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Bold spatial solutions transform this abandoned sewer into FRAME’s bar of the year

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From former sewage disposal facility to bar: that’s the transformation that earned Republican Metropolis Architecture the Bar of the Year award for its Rust Jazz Club on the Liuyang River in Changsha, China. - Kaijian Lee & K&J VISION
Retaining traces of the past was an important part of the brief from the client. - Kaijian Lee & K&J VISION
The client took on the building after it had sat abandoned for 20 years, becoming what the designers referred to as ‘useless and unsightly ruins, forgotten by the world’. - Kaijian Lee & K&J VISION

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Design
Republican Metropolis Architecture
Floor Area
1,280 sq-m

From former sewage disposal facility to bar: that’s the transformation that earned Republican Metropolis Architecture the Bar of the Year award for its

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