GUD Restaurant and Cocktail Bar, Hangzhou Commercial Interior Design, Chinese Modern Architecture, Images
GUD Restaurant & Cocktail Bar in Hangzhou
24 May 2022
Interior Designers: STUDIO8
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, East China

Photos by Sven Zhang
GUD Restaurant and Cocktail Bar, China
Located in a heritage building from the 1930s in the central area of Hangzhou, GUD is a restaurant and cocktail bar specializing in hotpot cuisine and craft cocktails. STUDIO8 was commissioned to design the architecture re-use, interior and visual identity for the project.

Unfortunately, as happens with many buildings in China throughout modern history, the villa was almost ?eaten up? by the city from 1939 to 2020, with only one complete façade left facing the street. The interior was also renovated, extended and changed several times, from residential to multiple commercial uses.
The site includes the villa originally built in 1939, its extension in the north and the ground floor space from the building next door to the west. The architects were given the site to turn into a hotpot restaurant. STUDIO8 believes the best way to preserve a historic building is to make it functional to meet today?s needs, giving a new life to it. The three-story villa was a residential building without any restroom or large kitchen. The re-use of it demanded a delicate and respectful renovation. Therefore, service and utility spaces such as kitchen, restroom and a vertical connection for p...