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Longyou Tourist Center / atelier tao+c

Andreas Luco — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Crossing the Bridge over the Qu River leads to Tingtangxu Village — Adjacent to the riverside road, each household in the village adopts a vernacular house with an irregular front yard. The irregular shape of the yards are usually delineated by the interwoven village paths which were set by generations of neighborly negotiations, as a spatial reflection of the rural social structure.

Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund / atelier tao+c

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The West Bund in Shanghai, a historic hub for transportation, logistics, and production, has undergone significant transformation over the past a few years. Following major urban renewal projects along the Huangpu River, the riverside spaces have become a vibrant destination for outdoor activities and cultural events, attracting both locals and visitors alike. BlueBottle Coffee, designed by atelier tao+c, is situated in a specific area of the West Bund that was once home to the Shanghai Cement Factory (1920-2009), with the east side overlooking a shipyard, a historical remnant of the former site. The design of the Blue Bottle Coffee is a thoughtful response to its surroundings, integrating the industrial past of the site with the present urban context.

Element Store / atelier tao+c

Valeria Silva — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Design Statement. No. 1381-1 Yuyuan Road, stands set back 30 meters from the bustling main street, leaving a modest forecourt that separates it from the urban hustle. Home to Element - a fashion boutique in Shanghai that has attracted much attention in recent years, the modest three-story building is surrounded by rows of houses and commercial buildings, presenting only a front façade to passersby. It appears quiet and restraint amidst the lively neighborhood, whilst could be easily overlooked. Through meticulous observations of the urban interface and detailed investigations of the building's inherent qualities, Atelier tao+c has reimagined a community-oriented renovation of Element's store.

naïve bookstore / atelier tao+c

Andreas Luco — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Since its inception, the publishing institute - naïve has set up bookstores in several cities that accommodate books and coffee to intrigue readers' behaviors within its conceptualized space. On a snowfield of Aranya Chongli in northern China, atelier tao+c conceived the new naïve bookstore as a luminous space in the midst of ice and snow, seamlessly integrated with the surrounding landscape, climate and nature. The existing site is a bare concrete space of about 400 sqm with a partially double height ceiling, next to the snow-covered slopes and firtree forest on the south side.

Magy Upper Apartment Renovation / atelier tao+c

Andreas Luco — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Built in 1936, Magy Apartment was a historical residential building on Wulumuqi Road in Shanghai. The client rented a small studio on the upper floor, eager to have “a comfortable interior that one would feel poised even being confined for a few months”. The architect designed the project in a special condition from March to May in 2022 when the city was locked down.

Over Bakery / atelier tao+c

Valeria Silva — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 01:00:00 +0000

With a length of 730 meters and a width of 5 meters merely, Lixi Road is not straight. Within this narrow street, historical residences, and aged community houses together with new office buildings have been placed to streamline and formed several twisted street corners, where the evolvement of city streets is traceable. The fabric indicates it is not the street that generates buildings, but the buildings that generate the street, and the uniquely organic feature of Lixi Road is endowed by these buildings, an ordinary road in Shanghai, tranquil yet vibrant.

ZIIN Beijing Store / atelier tao+c

Collin Chen — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Atelier tao+c has transformed an old textile warehouse into a showroom for ZIIN, an emerging furniture brand. The project site is part of Langyuan Station, which features a warehouse with a pitched roof and brick walls built in the 60s from last century. Two intersected square frameworks were erected, meticulously rotated at 45 degrees, staying sole as an individual structure while also connected to the original brick wall, which forms a separate “house within a house” journey. Atelier tao+c sought to balance the relationship between the existing site with new functions, exhibition and sale, background, and objects in the aged industrial space.

A Private Reading Room / atelier tao+c

Collin Chen — Fri, 27 May 2022 01:00:00 +0000

It’s an internal reading room for a team, a shared study room among a group of friends. The third space between public and private, living and working.

SPMA Store / Atelier TAO+C

Xiaohang Hou — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:00:00 +0000

On ground floor of a 1930’s old house in Shanghai, atelier tao+c transformed the former residential space into a boutique retail space for SPMA. It is a typical lane house, the structure is made of load bearing brick walls and wooden floor. The layout is restricted by existing walls, with the rooms arranged one after another and give a strong sense of depth. The architect left the existing wooden ceiling and old doors intact, and the brick walls were preserved with white limewash.

Common Reader Bookstore / Atelier TAO+C

Collin Chen — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Atelier tao+c has designed a bookstore to provide a traditional reading experience for Common Reader, of which the name originated from the book [The Common Reader] by Virginia Woolf. The designer and the owner reached a common understanding that the bookstore should not only be a storage room for books but also a place for collecting social memories, experience, and for knowledge absorbing.

MOMIC Watch Assembly Store / Atelier TAO+C

罗靖琳 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Dark green, honeydew, and white marble blocks, interspersed with accents of orange acrylic and blue metal, the first concept store designed by atelier tao+c for an emerging watch assembly brand MOMIC (Moments of Magic), featured simple and unique geometric volumes, superimposed on the precise combination of colors, enduing the space with a radical and straightforward and expressive force, capturing customers' attention from the beginning of their journeys into the store.

JOLOR Showroom / Atelier TAO+C

Collin Chen — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Located within the site of an old minery factory in Shanghai, Atelier tao+c has transformed an old 435 square-meter warehouse into a minimal, yet unique continuum with open spatial design. The one-storey building had undergone many shifts in function since 1958, during which much of the original industrial characters were stripped away. Only the triangular roof trusses and the dormer window over the roof still have the hints of what factory building look like within that period.

Capsule Hotel and Bookstore in Village Qinglongwu / Atelier TAO+C

Collin Chen — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:00:00 +0000

Hidden in the deep forests of Tonglu in Zhejiang province, Qinglongwu is an ancient village named after a stream passing through. An old house of wood structure and mud walls is entrenched along a road in the village, facing the green mountains in the south and east side and a lower courtyard in the north. Commissioned by the client, Atelier tao+c redesigned and regenerated this 232sqm old building by inserting a capsule hotel that can accommodate 20 people, a community bookstore and library into the 7.2-meter high two-stories space. The biggest challenge to the architects, and the key to the design, is to ensure the privacy of the accommodation area while giving openness and continuity to the public areas within such a compact space.

JHW Store / Atelier TAO+C

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Sun, 26 May 2019 02:00:00 +0000

A greyscale palette of two materials - the washed granolithic plaster juxtaposed with brushed stainless steel, one is rough and dull while the other is sterile and reflective, which formed an austere monochrome space for this two-stories men-wear select shop.

U-shape room / Atelier TAO+C

Collin Chen — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Located on the ground floor of an old garden house, it’s a U-shape room with a full-faceted semi-circular window facing the back garden. Like many other 1930’s houses in French Concession in Shanghai, the house was originally built and inhabited by one bourgeois family, then was distribute to several families. Each family occupied one room and share the common kitchens and bathrooms on the other side of corridor. After many years of living together, people find the poor hygiene condition and lack of privacy getting more and more unbearable and moved out the house one after another in recent years. The 42sqm room was once the ballroom of the house and then a couple lived in it for decades, eventually moved out when they getting old.

Shine Moda Flagship Store / Atelier tao+c

罗靖琳 — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Shine Moda is tailor-made bridal brand based in Shanghai, we are invited to design their first flagship store combined the function of a showroom and 4 large dressing rooms.

The House with a Tiny Patio / Atelier TAO+C

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Lane house (or Li long) is a unique residential typology of Shanghai. The urban fabric of the city was once densely constituted of such kind, now only a handful remained. Located in Shanghai French concession area, the project was to remodel such a 1930s’ lane house with a courtyard to accommodate three bedrooms with independent restrooms and facilities meeting the users’ daily needs.

Architect's Studio / Atelier TAO+C

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:00:00 +0000

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