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Cicada Song Xiang Cuisine

Republican Metropolis Architecture

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Front Room - Kaijian Lee\Jack Qin
Dining area details - Kaijian Lee\Jack Qin
Front Room - Kaijian Lee\Jack Qin
Front Room - Kaijian Lee\Jack Qin

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Restaurant
6.97
6.78
7.03
5.50
6.57
Luca Macri
Luca Macri Partner at Lamatilde
4
7.5
6
6
5.88
Ludmila Machado
Ludmila Machado Founder at Aurora Design
5
7
5.4
5
5.6
Weiping Lin
Weiping Lin Founder and Design Director at Lin Wei Ping Design Consulting
5
7
5
5
5.5
Drew Gilbert
Drew Gilbert Design Manager at OBMI
5
6.5
6.1
5.62
5.81
Apoorva Shroff
Apoorva Shroff Founder at lyth Design
6
6
6
6
6
Mark Timo
Mark Timo Founder at De Interieur Club
5
5
5
5
5
Marcel Häusler
Marcel Häusler Creative Director at Karl Anders
6
6
5
6
5.75
Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith Associate Designer at M Moser Associates
5
7
6
5
5.75
Alessandro Ranaldi
Alessandro Ranaldi Head of Workplace Consultancy at Foster and Partners
4.5
6.5
6
5.5
5.63
Jai Kumaran
Jai Kumaran Partner at West of West
5
6.5
6
6
5.88
Llisa Demetrios
Llisa Demetrios Chief Curator at The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity
5
6
5
6
5.5
Isabelle Kievenheim
Isabelle Kievenheim Head of Store Development at & Other Stories H&M Group
7
8
7
4
6.5
Terry Xu
Terry Xu Chief Designer at Masanori Design Studio
5
5
5
5
5
Yuan Jiang
Yuan Jiang Cofounder at Soda
5
5
6
5
5.25
Yuanman Huang
Yuanman Huang Cofounder and Creative Designer at GS Design
3.39
5
3.7
3.6
3.92
Client
Mr. SONG
Floor area
800 ㎡
Completion
2021

The cave and the terrace form two visual images, folded and flat, and act as two different functions and scales of space, and this project draws on these ends to create two spatial interfaces, the folded and the smooth. They each contain the function of a reception and the function of a lobby.

The exterior consists of a succession of overlapping spherical units, cut to create a coexistence of real and imaginary spaces, with a reflective stainless steel façade churning the outside world. The surface is distorted, deformed, absurd, destructive and ambitious, as the reflections muddy the surrounding landscape. The material also creates a temporality, the landscape is new every moment, a process of constant generation.

The interior is a quiet, unreal dreamscape: here the walls are straight, smooth and ambiguous, with illusory images on the walls blurring the borders and extending the space.

In the centre of the gallery is the wine room and two small private rooms, flanked by all the wines of the wine room. At either end of the corridor are two large and two small rooms, which serve as open dining areas and are made of metallic materials in vague and contrasting colours.