Wutopia Lab   China   Transforming the urban landscape of the city of Zhongshan, China, the showroom known as Hovering Kan-Too – built for the residential real estate developer Vanke – is a translucent white volume crowned with orange aluminum crests. The shapes and color

Wutopia Lab   China   The Shanghai firm Wutopia Lab, headed by Yu Ting, recently completed a work of fluid forms in Beidaihe District, in the city of Qinhuangdao. The spaces of this 1,300-square-meter cultural center are organized in a sequence of independent elements con

Wutopia Lab   China   Any self-respecting young person of the 18th century – and who had the means to – returned from his Grand Tour loaded with objects to display at home as mementos of his travels, a rite of passage so vital to his education and aesthetic sensibility. S

Wutopia Lab   China   Compared with the gray stain that China’s megalopoli have become, dehumanized and tediously uniform, the new entrance to a sales center in Huzhou is a garden of radical imagination, and thus a veritable manifesto against the generic city. A forest of

Wutopia Lab   China   To build a church within a church: this was the intention of Wutopia Lab for one of Shanghai’s most emblematic bookstores. The first church addressed by the project is an Orthodox temple raised in 1932, the walls of which have been kept intact and th