Shanghai-based inside designer Alex Mok has joined Dezeen Awards China 2023 as a choose. Right here she selects 5 tasks that greatest replicate her work.
Mok and Briar Hickling are the co-founders of structure and inside design follow Linehouse. The feminine duo’s work has been recognised internationally and gained quite a lot of worldwide design awards, together with Rising inside designers of the tear at Dezeen Awards 2019.
“Linehouse’s method is purposeful, creating poetic ideas by analysis of cultural, city and historic contexts that reply to this system, website and performance,” Mok informed Dezeen.
“Every mission has a robust narrative, a concentrate on craft and distinctive spatial expertise with a dynamic intersection between disciplines,” she continued.
At the moment, Mok is engaged on lodge tasks in Hangzhou and Hong Kong, a meals market in Shanghai, and a collection of retail tasks in Bangkok.
Alex Mok amongst Dezeen Awards China 2023 judges
Dezeen Awards China 2023 launched in June in partnership with Bentley Motors. It’s the first regional version of Dezeen Awards, celebrating one of the best structure, interiors and design in China.
We now have introduced 10 out of the 15 Dezeen Awards China judges, together with architects Ma Yansong and Rossana Hu, furnishings designer Frank Chou and inside designer Andre Fu, who will probably be becoming a member of Mok on the inside design judging panel.
Entries shut on Thursday 24 August. Submit your entry earlier than midnight Beijing time on 24 August to keep away from late entry charges.
Learn on to search out Mok’s views on the 5 tasks that greatest characterize her work.
Wework Weihai Street, Shanghai, 2016
“Linehouse labored with Wework in 2016 to create their headquarters in a spectacular flip of the century brick constructing in Shanghai. Linehouse celebrated the grandeur of the previous opium manufacturing unit and artist residence, encapsulating the sensation of a grand lodge, transporting friends and members on an surprising journey of caprice, voyeurism and festivity.
“The heritage facade surrounds the central atrium. A curved terrazzo tray was inserted to outline the house, and pastel diagonal strips in blue, inexperienced, pink and gray wrap the ground and wall, making a hardscape carpet.
“A bespoke lighting set up is suspended within the triple-height house. A brand new sculptural staircase was inserted to attach all three ranges of the primary public areas.”
Tingtai Teahouse, Shanghai, 2018
“Tingtai Teahouse was accomplished in 2018 in a former manufacturing unit house and artwork gallery in Shanghai’s Moganshan Street artwork district. We stripped the house fully to disclose the attractive patina of the unique manufacturing unit with concrete beams and columns in addition to the brick partitions.
“The teahouses are fashionable architectural responses to the uncooked manufacturing unit inside. They learn as singular insertions that distinction with the tough brick and concrete inside and replicate the environment. The higher rooms specifically have robust relationships with the present constructing in the best way they connect with the unique clerestory home windows.
“With every of those rooms bookended with full-height glazing, friends develop into spectators to the actions under. Every room has a special roofline, which varieties fashionable architectural puzzle areas the place tea drinkers can get pleasure from this age outdated drink with a brand new perspective. “
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Coast, Shanghai, 2022
“The Coast restaurant in Shanghai remembers a deep reference to coastal components and Mediterranean soul. Linehouse reworked a three-storey constructing right into a vertical journey of refined rusticity.
“Colors and supplies throughout the three flooring change, telling completely different components of the story. Inexperienced earthy tones on the bottom ground hyperlink the backyard to the open cafe house, whereas the purple fireplace tones on the primary ground replicate the eating room centred on the parrilla grill. On the second ground black yakisugi wooden contrasts in opposition to the whitewashed flanked stone partitions and the present conventional timber trussed ceiling.”
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Central World, Bangkok, 2023
“Central World is our largest architectural mission up to now; a renovation mission of an present procuring centre referred to as Isetan in Bangkok. Linehouse was commissioned to design the outside facade and 7 flooring of retail house together with a meals court docket.
“The mission was situated in an space as soon as plentiful in lily pads. Linehouse examined the stemming, radiating and round profile of the lily pads, translating this right into a spatial narrative of the outside and inside situation.
“The outside is a double-layered, arched facade. The entrance layer was outlined by concrete kind and the again layer rendered in black. The arches stem in varied heights and widths shifting on the 2 planes, creating fascinating intersections which function as framed views by to the inside.
“Linehouse punctuated the arches to permit inexperienced terraces, offering a depth to an in any other case flat elevation, and blurring the exteriors and interiors.”
Ying’n Flo, Hong Kong, 2023
“Aiming to interrupt the standard lodge narrative of significant areas and strict boundaries, Ying’n Flo is a life-style guesthouse for modern-day travellers in Hong Kong.
“The areas had been designed to have a heat, welcoming and acquainted really feel, emphasising performance and high quality. Towards this backdrop of curated simplicity is an fringe of youthful perspective and native context, with vibrant components giving the lodge its personal distinctive flavour.”
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Dezeen Awards China 2023
Dezeen Awards China is the primary regional version of Dezeen Awards, to rejoice one of the best structure, interiors and design in China. The annual awards are in partnership with Bentley Motors, as a part of a wider collaboration that can see the model work with Dezeen to assist and encourage the following technology of design expertise in China.
