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Aimer Suzhou Headquarters / Crossboundaries

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:21:00 +0000

A Design Rooted in Experience – Blending Digital and Physical Spaces - In a world where online shopping dominates, physical spaces must go beyond simple transactions and create immersive experiences. Aimer Suzhou headquarters embraces this shift, offering an environment that fosters deep brand interaction and connects with people on a human level. "In designing Aimer Suzhou headquarters, we sought to create a building that reflects both the brand's identity and the evolving nature of commercial spaces. Flowing forms, layered transparency, and multifunctional spaces turn architecture into an extension of the brand itself," says Binke Lenhardt, co-founder of Crossboundaries.

Tiny Home on the Water / Crossboundaries

Hana Abdel — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Relax & Decelerate - With global warming, conflicts, the energy crisis, and past pandemic travel restrictions, it's understandable that the urgency for a self-sufficient, mobile refuge has surged worldwide. Crossboundaries redesigned a fully solar-powered motorboat with high-end tiny-home characteristics functioning as a slow-motion traveling nest. The exterior’s resemblance to a bus on the water sparked the interest of the new owner, and with enough space to invite family and friends for a getaway, she named this personal retreat “Fàng Sōng 放松”, which translates from Chinese into “Relax” and relates to her previous home in Beijing.

Crossboundaries' Transformable Workplace / Crossboundaries

Collin Chen — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Background. By the end of 2020, the two most significant typologies for everyday use as a society were abruptly shaken by COVID-19. The home as a place of life and the office as a place of work were under reconsideration. Most worldwide surveys indicate that more than 65% of people expect to work in a hybrid scenario after the pandemic. Which kind of synergies can be discovered in a new ecology between environmental, social, and cultural dimensions? The answer should be a living environment that actively transforms the office’s modes.

Shenzhen SkyPark / Crossboundaries

Xiaohang Hou — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Contextual consistency - on a Macro, Meso, Micro Level. The architects started with reviewing the overall urban context of the project (macro). Then, continued by gradually zooming in on the local circumstances of the site, examining the surrounding educational, commercial, and residential facilities in relation to potential accesses and connections in between the river and the bay area (meso). Finally, on the given design site, they also reassessed the existing building of the Metro terminal including its parking(micro). The first challenge is the 1,2 km long stretched building complex. With an overall height of about 15 m, a width of 70 m at the widest, and 50 m at the narrowest point, the original complex completely cut off nearby neighborhoods from accessing the bay, neither adding any aesthetic value nor serving a specific functional purpose.

Songzhuang Micro Community Park / Crossboundaries

Yu Xin Li — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Understanding the challenge of offering versatile and inclusive communal facilities, a masterplan competition with international participation to reaffirm the importance of the new model of “Art City” was organized in 2018. In this framework, Crossboundaries was commissioned to regenerate a linear streetscape adjacent to a parking lot close to the Xiaopu Cultural Plaza into a lively outdoor community park. This project is the first realized vibrant design of many to come that will follow the lead of the new communal spirit.

Qkids English Center / Crossboundaries

罗靖琳 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Background. Qkids, a hugely successful online education platform, known for its high-quality online English courses to so far to more than 800,000 students, has over the past years spent lots of resources and efforts in developing a narrative game-based online curriculum to spur and stimulate the kids' curiosity in learning, consequently helping them to grow into small global citizens. Its current venture is the expansion from online into off-line teaching, and the establishment of Qkids English Centers, aimed at 4-12 years old children who live in Chinese first-tier cities. These study centers are to reflect - just like the online platform - the Qkids educational philosophy of providing a long-lasting, immersive, and fun learning experience. The first one to be opened is located in Xiamen, China.

Jinlong Prefab School / Crossboundaries

罗靖琳 — Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In 2018, Crossboundaries designed a 36-classroom school, to be located in the newly established Pingshan district in the Chinese metropolis Shenzhen. The venture was not only an attempt to maximize the potential of prefab architecture but also an opportunity to realize and to contribute to a project of significant social impact.

Pop-up Campus Installation – Infitity 6 / Crossboundaries

罗靖琳 — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Crossboundaries’ latest installation is made out of 12 shipping containers and is imagined as a fun inducing manifesto of future schools, where you can experience and imagine little glimpses of its principles. The installation is a part of the group exhibition for 2019 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale themed around potential models for future schools and the possibilities of prefabrication and modularization in the realm of educational buildings. The group exhibition contains five installations in total, all utilizing the standard shipping container module provided by the organizers.

Shuoji Kindergarten / Crossboundaries

Collin Chen — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 23:00:00 +0000

"It takes a village to raise a child!" – An African proverb that underpins the value of a community being engaged in a child’s upbringing. The diversity of people and places that create it, offering them experiences to grow in safe and healthy environments. However, today in China’s rural areas, more and more children are in the primary care of their grandparents or live in boarding schools. This mass shift in social structure has dissolved some the natural connection between children and their families and communities.

Family Box / Crossboundaries

Gracia Vera — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Yes, it takes a village to raise a child.” - Hillary Clinton

Jiangsu Beisha Kindergarten / Crossboundaries

Collin Chen — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

On the initiative of the local government facing shortage of preschool education in rural area, Crossboundaries was commissioned in 2015 to design a kindergarten for the Beisha Village in Fu’ning County, Jiangsu, the first province in China that has accelerated the development of high-quality preschool education throughout urban and rural areas.

Infinite Living / Crossboundaries

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Modern China is a place of continuously shifting socioeconomics. By 2020, more than 60% of the population will reside in urban areas – a dramatic increase from the 26% of 1990. This massive urbanization and densification puts tremendous pressure on both cities and citizens to adapt quickly. Soon the majority of people in China will live in mid- or high-rise residential towers, whose standardized layouts will become increasingly unaccommodating for the new nuclear family unit, digital nomad, or co-living / co-working community.

Chaoyang Future School / Crossboundaries

罗靖琳 — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Chaoyang Future School, in Beijing, is the latest iteration of Peking University’s pedagogic model for China’s future creators, in their continued exploration with Crossboundaries to manifest places and spaces that embody their collective vision.

Peking University Affiliated High School / Crossboundaries

尚夕云 — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:00:00 +0000

In Beijing, The Affiliated High School of Peking University is open for class in its first term, its interior and adjustments to architecture are designed by Crossboundaries. On an existing campus in the north west of the city the design package extended to 26,000m2 of this public middle and high school extension and challenges current educational ideas in China. Its spatial design becomes an educational instrument, foreseeing the latent needs of the future school based on the schools' spirit of interaction, inspiration and individualization.

Zhengtong BMW Museum, Beijing / Crossboundaries

杨奡 — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:00:00 +0000

A museum of vintage BMWs is opening this month in Beijing, China. Crossboundaries’ design for the gallery space brings forth the exclusiveness of the cars while it references the Chinese collector with a local touch.

Private Clubhouse / Crossboundaries

杨奡 — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:00:00 +0000

Located in the Hebei Province, the building serves as a private clubhouse to host the owner’s VIP guests during their visits.

Soyoo Joyful Growth Center / Crossboundaries

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:00:00 +0000

Since 2002, the overpopulated city of Zhengzhou has been developing its new financial center, Zhengdong New Area, within China’s Central Plains Economic Region. The area, once dubbed by international media as one of China’s largest “ghost districts”, is where Crossboundaries’ latest completed project - Soyoo Joyful Growth Center, is situated. The building is part of a triumvirate of desolate round buildings, never used since it was built as a business center 10 years ago.

Teabank / Crossboundaries

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:00:00 +0000

A two-floor teahouse of 1980sqm, Teabank is situated amidst tech corporations and startups in the new Shenzhen Software Industrial Base. As the first listed tea business in China, Shenbao conceived an offline store to complete its ecommerce with a brick-and-mortar tea experience in the burgeoning online-to-offline (O2O) retail market.