This inspiring restaurant located in Shanghai, China, was designed in 2018 by Coordination Asia.

Description by Coordination Asia
Coordination Asia is delighted to share its most recent collaboration with Gaga restaurants and cafés, housed inside a historic villa in the heart of Shanghai. For the team, the project presented a particular set of challenges: how to connect the property?s past and present in a way that matches its current function, reflects the Gaga brand, and ensures commercial success"
Gaga?s venue, a former Christian girls? school, is illustrative of a phenomenon that although not unique to Shanghai, distinguishes the metropolis from others in China. That is, the ongoing dialogue between the cutting edge contemporary, and a richly storied past. This past century has witnessed an architectural narrative that has diverged from colonial grandeur, to the skyscrapers, shopping malls and lifestyle hubs of now. Increasingly, Shanghai?s monuments of bygone eras are being reclaimed and reappropriated for the aspirations of today. Beautifully illustrating precisely this exchange is Changning Villa: built in the late 19th century, it was once part of St. Mary?s Hall, a school established by the Episcopal Church of the United States. Now dwarfed by neighbouring Raffles City shopping mall, its elegance doesn?t just endure, it perfectly complements its contemporary surroundings.
In designing Gaga Changning Villa, Coordination Asia drew on the...