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Shanghai: Projects, Journals & Ideas

7 Projects 32 Journals 2 Publications

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Shanghai serves as a testing ground for contemporary architectural practice, where designers engage with rapid urbanization, mixed-use development, and the integration of heritage with modern infrastructure. The city's scale and complexity attract international and local practices exploring innovative spatial solutions.

The community documents projects ranging from master planning and educational facilities to retail environments and creative office spaces, examining how architects respond to Shanghai's density through strategies like courtyards, vertical organization, and material expression.

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Windy and 3 others

Another Way to Accompany

We apply yarn structure to our design as an innovation. Through this design, we want to convey that : the death of our loved ones doesn't mean the end. They become the air we breathe, the scenery in our eyes, the shade in summer, the fragrant smell and the eternal power in our hearts. Don't be so sad. Their departure is just another way to stay with us.

Guillaume

Shanghai Tianshang. A metropolitan dream, on the sea and above the sky. (Master Thesis)

Shanghai Tianshang is a system incorporating aerial public spaces within buildings, aimed to solve urban sprawls issues by being applied on the majority of the city by 2080. The polysemy of its spaces and its uses is a new way of making the dense and human vertical city of the future, allowing the inhabitants to re-appropriate all dimensions of the city.

Marie

A Spring for Souls

Rebirth of Shanghainese mourning spaces Between modernity and tradition, a lasting place for death.

Kevin

Hongkou Cemetery: A City of the Dead

The design seeks to respond to the ever-increasing need for more accessible burial places in Shanghai by exploring a balance between efficient density and quality of space.

Ruijun and jishi

Bank of Shanghainese

This project proposes a bank of Shanghainese language, a bank of Shanghai memory. The philosophy of this design is to create an urban strategy that reacts to the ever-losing local vitality and identity under the background of highly developed communication technology and restores Shanghai?s generic trends.

Flexel

πr2

Circle of life is one’s journey. Occupation of life is one’s meaning. Together, they would make impacts on descendants. πr2 is symbolic of this life-death philosophy. The design images the cemetery as a place where cremated remains would be transformed into the DNA of the plants and become visible again in the form of flowers.

Wang

Node of Evolution

On the basis of traditional planning and classical buildings, the evolution of city and building can have a strong sense of regionality and uniqueness. This evolution can only be explained clearly and thoroughly by the local people in local language and characters, but also make the local people have a strong sense of intimacy and belonging.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Huajian Group Wraps a Shanghai Primary School Around Circular Courtyards and Rooftop Gardens

A 23,000 square meter campus in Pudong's Tang Town replaces rigid corridors with curved pathways, planted voids, and orange canopies.

Shanghai

Children School

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Ippolito Fleitz Group Identity Architects Turn Eight Floors in Shanghai into a Vertical Creative City

Publicis Groupe's new headquarters in Xintiandi reimagines the office as a courtyard-driven urban landscape stacked across eight floors.

Shanghai

Office Building

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Kokaistudios Wraps a Shanghai Retail Podium in Horizontal Louvers That Echo Its Foster + Partners Neighbor

A four-storey glass-roofed gateway links an underground commercial valley to the revitalized north bank of Shanghai's Suzhou River.

Public Plaza

Shanghai

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

dongqi Design Turns Three Buildings in Shanghai's Jing'an District into a Raw Metal Complex

A 600-square-meter renovation in downtown Shanghai fuses a factory, a three-story block, and a single-story structure through exposed steel and galvanized

Shanghai

Cultural Architecture