Archidust Journal

It suggests an extensive and exhaustive collection of the best architecture firms across china. The sounds pretty important doesn’t it? Compiling a list of the top architecture firms is far more difficult than it sounds. We have come across a series of smaller, lesser known, Bigger and younger practices that focuses more on Large, medium and small-scale experimental work. Here are our top favorites:

1. daipu architects :- Daipu Architects, founded in 2010 by Dai Pu, is an innovation-oriented architecture firm which seeks for the combination of time spirits and humanity traditions. The firm is based in Beijing and practices in a number of cities in China, ranging from North China (Beijing and Tianjin) to the south (Zhejiang, Anhui, Sichuan, Hubei, and Guizhou). In each project, the firm endeavors to review every assignment with unique perspective and angel, and redefine the relationship between people, space, and nature.

2. Superimpose Architecture :- Superimpose is not only our studio name, it is also our design approach and thinking methodology. We design and develop the projects based on valid contextual elements and overlay them with architectural elements. Promoting and providing a holistic design approach in all stages is the key to our studio’s success.

3. HyperSity architects :- HyperSity studio by the Netherlands registered architect, the Central Academy of Fine Arts lecturer Shi Yang was established in 2013 in Beijing. She graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and later completed a post-master’s research work with Rehm Koolhaas at the Strelka School of Architectural Design and Media in Moscow before working for UNStudio and OMA Architects in the Netherlands.

4. WSP Architects :- WSP is an international innovation-oriented creative architectural design institute with Class A architectural design qualification. It is also one of top 10 international architectural design institutes in China and the first-class brand in the architectural design in China.

5. H&W Design Office :- H&W Design Office is founded by two female designers–Hu Ke and Wang Rui in Beijing in 2012. It devotes to design exclusive high-end residential space for elites in China. The two designers integrate fashion and creativity into the design from woman’s unique perspective to create interesting interior space.

6. Wutopia Lab :- Wutopia Lab is founded by the chief architect Yu Ting in Shanghai, which is an architecture company based on a new paradigm of complex system.Wutopia Lab regards Shanghai’s culture and life style as a starting point, using architecture as a tool to promote sociological progress within building practice.

7. Xiamen Fancy Design & Decoration Co., Ltd. :- A touching design starts from life and expresses with beauty. Design is not only the way of designing but also serving for people and life. We should feel and discover all kinds of beautiful things with our eyes and hearts, plant values to the space with modern aesthetics thinking and design language and create or recreate a beautiful experience above the base of simple life.

8. X+Living :- XL MUSE Architectural Design (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is an international, diversified, can provide customers with comprehensive design agency planning, architecture, interior, landscape, engineering and design consulting services. To “design to create value” as the core concept of the pursuit of design work from concept to final completion of the highest quality.

9. Dongguan Zheng Xiang Decoration Design Consulting Co. Ltd.  :- Adopting advanced concept of interior design of foreign architecture and combining Chinese design elements, Dongguan Zheng Xiang Decoration Design Consulting Co., Ltd. (Zheng Xiang Design) focuses on creating design projects that maximizes spaces and space value for clients. Zheng Xiang Design specializes in interior design, advocates diverse design aesthetics, and adheres to the spirit of innovation for many years, thus making itself pioneer in architectural interior design, art furnishings, and product design, etc.

10. CJ STUDIO – ShiChieh Lu :- Graduating from Architecture Department of Tung-Hai University and Architectural Association in London. Engaged in the research and development of architectural and interior design, furniture design as well as product design.

11. Yiduan Shanghai Interior Design :- “A flag of China’s Originalism Designer”, “Council Member of International Registered Artist and Designer Association”, contemporary space magician, crossover artistic design master, winner of Idea-Tops. Got involved in fields of architecture design, landscape design, interior design, graphic design and oil painting, sculpture, installation art etc. since early 1990s. Founder of Yiduan Shanghai Interior Design, Dean and Chief Executive Creative Director of Shanghai Xu Xujun Institute of Architects.

12. CUN Design :- CUN Design founded in 2010, which is a diversified and professional team made up by new power young designers.Our design works are from center meters to kilo meters, which cross from space, vision to the product. Advocate the integration of architecture and interior space design. There is no boundaries of the design, the world is also a multidimensional existence, design doesn’t just exist in categories. With the philosophy ‘Creation initiate with no boundaries, design crossover different industries’, logic technology expression and the emotion of beauty have been performed sufficiently.

13. RIGI Design :- RIGI Rui set design was founded in 2007 by Liu Kai. RIGI is one of the most creative design teams in China. It is a cutting-edge design team comprised of cross-disciplinary young designers. RIGI’s work ranges from millimeter to kilometers across brands, space, vision and products. As one of the most creative design teams in China, RIGI Has always maintained an independent design language and design concepts for social and professional customers with innovative integrated design solutions.

14. Lim + Lu :- Lim and Lu is a multi-disciplinary design practice based in New York City with an emphasis on innovative product and furniture designs. Both trained architects, the design duo Vincent Lim and Elaine Lu begin the design process with the user in mind, creating pieces that fit effortlessly into the user’s life by offering the freedom to compose. Lim and Lu’s designs, inspired by familiar images from everyday life, push the trend of individualization by presenting flexibility, practicality, and a breath of fresh air in every piece.

15. SODA architects :- SODA Architects was founded by Mr. Yuan Jiang and Mr. Chen Song in 2015, in Paris and Beijing simultaneously, using their comprehensive background in local and international forms of architecture and art.