Linehouse Limited 聯圖建築設計

Bestseller Shanghai Office

Bestseller Shanghai Office
© Dirk Weiblen
Bestseller Shanghai Office
© Dirk Weiblen

BESTSELLER SHANGHAI OFFICE

Linehouse

ARCHITECTS
Linehouse

DESIGN TEAM
Inez Low, Edward Shi

THE CLIENT
Bestseller

MANUFACTURERS
Bentu, CUUNION, Mario Tsai, TARKETT Flooring Systems, ZaoZuo

DESIGN LEAD
Alex Mok, Briar Hickling

PHOTOGRAPHS
Dirk Weiblen

AREA
1361 m²

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Shanghai, China

CATEGORY
Office Buildings, Offices Interiors

Bestseller Shanghai Office
© Dirk Weiblen
Bestseller Shanghai Office
© Dirk Weiblen

Linehouse has designed the Shanghai office for fashion retailer Bestseller.

Bestseller Shanghai Office
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Bestseller Shanghai Office
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The office, developed together with Bestseller, is a futuristic fashion-forward expression of progressive and technologically driven ways of working.

The site is an elongated linear space enveloped by full-height glazing on three sides conceived as a sequence of dynamic and collaborative spaces.

The design seeks to balance industrial rigidness with subtlety and softness through a series of curved interventions.

Bestseller Shanghai Office
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Bestseller Shanghai Office
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Linehouse introduced a central vista that welcomes visitors and directs the view through the linear space.

The vista is framed by a luminous Barrisol stretch ceiling lined with a layer of glass fins.

Crimson vinyl flooring unfolds beneath the oblong lightbox. A collaborative working wall is wrapped in a layer of hairline stainless steel panels with sliding whiteboard panels and pinboards.

Bestseller Shanghai Office
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Bestseller Shanghai Office
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Bestseller Shanghai Office
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The entrance wall is a curved fluted glass insertion with a gradient layer of pink to clear that encloses three guest meeting rooms and the entrance doors.

The inside of the meetings rooms is painted a soft pink blush with inset asymmetric paneling and oval Barrisol lighting, contrasted with dark blue Tarkett flooring.

The teams within the office are divided by a perforated curved stainless steel screen and black framing. The perforated pattern gradients from small to large to provide privacy at the base and more openness at eye level. 

Bestseller Shanghai Office
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Bestseller Shanghai Office
© Dirk Weiblen

Around the central building core a series of meeting rooms, a photocopier room, quiet nooks, and a pantry are wrapped in a layer of coral coloured metal screening.

The vertical screening extends into the rooms and onto the ceilings, contrasting with the exposed concrete ceiling. Set within the pantry is an undulating feature island carved from grey Carrara marble.

Bestseller Shanghai Office
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Bestseller Shanghai Office
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Cork flooring extends into the lounge space that features a deeply veined customised marble collaboration table and lounge furniture from ZaoZuo.

The scheme contains a series of training rooms for all-day workshops with a capacity of 150 people, dedicated Livestream studios, and meeting rooms. Varied finishes including profiled timber strips and fluted fabric panels line the walls.

Bestseller Shanghai Office
© Dirk Weiblen


Bestseller Shanghai Office
19th Floor Plan
Bestseller Shanghai Office
7th Floor Plan

Linehouse Limited 聯圖建築設計
Linehouse Limited 聯圖建築設計
22A Gee Chang Hong Centre, 65 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong 香港黃竹坑道65號志昌行中心22A