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PAGEONE – Vinyl Concept POLPAS / llLab.

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:00:00 +0000

At POLPAS in the Olympic Forest Park, Beijing, PAGEONE is set to unveil its inaugural Vinyl Concept Store. This new venture aspires to craft a fresh perspective that diverges from its predecessors and to encapsulate a novel chapter in the annals of PAGEONE's history.

Hive Center for Contemporary Art / Penda China Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After 100 days of renovation, the Hive Center for Contemporary Art was officially unveiled in November. The renovation task was undertaken by architect Sun Dayong, who designed and renovated the 3,300-square-meter gallery space as a whole. As the largest single-building gallery in the 798 Art District, the Hive Center for Contemporary Art has attracted much attention in recent years. 17 years ago, it was transformed from a factory into the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (ICCA), a non-profit organization, and was later taken over by the Hive Center for Contemporary Art. As the saying goes, there is never a best time, and the best time is now. In a time of recent economic recession, the Hive hopes to improve its own and the industry's standards by means of this renovation in 2024. This renovation can be interpreted as the 3.0 version of the 798 Art District. 798 has developed from the earliest 1.0 version of the factories to the 2.0 version of the art spaces with industrial style characteristics. Today, 798 has become a globally influential gathering place for international contemporary art, so the 3.0 version of the art space pays more attention to the artwork itself and provides the best exhibition environment for the artwork. Looking to the future and the world, the renovation of the Hive Center for Contemporary Art erased the traces of industrial factories and instead created a pure white box space that is more international and contemporary.

HERmit Space-Beijing MAHA Art Gallery / RSAA/Büro Ziyu Zhuang

Andreas Luco — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The MAHA HERmit Space is located within the central park of a high-end community in the core area of Beijing. It consists of three distinct areas "Islet Space," "Cave Space," and "Ravine Space." The original site was three independent sunken courtyards in the underground parking lot of the community. BUZZ, while preserving the special value of the site, redefined them through three different design approaches, endowing the space with a completely new experience. This redesign aimed to strengthen its community and landscape attributes to meet the demands of a contemporary art space functioning as a composite content hub.

Karry's Peral Restaurant / ZHZ studio

Valeria Silva — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:00:00 +0000

"Kai Zhen（Karry's Peral Restaurant is located in Sanlitun, one of Beijing's busiest commercial districts, and our renovation project is in an annex building of the #024 commercial complex. The project is located across from the Sanlitun Embassy District, surrounded by trees on both sides of the road, and because of the hustle and bustle of the street, it creates a quiet dining experience in the middle of it all. We have explored deeply the community and commercial culture of the trendy and bustling Sanlitun neighborhood, and we have created a simple and introverted retail space that allows people to pause by reversing the traditional commercial design and simplifying the complexity into simplicity. We want people to walk on the street, occasionally see the faint warm light, smell the aroma of food, and feel the space of the people and places - this is the hustle and bustle of a prosperous city.

An Atlas of Superpower / waa

Valeria Silva — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Narrative. A sports centre for the family focuses on Body Movement awareness and development, through play. The BE1ST an “Atlas of Superpower” is a collection of special qualities we can observe in the world around us. waa was commissioned to design a series of family centre’s focusing on sports activity. We believe to collect superpowers of All age family mermbers development, each BE1ST will represent one of these superpowers. The concept focus’s around a fictitious mythical island which situates specific locations these special super organisms embodying superpowers. In this first edition of the series we selected arid land observing plants with ‘superpowers’ to overcome extreme climates. Cacti can survive in extremely arid environments by storing water in their stems, and their robust root systems and needle-like leaves provide protection. We have simulated three representative cactus plants within the venue: saguaro (Carnegiea), Golden Barrel (Echinocactus) and Prickly pears (Opuntia).

Nanxiaoying Heating Plant Renovation / Origin Architect

Valeria Silva — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Origin. Against the background of increasingly stringent environmental governance, coal-fired factories in many urban centers in China cannot avoid the fate of declining. The Beijing Nanxiaoying Heating Plant, built in the late 1980s, was shut down ten years ago. The once-hot regional energy center has become a desolate place that is incompatible with surrounding residential areas. The factory area is ruined, and memories have been blurred. Now it is facing a new opportunity, which will be transformed into an open urban block integrating office, commerce, culture, and sports - YueJieJinhui Park. Origin Architect hopes to use this external intervention to reveal the internal characteristics of the site that have been concealed and suppressed, allowing the abandoned heating plant to regain its individuality, dignity, and strength; While injecting new vitality into the future, building a gaze, connection, and journey back to the passing time, where the past and future overlap and the extinguished fire reignited again.