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Jul 11

Foster + Partners exhibition to open in Shanghai

Posted in: Dezeen Wire, Do not show on the Homepage

Dezeen Wire: a major exhibition of work by architects Foster + Partners will open in China later this month at the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute.

Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture will be on show from 25 July to 25 August and will give an overview of the 227 projects in 20 countries completed by the practice since its inception in 1967 as Foster Associates.

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Here’s the full press release:

Foster + Partners exhibition to open in Shanghai this month

‘Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture’ will be staged at SPSI, the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute, from 25 July to 25 August 2012.

The exhibition is the first major survey of the studio’s work to be held in China. It reveals details of a number of new projects underway in the region, including headquarters for Citic Bank in Hangzhou, a new tower in Nanjing and the Vantone development in Shanghai. It is also an opportunity to see the original models and sketches for high-profile completed buildings, such as Beijing International Airport, the Millau Viaduct in France, Hearst Tower in New York and the Swiss Re headquarters in London.

Arranged around the themes of infrastructure, sustainability, high-rise, urban planning, history and culture, the works on display highlight the diversity of the practice’s work and showcase a growing portfolio of projects in China. They also illustrate into the changing nature of architectural practice over the past forty years – a timeline will illustrate the 227 projects in 20 countries completed by the practice since its inception in 1967 as Foster Associates. Allowing visitors a unique insight into the workings of the studio, a special exhibit created for the exhibition explores the design process from first client meeting to completed building and post-occupancy studies.

‘Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture’ is also timed to celebrate the recent opening of the studio’s Shanghai office, which is based in the Jiushi building on Zhong Shan Nan Road – a tower designed by the practice and the first project to be completed a British firm of architects in China.

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Apr 04

City Of Fog

Posted in: city of fog, fog, Martin Stavars.

Le photographe Martin Stavars a décidé d’immortaliser la ville de Chongqing en Chine sous le brouillard. Cette série de photographies appelée “City Of Fog” est tout simplement splendide et donne une réelle ambiance. Des clichés à découvrir dans la suite.

Previously on Fubiz

Apr 02

Decoster Concept

Posted in: Uncategorized

Mongolian sartorialists and military simplicity in an avant-garde collection

Decoster Concept is a new design project created by Ziggy Chen (Chinese: Chen Xiang), a well-known fashion designer from Shanghai and founder of Decoster. Decoster Concept is a high level, conceptual label launched in the second half of 2011. The creative research behind the project, the attentive selection of fabrics and the limited number of pieces for each garment make Decoster Concept one of the most exclusive brands in China.

In a new, dark, warehouse-like space in Beijing’s North Village, contemporary minimalism is mixed with different sources of inspiration: Inner-Mongolia’s desolate, windy grasslands and sartorial culture meet the austerity of military uniforms. Monks, herders, soldiers—all icons of a strict simplicity that breaks the often baroque standards of commonplace Chinese style. Colors disappear and give way to a game of light and darkness that recalls the concept of taoist duality and interdependency.

At the same time, in the lines and carefree look of the garments lies the concept of traveling, wandering to remote lands and the inspiring power of vast empty places. This trend to simplicity and a specific inclination to fine craftsmanship seems to be the key elements of what could be the future of Chinese style, a style with ancient roots that has been covered by a century of turmoil and by decades of frenzied development.

See more of Decoster Concept in their SS12 Collection runway show.

Decoster Concept

224/2F No.6 Building

123 Nong, Xingye Rd

Luwan District (xintiandi), Shanghai

and

NLG-01, 02, North Village

No.11 Sanlitun Road

Chaoyang District, Beijing

Mar 08

Tea House by Archi-Union

Posted in: Archi-Union

Concrete walls twist up through the interior of this tea house and library that Shanghai architects Archi-Union have constructed in the backyard of their studio.

Tea House by Archi-Union

Constructed from timber-formed concrete, the two-storey building has a glass facade.

Tea House by Archi-Union

A triangular first-floor balcony projects from this facade and wraps around the branches of an existing tree.

Tea House by Archi-Union

The contorted concrete walls inside the building conceal a lounge and reading room behind the ground-floor tea room, plus a staircase leading to the library above.

Tea House by Archi-Union

Other interesting projects from Shanghai include an MC Escher-inspired clothes store and a cave-like bar – see all our stories about Shanghai here.

Tea House by Archi-Union

Photography is by Zhonghai Shen.

Tea House by Archi-Union

Here’s some more from the architects:

Tea House, J-Office

The Tea House, located in the backyard of Archi-Union’s J-office, is constructed from the salvaged parts of the original warehouse’s collapsed roof. The site was extremely constricted with walls on three sides, and with only one side facing towards an open space that contains a pool. The space was further restricted by a mature tree. The design tries to embody harmony by integrating enclosure and openness, delightful space and logical construction and other complicated relations. This building reacts to the site’s environment; the plan layout is a logically obscure quadrilateral, thus maximizing the amount of space. It is divided into three parts. A covered public area is formed towards the open space with the pool, with an enclosed tea house at ground level and library on the first floor where a small triangular balcony extends around the existing tree. Other more private spaces exist such as a lounge, reading room and service room which are arranged towards the rear of the building; a delightful transitional space was created to connect the public space and the private spaces.

Tea House by Archi-Union

The transitional space was designed around a twisted nonlinear hexahedron staircase, which connects the functional spaces. The stair resolves the vertical transportation issue from the tea house and the library and provides an inner courtyard near the reading room for viewing the existing tree. The space was designed to bring a new experience to an ordinary functional space. Linear space suddenly changes into an expressive form, surging from the tea house then transforming into a tranquil space for the library on the floor above, making the reading room a special place to sit.

Tea House by Archi-Union

The volume is a three-dimensional irregular shape which is impossible to be understood through plans. The twisting shape was designed by scripting in Grasshopper an algorithmic plug-in for Rhino. However such a shape is difficult to translate into quantifiable information for guiding construction. The constraints of manual construction obliged us to invent solutions at the time of construction to realize the advanced digital design with local low-tech construction techniques. Firstly we abstracted the structural skeleton which was subsequently scanned with digital software. This curved shape was then recalculated through interlacing straight lines; these lines were then formed into ruled surfaces filling the void. The spacing was set to the dimension of timber, thus the digital ‘setting out’ could be easily translated into a manually constructible shape.

Tea House by Archi-Union

A 1:1 timber framework was produced by following the same logic as the digital model; a subdivided timber shuttering covered this framework to create a curved formwork. The formwork was built through a series of upper and lower layers according to the construction sequence. The casting was almost the same as ordinary concrete casting, reinforced with re-bars following the straight lines of the ruled surface. Concrete casting after the reinforced bar was completed by manual labor and the final physical effect was achieved. The traces of the timber formwork remained imprinted on the poured concrete after construction, with quality defects such as bubbles, adhesive failures and re-bar exposure present due to the manual construction – defects, however, that are obscured by the unique curved shape. Although there are errors of in the formwork, planning and manual casting the combination of digital design and low-tech manual construction provided a great opportunity to study the possibilities of digital architecture.

Tea House by Archi-Union

Location: No. 1436 Jungong Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai
Area: approx 300 sqm
Design: March, 2010 – August, 2010
Construction: August, 2010 – May, 2011
Architect: Archi-Union Architects
Chief Designer: Philip F. Yuan
Design Team: Alex Han, Fuzi He

Feb 23

Shang Xia

Posted in: boutiques, craftsmanship, jewelery

European luxury and traditional Chinese craftsmanship in a Shanghai boutique

by Alessandro De Toni

In a bustling metropolis like Shanghai, Shang Xia‘s boutique strikes a balance between “human and nature”, a millenary value of Chinese culture that often appears to be lost in the country’s economic rush. Wood and sandstone are combined together with high-tech fiber to create a corner of peace, a unique and harmonious environment.

The Shang Xia brand was founded in 2008 by Chinese designer Jian Qiong Er and Hermès, one of the most well-known western luxury brands in China. Together, they collaborate on a line of furniture, decorative objects, jewelry and high-fashion garments entirely produced in China and characterized by excellent craftsmanship and understated simplicity.

As the name Shang Xia implies—it translates to “up and down” in English—style is a state of harmony achieved by a dynamic flow of energy from the past, present and future. It’s a dialogue between tradition and contemporary taste, which aims to create a 21st-century lifestyle founded on the finest of Chinese design traditions.

Among Shang Xia’s most beautiful crafts are the jewelry collections “Garden” and “Shan Shui”. In the former, the Taihu rock—an ancient symbol of wisdom and immortality—is combined with red sandalwood, jade, agate, gold and silver through a carving process that can take up to 300 hours.

For “Shan Shui”, agate and jade are carved and polished in the shape of an ancient Chinese coin. The process requires abut 480 hours of craftsmanship by a single artisan who cuts and polishes the agate on a spinning wheel. It is an almost spiritual exercise that recalls samsara, the Sanskrit word for the ever-turning wheel of life.

Shang Xia

1F, South Tower, Hong Kong Plaza

283 Huaihai Middle Rd, Shanghai

Dec 21

Audi Haus

Posted in: atelier fcjz, F1 international racing circuit, haus

Les architectes de l’Atelier FCJZ, une agence basée en Chine, ont conçue cette installation appelée “Audi Haus”. Pensée à l’occasion du circuit de F1 Shanghai, ils ont construit des partitions de verre autour de la voiture, pour un rendu où la vision du véhicule diffère et impressionne.

Previously on Fubiz

Nov 08

Prisma Interactive Installation

Posted in: prisme, wonwei

Une collaboration de Wonwei et le studio Super Nature Design avec cette installation artistique et interactive pour l’exposition “2011 International Science and Art Shanghai”. Intitulée Prisma 1666, elle s’axe sur les reflets de lumière et l’interaction avec les différentes couleurs.

Previously on Fubiz

Oct 24

Shanghai to ban glass curtain walls on many new buildings

Posted in: Dezeen Wire, Do not show on the Homepage

Dezeen Wire: safety concerns have led local officials in Shanghai to propose the introduction of a regulation banning the use of glass curtain walls on new schools, hospitals and residential buildings – China Daily

A number of recent incidents involving falling glass in the city, which has the highest number of glass-clad buildings in China, have led to concerns that poor installation and maintenance are increasing the chances of injury to the public.

Jul 22

Alter Store by 3Gatti Architecture Studio

Posted in: 3Gatti Architecture Studio

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Naked mannequins sit on the walls and ceiling of this MC Escher-inspired clothes store in Shanghai.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Designed by Rome and Shanghai architects 3Gatti Architecture Studio, the store is filled with clashing concrete staircases that display clothes and accessories.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Fitting rooms and a stockroom are enclosed beneath the ascending stairs at the rear of the store.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Smaller staircases at the front of the store cantilever out across the floor.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Lengths of copper pipe provide banisters, as well as rails for hanging clothing.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Other Shanghai projects recently featured on Dezeen include three aquatics stadiums and an office with a labia-like staircase – see all our stories about projects in Shanghai here.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Photography is by Shen Qiang.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Here’s some more text from the architects:

Alter
Concept store in Shanghai

Alter is a project for an alternative fashion store.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Sonja Long, the owner, had a vision out of the main stream, a vision about inverted values, alternative beauties and subverted point of views.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Despite the appearance actually Shanghai is a very conservative city, people seems not ready yet to accept many different ideas especially if against the main safe business values that dominate this town.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Sonja is Shanghainese but she was crazy and brave enough to propose to her customers a new model of high-end fashion store with top quality products but completely alternative at the main global brands accepted by the modern rich Chinese shoppers.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Francesco Gatti, the architect, is Roman and he was crazy and brave enough to realize into a space those ALTERnative feelings he share with Sonja.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

The design was fast and spontaneous, as usual Francesco designed like a child, without inhibitions.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

The space was small but needed a lot of functions and rooms, so was a natural gesture to develop a stair surface to cover the office and fitting rooms and at the same time exhibit the products in a multidimensional way.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

The philosophy of Alter, as the word say is to be and inspire an alternative world.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

So as a designer Francesco imagined an alternative architectural space like the ones in the drawings of Escher, where gravity and the rules of the normal world doesn’t exist anymore, where there is no “up” or “down”, no “left” or “right”, and where everything is possible.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Following this idea in the Alter store the stair become an independent element capable to wrap the space or to fold like a peace of paper creating impossible environments… or maybe possible, in the Alter dream.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Yes a dream; few months after the shop opening Francesco went to the cinema and discovered “Inception”, a movie about dreams where all the concept, from the stairs to the mirrors is strangely the same of ALTER… maybe he will be a good movie director.

Alter Store by 3Gatti

Alter credits:

Architecture firm: 3GATTI
Chief architect: Francesco Gatti
Project manager: Brendan Whitsitt
Collaborators: Kylin Cheung , Bonnie Zhou , Karina Samitha, Danny Leung, Priyanka Gandhi, Zenan nLi , Andrew Chow
Programme: Fashion store exhibition area (for dresses, shoes, jewelery, glasses, design toys, books), lounge area, DJ console, two fitting rooms, office room
Contractor: Suenpui Laam
Client: Sonja Long
Location: Xin Tian Di, Madang Road, Xintiandi Style Mall, Shanghai
Total area: 100 m²
Design period: Spring 2010
Construction period: Summer 2010
Shop opening: September 2010
Materials: Steel structure, concrete bricks, white terrazzo cement, wax, plasterboard, gray cement, epoxy, plywood, leather
Photographer: Shen Qiang