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Beijing / Shenzhen | PILLS Studio New Year Recruitment!

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PILLS is a multidisciplinary architecture studio based in Beijing and Shenzhen. Our practice spans speculative fields including architecture and interior design, installation and exhibition design, urban and landscape design, as well as cross-media production and cultural dissemination. Ranging from installations to public buildings, and from cultural projects to commercial developments, PILLS actively responds to diverse urban and architectural design needs while driving the production of contemporary architectural culture through various media.

The architectural, research, and art projects of PILLS are widely recognized within the industry. The studio's work has been showcased in major international exhibitions, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Helsinki Design Week, the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS), the Beijing Art Biennale, the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, the Power Station of Art (PSA) Emerging Curators Project in Shanghai, the Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing Youth Curator Program, Get It Louder, the "Nine-Tiered Pagoda" exhibition at Pingshan Art Museum in Shenzhen, and the "A New Generation of Working Methods" exhibition at Wind H Art Center. The studio's work has also received numerous awards, including the New York ADC Awards for Design Studio of the Year, Best of Discipline, and Gold Cube; the London Design Awards Platinum Winner (highest honor); the MUSE Design Awards Platinum Winner (highest honor); the Norman Foster Foundation "Kharkiv Housing Challenge" Second Prize; First Prize in the Fairy Tales Competition; First Prize in the Jacques Rougerie Foundation Competition; and the Organizing Committee Award and Academic Committee Award of the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB).

Wang Zigeng, founder and principal architect of PILLS, is an architect, artist, and curator. He is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). He holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. He served as the Chief Curator and Academic Committee Member of the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB). He is also an Academic Committee Member of the Greater Bay Area Innovation Institute of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and the Benyuan Design and Research Center of Shenzhen University. Previously, he was a visiting professor at Syracuse University, a lecturer at the Fine Arts School of Beijing Film Academy, and an open studio instructor at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. His research fields include environmental technology, architectural exhibitions, and architectural media and narrative.

A Mountaintop Dwelling: A Minimalist Residence Overlooking the Los Angeles Skyline

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Located in the Bird Streets of Los Angeles, adjacent to Beverly Hills, the Blue Jay Way Residence occupies a prime, elevated site overlooking the Los Angeles and Hollywood skylines. The project’s open floor plan establishes a strong visual and experiential connection between the interior and the panoramic city views, complemented by staggered courtyards and warm white materials that invite a play of light and shadow into every corner of the building.

Jobs in Shanghai | Verse Design: Architect, Assistant Architect, Architectural Intern

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Founded in Shanghai in 2002 by a group of architects with academic backgrounds from China and abroad, Verse Design currently operates offices in Shanghai and Los Angeles. For over two decades, Verse Design has been deeply engaged in multi-scale practices across urban design, architectural design, community making, and residential product systems, developing a systematic and coherent design logic and methodology. From master planning and urban design to schematic design and detail control, a "craftsman's spirit" underpins every phase of their work.

Cultural and tourism resort towns, neighborhood communities, civic spaces, and community retail form the core of the firm's spatial typologies and research. Over the past decade, Verse Design has master-planned and fully designed a series of resort towns for the renowned lifestyle brand Aranya, including projects in Qinhuangdao, Jinshanling, Wuling Mountain, Sanya, and Jiulong Lake in Guangzhou. Additionally, the firm has been deeply involved in the master planning and architectural design of prominent projects such as Jiangshan Wanli, Prolo Utopia, and Shanghai Vanke's Ideal Land.

Verse Design maintains a boutique team size and a flat management structure, offering architects a highly autonomous working environment. Here, team members engage in multi-dimensional, full-phase projects ranging from early-stage programming and urban design to architectural design and detail execution. We welcome talented, like-minded architects to join us and grow alongside the firm. The office is located in a historic garden villa at the intersection of Zhaojiabang Road and Wulumuqi Road in Shanghai, just 50 meters from the Zhaojiabang Road Metro Station (Lines 7 and 9), offering easy accessibility and a comfortable working environment.

Ningbo Jobs | Positive-Negative Design: Design Lead, Interior Designer, Design Associate, FF&E Designer, Product Structural Engineer

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OUTIN.DESIGN was founded in 2014 by Chen Wang and Shajun Jiang. Based in China, it is an award-winning, multidisciplinary design firm with international recognition.

OUTIN.DESIGN's creative process begins with the observation of the self, daily life, nature, humanity, art, and the world itself. The studio seeks to gather and translate these impressions, reflecting ideas, objects, and moments through an experimental, functional, and forward-looking design language.

Our practice comprises four interdisciplinary design teams—R.E.C, WMT, SIBAN, and JEDI 404—which operate both independently and collaboratively across boundaries. Their exploration spans a comprehensive range of design scales, including architecture, community interaction, innovative retail spaces, exhibition design, co-working offices, boutique hotels, residential and lifestyle environments, interior styling and sourcing, as well as product design and prop development.

Each team brings a distinct design language and expertise to the table, enabling us to provide clients with comprehensive support across highly specialized, intersecting domains. This structure fosters diversity and pluralism within creative communities and technical innovation, while ensuring the streamlined operation of OUTIN.DESIGN as a cohesive, collective practice.

Job in Beijing | Wild-City Architecture: Architect, Interior/Exhibition Designer, Media Operations/Curatorial Assistant, Intern (Architecture/Interior/Exhibition/Visual Design)

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Wild City Studio was founded in Paris in 2010, and established in Beijing in 2015 as Wild City Factory. An innovative and experimental interdisciplinary architectural practice, its research and practice span architecture, urbanism, landscape, interior and exhibition design, art curation, event planning, content production, the integration of technology and art, and metaverse development.

Founder and principal architect Ye Cheng graduated from the Department of Earth Sciences at Nanjing University before studying in France at the École Spéciale d'Architecture (ESA) in Paris, where his thesis project won the ESA Annual Award. He is the first Chinese recipient of the "Prix des Jeunes Artistes" (Young Artist Award) from the Institut de France. Having lived and worked in France for over a decade, Ye Cheng possesses a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural background spanning science, architecture, and art, making him a representative figure among China's young interdisciplinary pioneers. He has curated major domestic and international exhibitions, including five editions of the "Reconstructing Utopia" architecture and art exhibition, the "Urban Interconnection" Sino-French Contemporary Architecture Exhibition series celebrating the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and France, the "Unknown City" Chinese Contemporary Architecture Installation and Video Exhibition, the main exhibition of Beijing Design Week 2015, the inaugural 2019 Nanjing Youth Olympic Art Light Festival, the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival 3.0" Digital Art Exhibition in Hong Kong, and the "Emotional Architecture" exhibition at the Laboratoire d'Exposition in Paris. His large-scale spatial art installations—such as Huntian City, Void Shanshui, Net City, Super-Axis, Ecological Mandala, and Wormhole City—merge Eastern philosophy and aesthetics with modern technology, proposing a poetic vision of "Eastern Urban Shanshui" for future urban spaces and social structures. Furthermore, he independently produced the sci-fi short film Interstellar Folding, which uses cinematic language to explore his "Interstellar Great Bay Area" space city concept. In 2022, serving as the master planner of the "Meta City" metaverse, Ye Cheng collaborated with Meta Media and Baidu to develop and launch this internationally leading metaverse application, pioneering the "Eastern Futurism" metaverse school that integrates Eastern and Western philosophies with urban theory.

Design Philosophy
Wild City Factory has consistently adhered to a design philosophy centered on "spatial ontology." From the spiritual to the material, the individual to the world, and reality to the virtual, all questions are fundamentally spatial. Everything begins with space, rooted in the present while spanning the three dimensions of time: past, present, and future. Space is not merely a container, but a connector—linking people to people, space to space, and humanity to space. Space exists in a fleeting moment of time, yet resides in its eternity. In this sense, from architecture to art, exhibition to writing, and observation to criticism, the work of Wild City Factory always revolves around spatial inquiries. Space, ultimately, is the root of all questions.

Externally, our work explores, perceives, imagines, constructs, dissolves, abolishes, and regenerates space within its limitations. Internally, we continuously traverse the "in-between" (jian) within the infinity of space, drawing infinitely closer to its "void" (kong)—the very ontology of space.

Believing that "design is problem-solving," Wild City Factory champions a trinity spatial strategy of "Space-Content-Event." By conducting in-depth research and analysis of project contexts, we integrate this spatial philosophy and methodology into innovative designs. This approach embodies the diverse, multi-directional, and cross-border interdisciplinary nature of our practice.

Chongqing Jobs | WIJ Architects: Project Architect, Architectural Designer, Architectural Intern

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Based in Chongqing, We Live Architects is a pioneering, research-oriented design practice. The firm boasts a highly creative international design team whose principals are alumni of top-tier global and domestic institutions, including the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), the School of Architecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Goldsmiths, University of London, the University of Nottingham, and the University of New South Wales.

Blending humanistic and technological thinking, the practice centers its work on the tripartite relationship between humans and environment, society, and self. Using space as a medium, the studio approaches design through the three dimensions of form, morphology, and concept, aiming to generate distinctive spatial experiences for urban environments.

The firm's portfolio spans urban regeneration, public architecture, cultural tourism planning, and commercial spaces. Its notable projects include high-quality architectural designs and spatial transformations such as the Liziba Yellow Building, Jiangxiaobai's One-Acre-and-Three-Fifths Field (Yimusanfendi), the Luxe Lakes Curator District, and the Jialing Bridge East Village.

Design Philosophy
We Live Architects is both pioneering and pragmatic. Beginning with imagination and a commitment to originality, we seek a unique soul for every project. Guided by responsibility, we manage the entire process to guarantee high-quality execution. Grounded in our ecological and temporal contexts, we navigate the space between “the reasonable and the forbidden,” embrace challenging yet intriguing design constraints, and maintain an authentic, if sometimes unconventional, attitude. We focus on the threefold relationship between humanity and the environment, society, and self. Using space as our canvas, we engage with design through form, morphology, and concept to foster unique behaviors and experiences, encouraging people to embrace new ideas and perspectives.

Announcement Document for "Feasibility Study and Schematic Design of the Linhai Qianwan River Bridge (Landscape Bridge No. 1) Project, etc."

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Project Name
Feasibility Study and Schematic Design for Qianwan Park (Menghai Boulevard to Qianhai Bay Section)

Project Location
Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province

Tendering Platform
Shenzhen Public Resources Trading Center

Shanghai Jobs | Zhuanshan Builders: Project Leader, Architect, Researcher

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Adhering to an Eastern philosophy of sustainable construction and the creative ethos of "renewing the ancient," Civil-Nova is dedicated to deconstructing and reconstructing traditional timber structures. Building on traditional Chinese craftsmanship, we employ contemporary thought and design methodologies to transform these structures into "new timber systems" integrated with modern aesthetics, production technologies, and functional demands—thereby rebuilding the connection between humanity and nature while advocating for a new way of living in the digital era.

More Than a Design Firm: Producers of Landscape and Cultural Spaces
Civil-Nova’s projects are situated across China's diverse landscapes, spanning tropical and subtropical climate zones. Our practice encompasses the entire architectural life cycle: from R&D and design to intelligent manufacturing, construction, curation, operation, and recycling. We strive to leave a meaningful mark on the landscape and the earth.

More Than an Architectural Practice: A Diverse and Dynamic Ecosystem
Initiated and led by architects, Civil-Nova brings together craftsmen, engineers, artists, and other creative minds. Through collaborative synergy and rapid iteration, we co-create and operate unique landscape and cultural space products.

Digital Nomadism & Creation: Supporting an Inspiring Lifestyle
In addition to our main office on Wukang Road in Shanghai, Civil-Nova has established satellite workspaces in scenic destinations like Hainan and Anhui, offering creators a highly flexible working environment. We advocate for a digital lifestyle and site-specific creation, encouraging team members to immerse themselves in local cultures for inspiration. Here, you will hone your skills through hands-on, multi-dimensional experience across all project phases, and unleash your talent through frequent, high-caliber collaborations with like-minded peers.

If you share our vision of shaping the land with our ideals, we welcome you to join us!

Pre-announcement | Public Tender for Design Bid Section II of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation and Shenzhen Bay Laboratory Permanent Campus Integrated Construction Project

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The Integrated Permanent Site Construction Project of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) and Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (SZBL) is located in the northeastern sector of the Science and Education Integration Cluster in Guangming Science City, Guangming District, Shenzhen. Tasked with the core mission of establishing a comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area, the project will establish a strategic scientific and technological institution integrating basic research, clinical research, full-chain industrial translation, and technical innovation in the biomedical field, supporting Shenzhen's development into a pioneering demonstration hub for medical and life sciences innovation.

The Integrated Permanent Site Construction Project of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) & Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (SZBL) is located in the northeastern sector of the Science and Education Integration Cluster within Guangming Science City, Guangming District, Shenzhen. Carrying the core mission of establishing a comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area, the project aims to develop strategic scientific and technological institutions that integrate basic research, clinical research, full-chain industrial translation, and technical innovation in the biomedical and life sciences fields, supporting Shenzhen's development into a pioneering demonstration hub for medical and life sciences innovation.

The tender for the schematic design and preliminary architectural design of Bid Section II of the Integrated Permanent Site Construction Project of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation and Shenzhen Bay Laboratory is about to commence, with the official tender announcement to be released shortly. The tenderee is the Engineering Design Management Center of the Bureau of Public Works of Shenzhen Municipality. Pre-registration and expressions of interest are now open to design teams worldwide.

Tenders for the schematic design and preliminary architectural design of the Integrated Permanent Site Construction Project of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation & Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (Bid Section II) will launch soon, with the official tender announcements to be released shortly. The tenderee is the Engineering Design Management Center of the Bureau of Public Works of Shenzhen Municipality. Pre-registration is now open to design teams from around the globe.

Tender Project: Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation and Shenzhen Bay Laboratory Integrated Permanent Site Construction Project Design Bid Section II
Project Name: Design for the Integrated Permanent Site Construction of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation & Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (Bid Section II)
Project Location: Northeastern sector of the Science and Education Integration Cluster in Guangming Science City; situated at the northeastern gateway of Shenzhen, adjacent to Sun Yat-sen University (Shenzhen Campus) and Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology.
Project Location: Northeastern sector of the Science and Education Integration Cluster in Guangming Science City; at the northeastern gateway of Shenzhen; adjacent to Sun Yat-sen University (Shenzhen Campus) and Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
Pre-registration Deadline: June 4, 2023, 17:00 (Beijing Time)
Pre-registration Deadline: 17:00, June 4, 2023

Job in Shanghai | Genarchitects: Senior Architect, Architect, Media and Research Specialist, Architectural Intern

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genarchitects was founded in Shanghai in 2013. Whether operating in dense urban environments or amidst natural landscapes, the firm remains committed to the authentic realities of design and construction practice. By carefully balancing site conditions and functional requirements, genarchitects seeks to find calm and honest solutions for complex and uncertain realities. 

Led by founding partners Fan Beilei, Kong Rui, and Xue Zhe, genarchitects engages in a comprehensive range of design work. Their projects span from schools and art museums to bridges, sports fields, furniture, and urban design. Representative works include the Dingshu Vocational School, the Pavilion of One Court, the Aranya MCSC Hotel, and the Wallpaper* Apartments at Friendship Bay. The firm's work has received numerous honors, including the Architecture China Natural Construction Award, the WA China Architecture Award, the Architectural Creation Award of the Architectural Society of Shanghai, the AIA Shanghai Design Award, the German Iconic Awards (Best of Best), and Italy's THE PLAN Award. 

Jobs in Shanghai & Hangzhou | Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects: Technical Design Lead, Project Architect, Urban Designer, Business Operations Specialist, PR & Media Specialist

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To us, architectural practice is an organic process of construction. Within this framework, we emphasize three dimensions of practice: research, design, and execution. Rather than being strictly sequential, these three aspects are parallel and intersecting. Refined through both built works and speculative projects, our daily collaboration has become increasingly grounded and stable. Consequently, our practice has crystallized around three main pillars: historical context, community placemaking, and a smart future. In recent years, guided by a diverse, multifaceted, and open-minded architectural perspective, we have strived to create vivid scenarios and spaces tailored to the unique narrative of each project, seeking enduring poetry and value. Our ultimate goal is to create dignified human habitats for society through precise and poetic architectural design.

Since 2021, to provide more specialized services for local projects in Hangzhou and the Yangtze River Delta region, ALYA established its Hangzhou studio and formed an urban design team. Over the years, the firm has received widespread international media attention, numerous awards, and exhibition invitations, including the ARCASIA Gold Medal, the UK's Dezeen Awards (Hotel Building of the Year), the UK's BUILD Award for Architecture and Sustainable Design, the DFA Design for Asia Awards, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Wallpaper* Design Awards, WA China Architecture Awards, and the IDEAT Future Award. In 2021, Yuyang Liu, founder of ALYA, was appointed by the Hangzhou Canal Group as the Chief Planning and Design Advisor for the Cultural and Tourism Integration of the Hangzhou Grand Canal. Following three challenging years of the global pandemic, ALYA will celebrate a series of project completions in 2023, while systematically launching high-quality, meticulous, sustainable, and highly creative projects aligned with future trends.

For those who are passionate about the healthy development of premier Chinese architectural practices, value a pioneering spirit and precision, enjoy exploring the unknown, and seek to grow with us into a world-class professional design team based in the Yangtze River Delta, we warmly invite you to join ALYA.

The deep engagement and reflections of architects worldwide in 2022

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As 2023 begins, looking back at 2022 reveals a year of profound shifts, challenges, and boundary-pushing opportunities for architectural practices worldwide. Navigating these new unknowns, we have compiled our interviews from the past year with a diverse range of firms and practitioners. This retrospective explores how legacy firms with over two decades of practice continue to thrive, how the profession is adapting to technological frontiers like the metaverse and artificial intelligence, the challenges material experts are tackling, and how a new generation of architects is shaping the future of the discipline. Read on for our annual roundup of conversations.

Jobs in Shanghai | XISUI Design: Landscape Installation Designer, Children's Space Designer, Interns

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Founded in Shanghai in 2018, XISUI Design is currently a boutique, close-knit team that encourages every member to realize their full potential and enjoy a healthy work-life balance. We have accumulated extensive experience in delivering projects driven by digital design and construction technologies, encouraging practical actions that turn groundbreaking innovation and imagination into reality. In integrating digital technology into the design and construction fields, our completed works currently focus on spatial design, installation art, children's playscapes, and landscape structures. We offer schematic design, strategic planning, and construction administration services. Our office is located in the Jing'an District of Shanghai, near Jing'an Sculpture Park and within walking distance of Metro Lines 1, 2, and 13. We welcome pragmatic individuals who aspire to shape the future to join us and grow together.

Upholding the design philosophy of “Cutting-edge, Joy, and Creativity,” we leverage advanced digital design and fabrication technologies to create richer imaginative spaces and narrative environments. Our design pursuits combine pioneering modes of expression with a continuous exploration of intrinsic essence, allowing users of different ages, family structures, and cultural backgrounds to experience the genuine emotion, local heritage, and profound care for life embedded in our work.

Jobs in Shanghai | Shanghai Bingren Architects: Project Architect, Architect, Assistant Architect, Architectural Intern

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DDB Architects (Shanghai) was founded in 1998 by Professor Xiang Bingren. Since its inception, influenced by a strong academic background, the firm has adhered to the core philosophy of "culture-led design, creative value enhancement." This approach manifests as a multifaceted contemplation of culture across diverse design typologies, driving continuous creative momentum. Positioning itself as a highly specialized, professional, and lean, top-tier architectural design team, the firm is committed to pursuing both academic and artistic excellence in architecture. Over more than 20 years of deep industry engagement, the firm has maintained an urban perspective. It has accumulated extensive project experience, professional expertise, and a robust client base across seven key sectors: supertall complexes, offices and corporate headquarters, urban renewal, commercial spaces, cultural landmarks, bespoke hospitality spaces, and customized residential spaces. Through high-caliber design creativity, professional quality, and attentive, personalized service, DDB has established an outstanding market reputation.

The firm features a mature innovation and research system, a lean design methodology, and an integrated design workflow.
Innovation and Research System: Centered on talent development and brand building, the firm has conducted a series of distinctive explorations and practices across platforms such as R&D, team knowledge management, and media communication. By integrating R&D platforms with design practice, design and management are closely linked to drive iterative upgrades.

Lean Design System: Utilizing its proprietary, meticulous curtain wall control methodology, the firm manages façade design with scientific rigor, allowing for highly targeted cost optimization.

Integrated Design: With an integrated design matrix, the firm possesses design capabilities across architecture, landscape, and interior design, alongside the perspective and capacity to address related technical challenges. Additionally, by collaborating with a network of leading domestic technical partners and consultants, DDB has formed a multidisciplinary design matrix to deliver highly professional solutions tailored to clients' specific needs.

Jobs in Beijing | PILLS Studio: Architect, Interior / Exhibition Designer, Business Operations Manager (Deputy General Manager), Brand & Operations Specialist, Artwork / Installation R&D Specialist, Interns (Architecture / Exhibition / Interior Design)

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PILLS is a Beijing-based research studio for architecture. Our practice primarily encompasses speculative endeavors in architectural and interior design, installation and exhibition design, urban and landscape design, as well as cross-media production and cultural dissemination. Spanning installations to public buildings, and cultural projects to commercial developments, PILLS actively delivers diverse urban and architectural design services while simultaneously leveraging various media to drive the production of contemporary architectural culture.

The studio’s architectural, research, and art projects are widely recognized within the discipline. Our work has been showcased at major international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Oslo Architecture Triennale, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Helsinki Design Week, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS), Beijing Art Biennale, National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Shanghai Power Station of Art (PSA) Emerging Curators Project, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing Youth Curator Program, Get It Louder, the "Nine-Tiered Pagoda" exhibition at Shenzhen Pingshan Art Museum, and "A New Generation of Working Methods" at the Synaesthetic Museum. The studio’s projects have also won numerous accolades, including First Prize in the Fairytales Competition, First Prize in the Jacques Rougerie Competition, and the Academic Committee Award at the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB).

Shanghai Jobs | Verse Design: Lead Architect, Project Architect, Architect, Assistant Architect, Interior Design Director, Interior Designer, Architectural Intern

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Founded in 2002 by a group of architects with diverse academic backgrounds from both China and abroad, Verse Design has been deeply engaged in exploring various scales of design for over twenty years, including urban design, architectural design, community making, and residential product systems. Through years of practice, the firm has developed a systematic and continuous design logic and methodology. From programming and planning to urban design, and from schematic design to detail control, a "craftsman's spirit" permeates every phase of our work. We are dedicated to the process of identifying problems, refining solutions, and executing them, maintaining an exceptionally high standard for project implementation and completion. Our primary project types include cultural tourism resort towns, resort hotels, as well as cultural and community lifestyle amenities.

Verse Design maintains a boutique team size and a flat management structure, offering architects a highly autonomous working atmosphere. Here, you will engage in multi-dimensional, full-lifecycle projects ranging from early-stage programming and urban design to architectural design and detailing. We look forward to welcoming like-minded, exceptional architects to join us and grow together with Verse Design.

The firm's office is located in a historic garden villa at the intersection of Zhaojiabang Road and Wulumuqi Road in Shanghai. It is conveniently situated just 50 meters on foot from Zhaojiabang Road Station (Metro Lines 7 and 9), offering an easily accessible and comfortable working environment.

Hangzhou + Shanghai + Nanjing | goa: Lead Architect, Architect, Intern, Landscape Designer

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goa is one of China's leading architectural design firms. Over 25 years of practice, goa has consistently represented the benchmark of quality in the Chinese architectural industry, serving as a pioneer and creator of human environments and lifestyles in Asia. With an elite multidisciplinary team and an integrated, interdisciplinary approach, the firm holds a leading position in high-end residential, resort hotels, corporate headquarters, urban renewal, and cultural tourism and rural reconstruction. As of the end of 2022, more than 200 of goa's projects have won over 400 architectural design awards from authoritative domestic and international industry organizations and media, including the World Architecture Festival (WAF), MIPIM, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the Leading European Architects Forum (LEAF) Awards, the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, The Architectural Review (AR), Architizer A+, the China Exploration and Design Association, and the Architectural Society of Shanghai. Driven by its mission to "shape vibrant human habitats," goa continues to create unique spatial experiences for future cities and communities through high-quality design services.

A rigorous, objective, diverse, and open corporate culture forms the brand DNA of goa. The firm offers professionals an attractive working environment and rewarding career development, supporting the autonomous growth of outstanding talents while fostering an innovative atmosphere of interdisciplinary collaboration. With its unique vitality, goa is committed to providing every employee with a stage to realize their professional aspirations.

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Ningbo Jobs | Zhengfan Design: Interior Designer, FF&E Designer, Rendering Designer, Detail Designer, Product Designer

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OUTIN. DESIGN
A multidisciplinary, collaborative design firm. Its services span architecture (social and community interaction, innovative retail spaces, exhibitions, co-working spaces, boutique hotels), residential and lifestyle spaces, FF&E design and installation, and product design and fixture R&D. The four design teams under OUTIN. DESIGN operate independently while frequently collaborating on cross-disciplinary projects.

R.E.C
The team responsible for architecture (social and community interaction, innovative retail spaces, exhibitions, co-working spaces, boutique hotels), art direction, and strategic consulting. Its name stems from reflections on "Time Recycle"—the "long-term cycle" of 24 hours, 1440 minutes, and 86400 seconds. From understanding the essence of things to designing solutions, the team integrates the cycle and symbiosis of time. This ensures our projects are both poetic and pragmatic, combining research-driven design with the sustainable commercial performance of each project.  

WMT
The team responsible for residential and lifestyle sectors. Its core concept, "inspiring turning points in life," embodies new inspirations and forms while stimulating new lifestyles. All of our designs express a flexible, practical approach to relaxation and personalized concepts, ultimately creating warm and welcoming living spaces. Over the years, this has formed WMT's core value—"Comfortable life comes from WMT."

SIBAN
The team responsible for interior FF&E design services. It focuses on the intersection of social architectural spaces, innovative commerce, and daily life. SIBAN has years of experience in FF&E design and master planning for international home brand exhibition spaces, giving them a global vision and deep understanding of brand display. In residential FF&E styling, the team focuses on reflecting non-replicable, unique living states within private spaces, rejecting purely formalistic, decorative arrangements.

JEDI 404
The creative incubation team responsible for product design and fixture research and development. JEDI 404 seeks to construct original design concepts through "non-existent" and unconventional paths, perceiving and gathering raw emotions from design practice and multidimensional spaces. JEDI 404 builds a boundaryless platform where diverse imaginations converge to co-create infinite possibilities of objects.