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CLOU architects have released a series of photographs from the site of Chang’an Paradise Walk documenting progress of the commercial project. Our Office was commissioned in 2017 to design the interiors for the 54,000 sqm, six storey shopping mall. Construction is now nearly finished and Chang’an Paradise Walk is set to open in December 2019….

Located in the heart of Beijing’s Daxing district, Shoukai Vanke operates as a key piece in over 154,000 sqm of new urban development. With Beijing’s Daxing International Airport opening nearby later this year, the area has be envisioned as a new gateway to the city with impressive investment into parks and circulation routes. The mixed…

The Project will be included in this year’s A+Architecture, an annual compendium of the world’s most inspiring architecture, published in partnership with Phaidon. Congratulations from CLOU to all other winners of the 2019 Architizer A+Awards! In newly-built vertical communities such as southwest Shenyang, where adequate facilities and public spaces are often lacking, neighbourhood malls have become…

You like our ‘Play Stack’ project? Help us become a ‘Popular Choice Winner’ in the ‘Shopping Center’ category! Popular Choice Award voting ends July 5, 2019. Vote here: Architizer Awards

Volume 6 of FRAME’s recent release reflects on the importance of creating tangible touchpoints between the brand and the consumer in order to realize relevant retail experiences. Two of CLOU’s retail interior design projects have been selected by editor Ana Martins for Power Shop 6, a compendium described as ‘Retail Design Now’. CLOU’s Jiuxi Wedding…

The office lobby, essentially a site of transition, is conceived as a ‘neutral space’ overlaid with a diagrid of light suspended from a pleated ceiling. Drawing the attention to the ceiling is a proclamation of the vertical journey towards the floors above. Photographer Shuhe has captured the lighting system prior to the opening of the…

‘The resort blends into the landscape of Chinese mountains offering its guests staying in one of the villas a sense of being alone in nature,’ says Jan F. Clostermann, Director of CLOU.

Held on October 25 at the German Film Museum in Frankfurt the conference serves as a platform for professionals to present their ground-breaking projects in the field of Retail and Exhibition Design, to discuss future trends and to exchange ideas about the successful implementation of three-dimensional brand environments. Photo credit for images above: Christof Jakob

Photographer Shuhe has captured a set of under construction images of CLOU’s Shenyang Play Stack scheduled to open at the end of September 2018. Play Stack is a kid’s themed mall thought of as piled up boxes containing playful elements. Terraced volumes, connecting staircases and a large roof deck are threaded into a continuous exterior…