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The Long Table as a Spatial Protocol: Designing Conditions for Gathering and Pause

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 07:30:00 +0000

A long table can sit almost anywhere and still do the same work. It can stretch beneath a market canopy, run along a school dining hall, or occupy the center of a shared living room, and it immediately changes the room's temperature.

HE INTERACTION Community / PMT Partners

韩爽 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In 2022, the HE Foundation launched the " HE INTERACTION" project, and jointly with Shunde District Social Innovation Center, GUANGZHOU ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, and 7+5 Public Welfare Design Organization, launched a community art creation plan based on the excavation and research of local culture - through space transformation, exhibitions, and continuous output of multicultural activities, talents are gradually transformed, promoting their promotion of regional artistic vitality and building a sustainable regional art ecology. It is committed to building a platform for community and social interaction and integration, forming a social network that pays attention to community art creation issues, and gradually becoming a model of regional continuous innovation, providing a practical model for the overall exploration of community art development in China.

Rhythms of the Soil: Architecture as Agroecology

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At a time of ecological collapse and rising food insecurity, architecture is increasingly called upon to engage not only with landscapes but with the systems that sustain and regenerate them. Among these systems, agriculture occupies a paradoxical role, as both a leading contributor to environmental degradation and a potential agent of ecological recovery. Industrial farming has depleted soils, fragmented habitats, and driven climate change through monocultures, fossil-fuel dependency, and territorial standardization. In response, agroecology has emerged as a counter-practice rooted in biodiversity, local knowledge, and the cyclical rhythms of nature. It reframes farming not as extraction, but as regeneration of ecosystems, communities, and the soil itself.

OneAvenue Flagship Store of TFD / PMT Partners

Xiaohang Hou — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:00:00 +0000

This 500sqm store is divided into “island” and “bark house” installations, each covering an area of dozens of square meters. The 1-2 sqm island shelves and hangers could also be the display window of an independent designer. Connected together, they form the whole picture of the store. The space installations are built into the forms of grass, trees, islands, mountains, and stones with varying distances between each other. The moving lines flow across the space like streams. The visitors feel like they are in the nature of mountains, forests, and valleys.

CDB Bank & Minsheng Bank Financial Building / ZHUBO DESIGN

Yu Xin Li — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000

The project is located near the Civic Center in Futian district, CBD of Shenzhen. Theoretically, this is a good location, but unfortunately, there are already many tall buildings in the surroundings so that the project can hardly be seen on the arterial roads. Besides, although this block is small, it’s owned by two banks. From the perspective of urban design, it suggests that through the overall design and development of the two parties, a “shared hall” should be built as an entrance at the center of the plot. But the two owners were not willing to build a real “shared hall”, for fear of ownership problems of shared properties. These are the two major difficulties of this design.

AIRICE Future Agriculture Cultural Tourism Town / PMT Partners

罗靖琳 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:00:00 +0000

AIRICE Future Agriculture Cultural Tourism Town is a vision of future agriculture, based on 5G technology, big data, artificial intelligence, UAVs, and other front-end technical support. It is also an agriculture cultural tourism demonstration pilot that combines eco-tourism, industrial demonstrations, and technology model promotion. Therefore, at the beginning of accepting the commission to design the project, the concept of a “Future ALL” was proposed, that is, to reflect the futuristic in all links, which includes: Future Agriculture, Future Landscape & Future Life. It strives to show the impact of cutting-edge technologies on the world of material production.

Courtyard House at the foot of the Great Wall / IAPA Design Consultants

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:00:00 +0000

Courtyard houses are a famous type of historic residence mostly found in Beijing. Courtyards used to be essential living spaces for Beijing locals. ”A house, a courtyard, a story” is the design theme used throughout the project. This theme inspired the project design and through the design process, traditional Chinese architecture was reinterpreted.

Lan Chuang Space / BEING ARCHITECTS

Collin Chen — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Located in the middle of the park, the project is a two-story square production workshop, which is almost surrounded by tall factories, Only the southwest corner is adjacent to the outdoor transportation pipeline corridor and connected with the external square. The newly implanted function is a new type of comprehensive club integrating office sharing, fitness, light catering, buyer's shop, road show lecture and art exhibition. We hope to provide people with a new space for modern social activities, convey the new concept of healthy life, and reactivate this area through people's participation.

SUPIN Life Style Store / PMT Partners

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Shameen，Guangzhou, one of the foreign concessions in Chinese modern history, has an indelible imprint of history with European architectures standing in great numbers. Under the background of the metropolis in a rapid change, it has already become a place where people experience exotic customs and fashionable petty bourgeoisies gather. SUPIN+LIVING PAVILION stands out from the spring tide of industrial upgrading, located in a three-story western-style building on the north side of Shameen Island.

EASE Leisure & Art / PMT Partners

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:00:00 +0000

During the Republic of China era, Dongshan District of Guangzhou was inhabited by members of the dignitaries and the privileged class, whose luxurious lifestyle that was marked by the celebrity parties, villa clusters, blocks of Western houses and splendid attires have become the folklore of the generation. Having witnessed the country’s ups and downs, today’s Dongshan District, moistly and gently cleansed by the flow of time, is becoming more charming with the modest scene of the common families in Lingnan, which is also where EASE Leisure & Art (abbr. EASE) is located.

Heytea Daydreamer / A.A.N ARCHITECTS

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:00:00 +0000

Distance affects the way of communication
Dr. Edward Hall, an American anthropologist who divides four different types of distances from interpersonal relationships, and the renowned socialist Erving Goffman defined “to meet” as "the constant mutual attention of people in public places."

UnitedDATA Wuhan Office / PMT Partners

Collin Chen — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 19:00:00 +0000

The concept of time travel is the behavior of people using space, a linear relationship between space and time from the beginning to the end, and an action leading to the future. Standing in the long and narrow space in the face of the original status, an idea of designing an office with new identity instead of traditional offices arises spontaneously. This space should have a strong directivity with simple lines pointing to a vanishing point, through which, giving the users the feeling of crossing the veil of time instead of just an office position.

TARA MATA Fashion Boutique / PMT Partners

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:00:00 +0000

TARA MATA Designer Boutique is a fashion store and living hall of Mantai Clothing Company. The project located in Yongkang City, Zhejiang Province, China, is designed by PMT Partners. As a unique business model, fashion buyers’ shop takes the distinctive ideas and lifestyle of target customers tastes as its benchmark in order to protect the unique taste and sense of fashion style.

Seaforth House / IAPA Design Consultant

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:00:00 +0000

SEAFORTH HOUSE is located in Sydney’s stunning Northern Beaches. Perched on a quiet street in close proximity to Middle Harbour, Seaforth, it offers magnificent views of the South. Clever design ensured we maximized the surrounding landscapes as well as the site itself, taking full advantage of the views facing the harbor and the sunlight from the North.