Neri and Hu renovated and reskinned a five-story office building on a tree-lined street in the French Concession of Shanghai to create a new headquarters for their architecture firm and their retail furnishings company, Design Republic. They clad the ground floor with wood and inset large windows and glass doors to provide access to a new Design Republic gallery and store. (The original store was on the Bund, but recently closed.) “We approached the store as an extension of the street” to engage pedestrians as they walk by, states Lyndon Neri, who founded the firm with his wife Rossana Hu in 2004 after they had worked for Michael Graves and other architects in both China and the United States.
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