Crossboundaries Architects

Uponor Office

The Beijing office of Uponor should function as a standard office but also as a presentation space to introduce new products and hold seminars. It was clear since the beginning that the relation between these two areas was the main driver of the design.
Layout.
Our solution first separates longitudinally the 150 mq in two parts: [...]

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Zhongxian underwater exhibition hall

crossboundaries architects together with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design is proposing a new urban planning for the central area of the city of Zhongxian.
Recently there were changes in the urban policy of Zhongxian, main reasons for those changes were:
1. the building of the Three Gorges Dam,  which caused the rise of the river water [...]

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Zhong Xian Bai Juyi 白居易 museum

crossboundaries architects together with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design is proposing a new urban planning for the central area of the city of Zhongxian.
Recently there were changes in the urban policy of Zhongxian, main reasons for those changes were:
1. the building of the Three Gorges Dam,  which caused the rise of the river water [...]

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Yizhuan subway interior

Brief.
The competition asked for a proposal for the interior design of the Yizhuan subway line that will be built in 2012 in the south-east part of Beijing. During the design process we got convinced that a specific design proposal would not solve the problems that the quickly growing subway of Beijing is facing. A subway in 2012 [...]

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Zhong Xian Riverfront Revitalization

Zhongxian riverfront revitalization.

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ARCHICREATION

We are been guest editors for archicreation magazine. This special issue focused on the dialogue between six studios of the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design.
Architect: BIAD International Studio& crossboundaries architects
Location: Beijing,China
Client: Archicreation Magazine
Data: 180 pages
Design Period: Augest 2009
Issue: September 2009

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Guo Gong Zhuang

The site is on the boundary of Beijing city and its surrounding suburbia, at the end of the metro line No.9 and at the starting point of another new metro line to the outside of Beijing. An exchange metro station has to be placed together with a huge maintaining yard for the trains; the [...]

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Aimer Lingerie Factory (previous scheme)

Aimer Lingerie is a leading national company in producing under- and bodyware and started their business back in 1992.
In recent years the importance of lingerie and lingerie related products increased more and more, therefore the client is now planning to build a factory which is not only housing a production line, but is somehow able [...]

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Liu Li Qiao

The competition entry is trying to integrate the proposed subway and bus transportation hub into a vision of a new urban environment, consisting of a generous park, a brand new living quarter, and a commercial business district on a prime real estate in close proximity to the park.

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Wangfujing No. 45 / 王府井45号

The lot of the future hotel is located on the northern part of the Wangfujing Street in Beijing. The site closes the lot between the existing FuHao Hotel and the Wangfujing Street.
The given lot offers a buildable area of roughly 37m x 45m, of which the long side is facing towards the street. The original [...]

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