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The suspended battleship

CompanyShanghai Duts Architecture & Design Co.,ltd
Lead DesignersLing Zhong
ClientYicheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd., Shanghai
Prize(s)Bronze in Architecture Categories / Renovation
Entry Description

DUTSdesign completed a renovation project that was founded in 1969 and formerly known as the school bus workshop of Shanghai Happy Motorcycle. The precise design of this two-story space ensured the permeability and flexibility of underlying office space. For the best visual effect, the entire second-floor is against the main entrance as a suspended battleship with ascending steel structure stairs complementing the black perforated steel grating with burgundy steel beams and roof plank. It is highlighting the grim temperament of modern industrial style.

Bio

Founded in Paris in 1985, DUTSdesign is a design company with French academic background and settled in Shanghai in 2009. Now the studio is developing horizontally into an integrated design firm that can provide international architectural and space design, overall planning to branding design. DUTSdesign is committed to the new design direction of "urban renewal" in 2018 based on maintaining the original design expertise and resource advantages in modern urban development. DUTSdesign is not a traditional agency anymore. The new integrated strategy has brought the company to the next chapter.

Awards and Prize

Founded in Paris in 1985, DUTSdesign (formerly known as French Atelier Dubosc & Associes) is a design company with French academic background. It has been in the leading position in French and even European steel structure buildings and green ecology energy-saving buildings and obtained numerous international awards. French Atelier Dubosc & Associes is a company that has completed many architectural designs and urban planning projects throughout Europe and Asia. It also established branches or representative offices in Hanoi of Vietnam, Doha of Qatar to engage in a worldwide range of design services.
DUTSdesign was settled in Shanghai, China in 2009. At that moment, Mr. Zhong Ling, the founder, brought the rigorous and exquisite academic style of French Atelier Dubosc & Associes to China. From the professional experiences he had, Mr. Zhong Ling is able to combine the mature European design ideas and advanced technical model with the concrete situation and applied it skillfully and rationally to the actual projects in China. Now the studio is developing horizontally into an integrated design firm that can provide international architectural and space design, overall planning to branding design. Among them, architectural design is the primary service of the company, including urban complexes, high-end commercial centers, corporate headquarters, logistics centers, stadiums, public cultural buildings, star-rated hotels, high-end office buildings, vacation centers, high-end residential, urban planning and renovation.
In terms of the tendency of China's economic development, the new stage of China's urban development and the needs of China's commercial sector, DUTSdesign is committed to the new design direction of "urban renewal" in 2018 based on maintaining the original design expertise and resource advantages in modern urban development. In order to better implement this new design direction, DUTSdesign innovatively integrates outstanding partners from different fields