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The Telegraph Hotel / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Valeria Silva — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The former Telegraph Building in Tbilisi is a monumental piece of Georgia's Soviet-era heritage. Designed in the 1960s by architects Lado Alexi-Meskhishvili and Teimuraz Mikashavidze and completed in the 1970s, this Brutalist landmark was awarded the State Prize of Georgia in 1983 along with the architects. Once serving as the city's central post office and telegraph office, it was more than just an infrastructural hub, but also a nerve center for communication and a vital civic space where the community gathered, making it a powerful symbol of connection and public life.

The Yard, Dalian Cultural Center / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Our design for a new mixed-use creative development is located in the heart of Dalian in close proximity to university campuses and software parks. The existing compound comprises 6 buildings dating back 40 years, which formerly served as offices, warehouses, and dormitories for a chemical research institute. Our design challenge was to find an architectural language that could unify the buildings which all have varying heights and distinct facades which have undergone previous renovation efforts. The most prominent building within the site is a former workers dormitory featuring a series of wooden gates and garage stalls used for repairs in the past.

Gros Bao Marseille / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Valeria Silva — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Located in the backdrop of the iconic Old Port of Marseille, the project inherited a beautiful historical building that is embedded in the urban fabric of the Canebière district. Occupying the first 3 storeys of the stone-clad landmark, Gros Bao, a Chinese canteen concept restaurant articulates and connects Cours Saint Louis, one of the symbolic squares of the Old Port, to the rue des Récolettes, an intimate street perpendicular to the Canebiere and a gate to the gentrifying rue d'Aubagne.

Blue Bottle Coffee Columbia Circle Cafe / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

韩爽 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Shanghai’s Columbia Circle began as a country club for expatriates in the 20s, became an industrial park in the 50s with the addition of 11 buildings, and most recently was renovated by OMA in 2016 into a vibrant mixed-use hub, now regarded as one of Shanghai's most successful urban regeneration projects. In the southern portion of Columbia Circle, where the emphasis is on public cultural activity spaces, Blue Bottle Coffee commissioned Neri&Hu to design a cafe that would exemplify their brand value of community culture, inviting people to connect and exchange over coffee.

THE LATTICE, Zhishan Residences / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

韩爽 — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Taipei is a modern metropolis that manages to maintain a sense of community and human scale; alongside new glassy tall buildings, there co-exists charming arcaded low rises from the 70s, while the sub-tropical climate allows for a lush greenery to thrive and interweave throughout the urban landscape. The project site is located in Zhishan, part of Tianmu in Shilin district, which has a particularly rich cultural background. It was a gateway for foreign cultures, and still today, it is the neighborhood where most international schools are located.

Jisifang Boutique & Woven Moonlight / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Paula Pintos — Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Four years after designing their first-ever flagship store in Shanghai, Neri&Hu again collaborates with Jisifang to create a duo of shops in the Panlong Tiandi development. The two adjacent spaces, one for Jisifang Boutique and the other for its sister brand Woven Moonlight, are each unique, yet share a common dialogue. Jisifang Boutique contains a wooden house, while Woven Moonlight is a concrete dwelling, each is tailored to its distinct brand identities and varying spatial requirements.

Piaget Flagship Boutique / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Collin Chen — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory. This relationship between the locus and the citizenry then becomes the city’s predominant image, both of architecture and of landscape, and as certain artifacts become part of its memory, new ones emerge.” –Aldo Rossi

Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts Extension / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Collin Chen — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

The Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts is located at the beginning section of Xi’an’s Datang Everbright City, south of the famed Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. The client asked for a new architectural icon at the East Entry of the museum. In response to the brief, Neri&Hu’s proposal takes the idea of a monolithic urban monument as the guiding concept to not only satisfy the museum’s newly expanded cultural and commercial functions but to also serve as an anchor and a durable symbol of social history for the surrounding urban fabric. Since the vicinity of the site is occupied by existing galleries, the design intervention minimizes the impact of the new building through careful consideration of the architectural massing and detailing.

Singapore Residence / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Collin Chen — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

The traditional Chinese courtyard house or siheyuan is a typology well-known for its illustration of Confucian ideals, accommodating extended family units wherein many generations live under one roof. To live under the same roof means to live together, and this metaphor is the nexus that ties the notion of community, especially in an intimate context, to the form crafted for this project. For this private residence commission, Neri&Hu is given a set of unique requests by the client: the new house constructed in place of the previous one should accommodate all three siblings, who as adults have outgrown their shared house; it should include a small memorial space in the form of a garden for their late mother; lastly, the new construction should retain the memory of the pitched-roof form, a defining feature of their childhood home.

Lao Ding Feng Beijing / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

July Shao — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Near the Northeast 5th Ring Road in Beijing, the project site is part of a once-thriving industrial area with its own train depot called the Langyuan Station. In the past, it was used for transporting goods in and out of Beijing.

Blue Bottle Zhang Yuan Cafe / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Collin Chen — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 07:00:00 +0000

At the end of the 19th century, Zhang Yuan, the most famous garden of Shanghai, developed into one of the earliest public and commercial spaces in modern China, exemplifying and leading the emergence of a new Chinese urban lifestyle. In 2022, as Zhang Yuan reopens to the public after a complete rehabilitation of its historic buildings, Neri&Hu was commissioned by Blue Bottle to create a retail space in one of the old Shikumen typology residences. Coffee initiates a dialogue between Shanghai’s rich history and the contemporary urban social realm.

The Structural Field / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Collin Chen — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 05:00:00 +0000

The concept for the Camerich pavilion stems from working through a number of dualities: nature/artifice, chaos/sanctuary, objects/the viewer, and tradition/innovation. Responding to the brand’s invitation to rethink exhibition design within the context of international furniture fairs, Neri&Hu explores the possibilities of creating a Structural Field, as a way not necessarily to arrive at a harmonious synthesis, but perhaps to hold these seeming contradictions in suspension for the duration of this temporary installation.

Nantou City Guesthouse / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Collin Chen — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Urban Village, or cheng-zhong-cun, is a phenomenon where the remnants of pre-industrial settlements are nestled amidst a seemingly modern metropolis. Nantou City, the site of Neri&Hu’s adaptive reuse project for an eleven-room guesthouse, is an example of such an urban village. Situated at the heart of Shenzhen, a burgeoning city with astonishing growth, Nantou City has evolved from a well-heeled ancient capital to the overcrowded inner city it is now. Visitors today are immediately immersed in the tightly knit alleys, plazas, and dead-ends, where residents, street vendors, unsupervised children, nomads alike roam.

Papi Restaurant / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Jiang Yao — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Nestled in the Grands Boulevards district of Paris’ 9th arrondissement, Papi is the latest brainchild of up-and-coming restaurateur Etienne Ryckeboer, following the success of his debut seafood bar Bulot Bulot. This time, he teams up with Neri&Hu to rehaul the façade and interior space, and with talented Japanese chef Akira Sugiura to serve a seasonal menu of modern Italian dishes.

The Chuan Malt Whisky Distillery / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Yu Xin Li — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:00:00 +0000

For over a thousand years Mount Emei has persisted as one of the most deeply spiritual places in China and was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The revered ground upon which our site sits has a rich history itself – through the centuries, this land was once an impressive monastery, the site of several historic battles, and a stopping point along many pilgrimage and trade routes. While any built remnants of the past no longer remain on site, its very emptiness is powerfully suggestive of all of its fabled memories. Three years ago, Neri&Hu won the design competition and took up the challenge of designing a distillery and home for Pernod Ricard’s first whisky in China, an opportunity to create a timeless architecture that speaks to the core values of a visionary new brand as well as the material and cultural heritage it aspires to sustain.

Fuzhou Teahouse / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Collin Chen — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The project draws inspiration from imagery uniquely associated with Fuzhou: the Jinshan Temple. This is a rare example of a temple structure built in the middle of a river in China. John Thomson was one of the first photographers ever to travel to the country and provided Western audiences with some of the first glimpses into the Far East. In the album Foochow and the River Min, which documented his legendary journey up the Min River, Thomson captured the ancient structure in its original state resting serenely above a floating rock in 1871. This would become a lasting image unmistakably identified with the city of Fuzhou.

Schindler City Headquarters / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Yu Xin Li — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Neri&Hu envisions a 32,400sqm headquarters for leading elevator manufacturer Schindler, as part of a new corporate master plan including offices, showrooms, factories, warehouses, and research facility. Situated in the developing industrial area of Jiading, just outside of Shanghai’s city center, Neri&Hu sought to overcome the sense of isolation and vastness that characterizes industrial facilities by emphasizing the integration of human-scale landscape elements and public spaces throughout the project.

Neri&Hu and Design Republic's New Home / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Collin Chen — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 06:00:00 +0000

As a practice, Neri&Hu has always sought after adaptive reuse projects, and we were immediately drawn to this project as yet another opportunity to reutilize an artifact of urban excess, to celebrate and even elevate the mundane. Within a small complex of ex-industrial buildings in the middle of bustling Jing’an Temple area, the site for renovation was a four-story nondescript office and dormitory building for the local telecoms company. Instead of just discarding it for a newer, yet still unremarkable, building as the previous tenant saw fit to do, we embraced instead the potential to transform it and give it a chance to not only survive, but thrive as a beacon for design.