Posted on 1/22/2018
Office PROJECT's chief designers, Chang Ke and LiWenhan, were charged by their client, artist and "literati," Doctor Xu Hongquan, with creating a studio for him in Beijing, China's, Huairou District that was a play on juxtapositions.
It had to be both a private space for him to live in, as well as a public space for displaying his art; and it had to encompass both traditional, Eastern elements, as well as contemporary, Western sensibilities. The result: The client's expectations have been clearly met, evident the moment one enters through the heavy, wood front door and walks into the brisk, white int...