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Shanghai-based practice dongqi Design shapes cafes, exhibition corridors, and cultural spaces through precise mechanical joinery, exposed structural hardware, and layered material transparency. The portfolio serves as a strong reference when detailing custom structural assemblies, integrating light armatures into vertical supports, or calibrating optical depth across compact commercial interiors.

Street facade of a brick office building framed by large plane trees, designed by dongqi Design.

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上海

An exterior street-front precedent for integrating a historic brick office facade with mature urban landscaping and warm interior lighting.

What we like about this project
Delicate pointed arch detailing integrated seamlessly above standard rectangular window openings.

Materials

  • brick
  • stucco
  • glass
  • metal
  • concrete

Visual identifiers

  • brick-facade
  • mature-plane-trees
  • pointed-arch-details
  • roof-terrace
  • white-pilasters

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • historicist
  • urban

Visual tags

  • adaptive-reuse
  • urban-infill
  • historic-facade
  • street-edge
  • office
Geometry
Symmetrical two-story brick volume with a recessed third-floor roof terrace, framed by vertical white pilasters and pointed arched header details.
Facade system
Load-bearing brick masonry with stucco pilasters and punched rectangular windows under pointed arch reveals.
Structural guess
Load-bearing masonry walls with timber or steel floor joists.
Spatial scale
Two-story building fronting a standard urban sidewalk and multi-lane avenue, scaled for pedestrian-street interaction.
Lighting
Soft overcast daylight combined with warm interior illumination glowing through ground and first-floor windows.
Atmosphere
Lush, sheltered, and warmly lit against a dense, bustling city street.
Environmental context
Urban street edge with dense overhead tree canopy and motion-blurred traffic streaking along the foreground.
Spatial experience
Viewed across a busy multi-lane street, the mature trees and planted forecourt soften the urban edge, revealing warm lit interiors through large windows.
Composition rhythm
Vertical window bays separated by white pilasters creating a steady tripartite rhythm across the facade.
Style reading
Contemporary renovation of a historic urban structure
Program
Design studio office
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
brick, stucco, glass, metal, concrete
Visual identifiers
brick-facade, mature-plane-trees, pointed-arch-details, roof-terrace, white-pilasters
Style tags
contemporary, historicist, urban
Visual tags
adaptive-reuse, urban-infill, historic-facade, street-edge, office
Geometry
Symmetrical two-story brick volume with a recessed third-floor roof terrace, framed by vertical white pilasters and pointed arched header details.
Facade system
Load-bearing brick masonry with stucco pilasters and punched rectangular windows under pointed arch reveals.
Structural guess
Load-bearing masonry walls with timber or steel floor joists.
Spatial scale
Two-story building fronting a standard urban sidewalk and multi-lane avenue, scaled for pedestrian-street interaction.
Lighting
Soft overcast daylight combined with warm interior illumination glowing through ground and first-floor windows.
Atmosphere
Lush, sheltered, and warmly lit against a dense, bustling city street.
Environmental context
Urban street edge with dense overhead tree canopy and motion-blurred traffic streaking along the foreground.
Spatial experience
Viewed across a busy multi-lane street, the mature trees and planted forecourt soften the urban edge, revealing warm lit interiors through large windows.
Composition rhythm
Vertical window bays separated by white pilasters creating a steady tripartite rhythm across the facade.
Style reading
Contemporary renovation of a historic urban structure
Program
Design studio office
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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Street facade of a brick office building framed by large plane trees, designed by dongqi Design.

0_dongqi-办公室

上海

An exterior street-front precedent for integrating a historic brick office facade with mature urban landscaping and warm interior lighting.

What we like about this project
Delicate pointed arch detailing integrated seamlessly above standard rectangular window openings.

Materials

  • brick
  • stucco
  • glass
  • metal
  • concrete

Visual identifiers

  • brick-facade
  • mature-plane-trees
  • pointed-arch-details
  • roof-terrace
  • white-pilasters

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • historicist
  • urban

Visual tags

  • adaptive-reuse
  • urban-infill
  • historic-facade
  • street-edge
  • office
Geometry
Symmetrical two-story brick volume with a recessed third-floor roof terrace, framed by vertical white pilasters and pointed arched header details.
Facade system
Load-bearing brick masonry with stucco pilasters and punched rectangular windows under pointed arch reveals.
Structural guess
Load-bearing masonry walls with timber or steel floor joists.
Spatial scale
Two-story building fronting a standard urban sidewalk and multi-lane avenue, scaled for pedestrian-street interaction.
Lighting
Soft overcast daylight combined with warm interior illumination glowing through ground and first-floor windows.
Atmosphere
Lush, sheltered, and warmly lit against a dense, bustling city street.
Environmental context
Urban street edge with dense overhead tree canopy and motion-blurred traffic streaking along the foreground.
Spatial experience
Viewed across a busy multi-lane street, the mature trees and planted forecourt soften the urban edge, revealing warm lit interiors through large windows.
Composition rhythm
Vertical window bays separated by white pilasters creating a steady tripartite rhythm across the facade.
Style reading
Contemporary renovation of a historic urban structure
Program
Design studio office
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
brick, stucco, glass, metal, concrete
Visual identifiers
brick-facade, mature-plane-trees, pointed-arch-details, roof-terrace, white-pilasters
Style tags
contemporary, historicist, urban
Visual tags
adaptive-reuse, urban-infill, historic-facade, street-edge, office
Geometry
Symmetrical two-story brick volume with a recessed third-floor roof terrace, framed by vertical white pilasters and pointed arched header details.
Facade system
Load-bearing brick masonry with stucco pilasters and punched rectangular windows under pointed arch reveals.
Structural guess
Load-bearing masonry walls with timber or steel floor joists.
Spatial scale
Two-story building fronting a standard urban sidewalk and multi-lane avenue, scaled for pedestrian-street interaction.
Lighting
Soft overcast daylight combined with warm interior illumination glowing through ground and first-floor windows.
Atmosphere
Lush, sheltered, and warmly lit against a dense, bustling city street.
Environmental context
Urban street edge with dense overhead tree canopy and motion-blurred traffic streaking along the foreground.
Spatial experience
Viewed across a busy multi-lane street, the mature trees and planted forecourt soften the urban edge, revealing warm lit interiors through large windows.
Composition rhythm
Vertical window bays separated by white pilasters creating a steady tripartite rhythm across the facade.
Style reading
Contemporary renovation of a historic urban structure
Program
Design studio office
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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