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New Design Trends | Kong Xiangwei presents a new work for the Flying Bird Art Museum; SoBA transforms architecture into “GIFs”; Di Dong redevelops an industrial site into an urban cultural and recreational green space.

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2025-11-28

New Design Trends | Kong Xiangwei presents a new work for the Flying Bird Art Museum; SoBA transforms architecture into “GIFs”; Di Dong repurposes an industrial site into an urban cultural and recreational green space.

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· Dali Wuliangshan Flying Birds Art Museum by Kong Xiangwei Studio

·The Bloom Box by SoBA

·The Chapel by Vinklu

·Jining Zoucheng Ferroalloy 1971 Industrial Heritage Park (Phase I) by Di Dong Planning & Design (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

·Changsha ZhiGu·Digital Space Station by Local Studio + Hunan University Design Research Institute Co., Ltd.

Guided by the concept of “light intervention,” we’re creating a functional cultural landmark.

Dali Wuliangshan Flying Birds Art Museum by Kong Xiangwei Studio

Phoenix Mountain in Nanjian County, Dali, Yunnan Province, is located at the northern foot of the Wuliangshan National Nature Reserve. It stretches across the junction of the Hengduan Mountains and the Ailao Mountain Range. Situated at an altitude of 2,300 meters, Phoenix Mountain—along with its canyon terrain and warm air currents—forms a “corridor of life.” Every autumn, large numbers of migratory birds travel along this ancient thousand-year-old trail, and the Flying Birds Art Museum has become a spiritual hub within the cultural and tourism complex.

Guided by the concept of “light intervention,” the design team added a lightweight steel structure atop the existing building to expand the second-floor space. Overall, a steel-structure aerial walkway combined with an open, pointed roof—resembling the outstretched wings of migratory birds—has become an artistic installation nestled in the valley. It primarily showcases photographic works depicting the migratory birds of the Wuliang Mountains. Both a functional cultural building and a small landmark in the valley. 。

Bring the space to life: Transform the building into an openable and closable box.

The Bloom Box by SoBA

Before renovation © SoBA

After renovation © Wen Studio

The project is located on a lakeside platform in the Central Park of Huaqiao, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. The original site was an old pergola-style sunshade pavilion. The design team hopes that through a lightweight and flexible design intervention, this space will truly come alive and become a place where people will want to stop and linger.

The design aims to enable the building to respond proactively based on time, weather, and usage needs, thus creating a... The openable and closable box-shaped building: During business hours, its walls can slide, flip, and rise, fully opening up the interior space to draw people in and encourage them to linger. When the store is closed or not in use, however, the structure can be neatly retracted into a quiet, compact form.

The gray spaces—characterized by folding door panels, sliding facades, and translucent materials—blur the boundaries between indoor and outdoor areas. These elements not only provide shade and protection from rain but also allow breezes to pass through and light to filter in, transforming what was once a closed volume into an open, interactive space that greatly enriches the possibilities for people’s use of the area—from waiting for coffee and enjoying scenic views to serving as a temporary marketplace or event space. Architecture is no longer merely a “thing”; rather, it has become an “interface” where life unfolds.

Animation demonstration © SoBA

A super-narrow 2-meter-wide café pays tribute to shrines nestled in the urban crevices.

The Chapel by Vinklu

This pocket-sized café, designed by the Romanian architectural firm Vinklu, With its simple, pointed-roof design paying homage to the miniature shrines found along rural roads in Japan, the structure is cleverly nestled between two residential buildings in Bucharest.

The café, named The Chapel (Little Church), was commissioned by the local chain Boiler Coffee. It’s located on a long-neglected vacant lot along Bazilescu Street in the First District of Romania’s capital city. Outdoor seating is arranged along the street, seamlessly integrating with the surrounding urban landscape.

Vinklu views the café as a “sanctuary for connection and contemplation,” drawing design inspiration from the small shrines and tea houses commonly found along rural roads in Japan. The building’s compact, steeply pitched form is entirely clad in glass; when lit up at night, it resembles a lantern.

Multi-disciplinary collaboration preserves and restores industrial heritage sites, providing high-quality urban ecological green spaces and leisure and recreational areas.

Jining Zoucheng Ferroalloy 1971 Industrial Heritage Park (Phase I) by Di Dong Planning & Design (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

Before renovation © Di Dong Planning & Design (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

After renovation © Chill Shine Qiu Wensan Ying

The Iron Alloy 1971 Industrial Heritage Park is located on the former site of the Lunan Iron Alloy Plant in Zoucheng, Shandong Province. The project not only allows local residents and tourists to once again stand at the foot of the iron alloy plant’s iconic industrial ruins, but also provides local residents with high-quality urban ecological green spaces and recreational areas. The project respects the site’s history and integrity, infusing the millennium-old cultural town of Zoucheng with cultural elements from the industrial era. It enhances and enriches Zoucheng’s overall quality and cultural value, making a remarkable contribution to fostering coordinated development in the surrounding areas and achieving regional revitalization.

The design excavates culture by repurposing and reinterpreting the site’s existing industrial relics, continuously exploring strategies for integrating industrial heritage into urban public spaces. Deeply explore the intrinsic connections among the historical significance of ferroalloys, the industrial symbolic memories embedded within the site, and the spatial system that fosters urban vitality; and create multi-dimensional natural art and humanistic aesthetic environments.

The industrial heritage section, centered on the production process, preserves typical production equipment—such as blast furnaces for ironmaking, hot-air stoves, baghouse dust collectors, and material bins—that are essential to the entire production workflow, serving as the core exhibition elements of this industrial heritage site. The design leverages the core industrial heritage sites as the overarching spatial focal point of the park, serving as the starting point for shaping the site’s spirit and defining the park’s overall skyline silhouette, which echoes harmoniously with the surrounding urban skyline.

The design adheres to “ Principle of Minimal Intervention Enter the core area of the industrial heritage site. The rugged industrial aesthetic directly clashes with the delicate and gentle hues of natural greenery, creating an irreplaceable and unique landscape in the park’s post-industrial remnants. The design imbues the core area with the absolute value of industry and nature, enabling users to experience, in the most direct way, the technological, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of the industrial era and to gain a rich and immersive experience.

Using “pumice stone” as a metaphor, we’ve created a public “urban living room” through a cantilevered structure, fostering an atmosphere of shared experience.

Changsha Zhigu – Digital Space Station by Local Studio + Hunan University Design Research Institute Co., Ltd.

The project is located within the World Computing·Changsha Smart Valley Industrial Park. Its design reimagines the technological architecture through an organic integration of bold structural innovation and cultural resonance. Centered on the metaphor of “floating stone,” it challenges the typology of industrial architecture by creating public spaces through cantilevers, symbolizing the digital age’s independence from physical constraints. A hybrid structure—consisting of a concrete core tube and steel trusses—liberates the ground floor plan, creating a... The immersive "third space" Here, light, water, and human activities interact spontaneously.

Inside, The folded geometric forms and exposed structural materials juxtapose the raw material (concrete) with fleeting reflections (tensile grid panels), striking a balance between the technical materiality and poetic abstraction. This project goes beyond functional determinism, viewing space as a dynamic stage for social interaction and integrating industrial assets (such as factories and logistics hubs) with everyday life.