Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   The warehouse of an old cotton textile factory outside the Chinese capital has been refurbished to harbor the main office and the retail concept store of a historical pastry brand. In allusion to their baking-industry uses, the brick buildings were t

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   The transformation of a residential tower into a hotel has been completed with a metal skin wrapping the structure of exposed concrete, thus adding a new layer to the building’s history. While the entrance tries not to stand out amid alleys, the vert

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   In a resort located on the shore of the Yellow Sea, a modest venue for exhibitions is designed to become a place where residents can socialize and interact with one another. With its solid envelope composed of faceted modules of concrete, interrupted

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   In what is an emerging industrial area, a top manufacturer of elevators has provided itself with a headquarters of formidable dimensions, yet is able to integrate the human scale. In what is a campus of workshops, showrooms, and storage interspersed

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   Amid the tourist boom that the region is undergoing, a young art center has endeavored to relieve its tight installations with an urban landmark that will give it more visibility.

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   Singapore   As Bachelard said, the dreams that transport us back to childhood sometimes gravitate around the house in which we felt protected, the ‘topography of our intimate being.’ So it is that the special affection three siblings feel for the home they grew

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   A leading producer of spirits has opened its first distillery on Chinese soil, set in a beautiful landscape with views of Mount Emei, one of the four sacred spots of Buddhism.

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   Inspired by the Jinshan Temple nearby, this teahouse harbors within it the structure of a high-ranking Qing dynasty official’s residence, relocated from Anhui to its new home in Fuzhou with its ornamental carvings and intricate joinery intact. The Re

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   The Shanghai firm headed by Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu were tasked to renovate an old brick building containing two levels of offices, to combine this use with a cultural center including a library, an exhibition hall, and a multipurpose space for 10

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   This twenty-room hotel rises in an environment dotted with small lakes and a handful of preexisting structures that have been transformed to adapt to new uses...

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   South Korea   A light and seemingly infinite brass structure that defragments vertically colonizes the whole building. The project references the lantern concept and its symbolism – light in the dark showing the way – to connect with Asian traditions...

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   Located by Cool Docks, a new development on the South Bund District of Shanghai, the Waterhouse is a four-story, 19-room boutique hotel built into an existing Japanese Army building from the 1930s. The concept behind the renovation rests on a clear c

The dystopias that J.G. Ballard imagined could well have been set in the Shanghai where he was born. With its babelic chaos, vertiginous pace, and constant mutation, the economic capital of the Asian giant is one of the world’s new frontiers, a metro

Shanghai paradigm. With its babelic chaos and constant mutation, Shanghai is one of the world’s new frontiers, a reality which Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu learn from to produce rigorous works that pursue order without ignoring their urban and cultural

The partial liberalization of the market for architectural projects in China has in past years led to a hatching of young practices bent on exploring paths other than those of official corporativism or the ‘weird architecture’ of international stardo

China has the geographic entity of a continent, the economic potential of a small planet, and the complexity of a macrocosmos with room aplenty for different geographies, tongues, and idiosyncracies. China is the politically unanimous country organiz