TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   In 2021, the company Librairie Avant-Garde commissioned the Beijing-based firm TAO | Trace Architecture Office to build a series of bookstores, including that of the Academia Chongzheng in Weishan and the recently completed one in Yangpo. Atop the Ga

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   The Beijing firm TAO | Trace Architecture Office has renovated the historic Weishan Chongzheng Academy, founded over 500 years ago, transforming the building into a bookstore for Librairie Avant-Garde, with reading rooms, a small theater, exhibition

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   The intersection of curves and straight lines in the brightly colored volumes creates a playful atmosphere at this school in the city of Haikou, located north of Hainan Island. Situate on a sloping site, the new construction seeks, through its forms,

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   At 15.6 meters in height, the tower offers visitors spectacular views of the wetlands and the mountains. The tower is built and wrapped with wood, with a shingle facade of Douglas fir, and a roof skylight that lets light reach the interior spaces...

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   Headed by Hua Li, the Beijing firm Trace Architecture Office (TAO) has transformed, renovated, and enlarged a complex of buildings that house a coffee processing plant and a hotel in China’s Yunnan Province, known for its coffee trees. The brick cons

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   Kept open on its longer sides in order to maximize ventilation, the factory is built with cheap and locally available materials, such as bamboo stalks and concrete blocks and tiles. 

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   Raised on a concrete platform that protects it, the building strives to adapt to its context and preserves the existing trees through the repetition of a basic unit: a pillar from which four cantilevered beams jut out at different heights... [+]

Li Hua TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   The Museum is located in a beautiful landscape next to Xinzhuang Village and under Gaoligong mountain, an important world ecological preserve. The village has a long tradition of handcraft paper making, and the museum’s program is to show how the cul