Five key projects by architect and Dezeen Awards China judge Ting Yu
Shanghai-based architect Ting Yu has joined Dezeen Awards China 2023 as a judge. Here, he selects five projects that best reflect his work. More
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Ting Yu, Ilse Crawford and Min Chen named judges for Dezeen Awards China 2023
Wutopia Lab founder Ting Yu, British designer Ilse Crawford, Design Shanghai director Zhuo Tan and industrial designers Min Chen and Michael Young have been announced as Dezeen Awards China judges for 2023. More
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Wutopia Lab tops underground museum in China with sweeping concrete roof
Shanghai-based studio Wutopia Lab has created Deep Time Palace, an underground museum in Changchun featuring a wavy concrete roof with eye-shaped openings. More
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Wutopia Lab reveals "shimmering whale" Shanghai museum with arched copper shell
Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has created Copper Blockhouse, a multi-functional cultural space located inside a copper arch in Shanghai, China. More
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Wutopia Lab completes museum and dance studio influenced by Chinese ink drawings
The inky brushstrokes of traditional Chinese paintings influenced the fluid forms of this museum complex that architecture firm Wutopia Lab has designed for a property developer in Qinhuangdao. More
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Sliced openings reveal internal layout of Suzhou guesthouse by Wutopia Lab
Shanghai studio Wutopia Lab has completed The White Section Homestay, a guesthouse near Suzhou with rooms that appear to float within the building volume. More
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Wutopia Lab creates chocolate-informed pavilion on Shanghai farm
Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has created a cloud-shaped pavilion called the Shrine of Everyman on a shallow pool designed to look like melted chocolate near Shanghai, China. More
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Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU wrap bookstore in perforated facade to mimic clouds
Architecture studio Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU have used layers of perforated metal to transform two disused buildings on the banks of Taizhou's Yongning River into a bright and modern bookshop. More
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Wutopia Lab's latest bookstore in Shanghai borrows from traditional Chinese garden design
Bookshelves made from perforated aluminium and quartz stone double as partition walls in this maze-like Shanghai bookstore by local architecture studio Wutopia Lab. More
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Wutopia Lab creates dreamlike minimalist forest in Huzhou
A three-petal motif is repeated as canopies, skylights and screen perforations across this ethereal landscape by Wutopia Lab, located outside a sales office in Huzhou, China. More
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Wutopia inserts inverted triangular lightwell into book shop
Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has renovated the Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore in Wuhan, China, inserting a shard-like glass lightwell that pierces through six stories. More
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China's Lolly-Laputan cafe is designed to be an educational "fairyland" for kids
A drawing of an imaginary fairyland was Wutopia Lab's starting point for the design of this cafe for children in Dalian, China. More
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White steel and mirrored halls form sci-fi themed architectural model museum in China
Wutopia Lab has used over 5,000 white steel pipes to form the structure of The Last Redoubt, China's first museum for architectural models. More
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Wutopia Lab wraps visitor centre with striped wall inspired by nautical shirts
Shanghai-based architecture studio Wutopia Lab has revamped a tourism company's entrance office into the Striped House visitor centre in Qinhuangdao, China. More
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Wutopia Lab lays out Shanghai Sanctum bookstore to be map of the human psyche
Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab has transformed Building 25 of the Sinan Mansions in Shanghai into a bookstore that takes inspiration from the human body and mind. More
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Wutopia Lab's pink and blue houses explore ideas of masculine and feminine
Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab painted a pair of houses pink and blue, filling one with meat and the other with flowers, to explore constructs around gender and food for an architecture biennale in Shenzhen. More
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Pleated shutters enclose cylindrical enamelware museum and cultural centre by Wutopia Lab
Perforated-aluminium screens zigzag around the walls of this cylindrical arts museum in Shanghai, which was designed by Wutopia Lab and features a 1970s-style rockery. More
