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(SO)What Chengdu

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(SO)What Chengdu Project Informations Designer: Various Associates Location: The Atrium, Chengdu, Sichuan, China | View Map Year: 2021 Category: Shops Description: Free Soul on the StagePreludeDon't know Don't care I choose what I like So what? Taking "Don't know, Don't care" as the core brand values,(SO)What advocates that every female can find her own dressing style in the boutique, and represents the unrestrained and independent characters of contemporary females. As conceiving this iconic fashion boutique based in Chengdu, Various Associates focused on how to truthfully express and reinterpret the unique local cultural context through design approaches. After thorough considerations, the design team turned to the profound opera culture in Chengdu, as there is a popular folk saying that Shu Operais the best in the world. The project faces the north...
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(a)grandir Paris

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(a)grandir Paris Project Informations Designer: Philippe Gazeau Location: Paris, France Year: 2012 Category: Individual Buildings Description: This study is the outcome of my longstanding commitment to quality housing for all, the need to take forward typologies that are currently obsolete, at a time when there is an urgent need to build tens of thousands of houses each year on new land, and fast. For us architects, the architecture of housing should be a shared value, a common basis on which the contemporary town should be built up. So it is crucially important to look for the economic resources whereby housing architecture can be made central to urban policy. It is because the programme is ordinary that architecture needs to be extraordinarily inventive. The dynamics of commercialism have destructured and restructured our towns in line with their own logic. The growth of the con...
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