SOHO China, a leading prime real estate developer in China, has recently set up shop on the Bund. Widely acclaimed for both a visionary business model and several landmark buildings, it?s an exciting time for SOHO China ? expressed through design, the future is bold and bright.

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Architects: AIM Architecture

Location: Shanghai, China

Design Team: Wendy Saunders, Vincent de Graaf, German Roig & Zhikun Zhang, Ivan Yu, Liat Goldman

Client: SOHO China

Area: 9400.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Dirk Weilblen

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From the architect. SOHO China, a leading prime real estate developer in China, has recently set up shop on the Bund. Widely acclaimed for both a visionary business model and several landmark buildings, it?s an exciting time for SOHO China ? expressed through design, the future is bold and bright.
© Dirk Weilblen

AIM was chosen to design four spaces within the interior of SOHO Bund: the public spaces, basement, show office, and club. This project was a balance between past and future ? the government of Shanghai is concerned with the Bund?s facade, and rightly so ? we all love the 1930?s style buildings that look out onto the glitzy, modern towers of Pudong. 

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The idea was to simultaneously challenge...