Promenade’, it forms the backbone of the master plan that was developed in 1999 and adopted as the basis for all further planning on Museum Island. The building is sited on a narrow strip of land where Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s ‘Neuer Packhof’ administration building stood until 1938.
Jí Architect designed and installed a tea pavilion at the request of SMiTH (Beijing) a brand image design consultant of a tea company. The pavilion was intended to accommodate approximately 20 to 40 participants of Mountain Trip to Tea Plantations, an outdoor event organized by the tea company, when they were drinking tea and watching Chinese tea ceremony in the open air. The design needed to consider the convenience of installation, dismantling, and reuse of dismantled components for the next year’s event. All the components of the pavilion were made in Beijing and delivered for on-site installation.
Jí Architect designed and installed a tea pavilion at the request of SMiTH (Beijing) a brand image design consultant of a tea company. The pavilion was intended to accommodate approximately 20 to 40 participants of Mountain Trip to Tea Plantations, an outdoor event organized by the tea company, when they were drinking tea and watching Chinese tea ceremony in the open air. The design needed to consider the convenience of installation, dismantling, and reuse of dismantled components for the next year’s event. All the components of the pavilion were made in Beijing and delivered for on-site installation.
Nestled in the mountains of Moganshan, Cloud Hotel sits serenely in a bamboo forest in Deqing County, a popular retreat destination 200km away from Shanghai. The original building had three levels built along the mountain slope and carried features inspired by European castles. STUDIO8 was commissioned to renovate the architecture and interiors and redesign the visual identity.
Sky Village
The Community Center Naxiang should not only be a place for commerce or entertainment, but should provide public services and communication opportunities for the neighborhood.
Two millennia ago the Romans gazed across the Irish Channel from Britannia, to a land they called Hibernia, meaning ‘Land of Winter’. The Irish winters are indeed long, but spring paints vibrant colours on a patch quilt landscape, the setting for Meadow Dance.
Yantai Chunhui road is located in Laishan District, a place originally surrounded by educational institutions and former light-industries, there are some universities around such as Yantai University, Shandong Technology and Business University. The recent urbanization has made this area gradually become the heart of Laishan District, with most of factories moving away, leaving many vacant industrial buildings and warehouses. This project is right at the regenerating former industrial area, there were three buildings originally on the site, and the design mission was to transform the industrial space into a sharing living community for young people.
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