Layering new surfaces over old makes a heritage house emphatically modern
While renovating this 543-sq-m historical house in central Shanghai, local studio Wutopia Lab was not allowed to alter building code-protected elements. Originally, the house sheltered six families in a labyrinthine layout, but the architects coul
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