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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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JURY VOTES
Restaurant
6.97
6.78
7.03
5.50
6.57
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann Director of Interior Architecture at Snøhetta
7.5
7.25
7.5
6.5
7.19
Dennis Vlietinck
Dennis Vlietinck Head of Design at Wink
7.5
7.5
8
6.5
7.38
Giovanni Zaccariello
Giovanni Zaccariello SVP Global Visual Experience  at Coach
7
7
7
6
6.75
Gilbert Khalil
Gilbert Khalil Director of Design and Technical Services at Sunset Hospitality Group
8
7
7
5
6.75
Nicolas Delefosse
Nicolas Delefosse Founder and Creative Director at NDDO
6.5
6
7
5
6.13
Farid Ziani
Farid Ziani Partner Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB
7
7.5
7
5
6.63
Sontaya Bluangtook
Sontaya Bluangtook Associate Design Director at UNStudio
7
7
7.5
6
6.88
Asif Din
Asif Din Sustainability Director at Perkins&Will
7
7
7
4
6.25
Jocelyne Sacre
Jocelyne Sacre Design Strategist at Consultant
6.5
7
7
5
6.38
Deepak Jawahar
Deepak Jawahar Cofounder at The Architecture Story
8
7.5
7.5
6
7.25
Cathy Figueiredo
Cathy Figueiredo Cofounder at Wanna
6
7
6
5
6
Lisa Adams
Lisa Adams Director of CitizenHKS & Sustainable Design Leader at HKS
8
6
8
5
6.75
Klein Dai
Klein Dai CEO at Algebraist Brand Management
7
7
7
6
6.75
Baoyu Tian
Baoyu Tian General Manager at Foshan Shengtianjia Lighting Equipment
7
6.5
7
5.5
6.5
Liqun Lin
Liqun Lin Executive Director at Xiamen Wenqu Decoration Design
8
8
8
8
8
Bangsheng Yang
Bangsheng Yang Founder at Yang & Associates Group
6.5
6
7
5
6.13
Dirk Osinga
Dirk Osinga Founder at STUDIOSINGA
4
4
4
4
4
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.