98.6°F outdoor collection by Neri&Hu for De La Espada

Dezeen Showroom: Portuguese brand De La Espada has released a collection of outdoor furniture, 98.6°F, designed by Neri&Hu to be long-lasting and deceptively simple.

The all-wood 98.6°F collection is named after the "normal" human body temperature.

The collection features a dining table, dining chair, bench, lounge chair, coffee table and side table that De La Espada, which normally focuses on indoor furniture, describes as modest and versatile while also revealing "tectonic sophistication" up close.

The 98.6°F outdoor collection features wooden chairs and tables

All of the pieces are made from Croatian white oak, chosen because its high tannin content protects the wood from rot and allows it to have a longer life outdoors.

The furniture is finished with black oil, which darkens the grain and deepens the tone of the timber while making it water repellant.

The pieces are carefully engineered and made from high-quality Croatian white oak

Over time, the pieces in the 98.6°F collection will naturally age outdoors and take on a silver or dark grey patina.

Product: 98.6°F
Designer: Neri&Hu
Brand: De La Espada
Contact: sales@delaespada.com

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House of Remembrance by Neri&Hu is a courtyard house surrounded by gardens

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Neri&Hu arranges House of Remembrance around a central memorial garden

Neri&Hu has completed a house in Singapore featuring living spaces arranged around a central garden that recalls the arrangement of traditional Chinese siheyuan buildings.

Shanghai-based studio Neri&Hu designed the property for three siblings who as adults had outgrown their shared house and wanted a new, larger property that recalls the distinctive pitched-roof form of their childhood home.

House of Remembrance is a home in Singapore that was designed by Neri&Hu

Neri&Hu based the house's design on traditional siheyuan residences, which typically accommodate multi-generational families in buildings surrounding a central courtyard.

"To live under the same roof means to live together," said the studio, "and this metaphor is the nexus that ties the notion of community, especially in an intimate context, to the form crafted for this project."

The form of the home was informed by the structure it replaced

The building's shape references the previous house, which was built in the style of a British colonial bungalow and featured Victorian-style details combined with elements such as deep eaves borrowed from traditional Malay houses.

The prominent roof contains private areas including bedrooms on an additional upper floor, while from the outside the building retains the appearance of a single-storey hipped-roof bungalow.

Neri&Hu used concrete throughout the interior

"Understanding the functional importance of the roof and the client's emotional attachment to its form, we embraced the symbolic nature of the pitched roof and combined it with a reinterpretation of the courtyard house," the architects added.

Overhanging eaves extend beyond both the inner and outer facades, providing sheltered circulation spaces around the courtyard and the building's perimeter.

Skylights punctuate the roof and funnel light into the interior

Near the house's entrance, the roof is punctured by a gable-shaped void that allows daylight to filter through the leaves of a tree planted on the paved terrace below.

The entrance passage extends through to the central courtyard, which contains a small garden dedicated to the siblings' late mother. This simple memorial gives the project its title, The House of Remembrance.

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Large glass walls lining the living room, study, and an open-plan kitchen and dining area enhance the sense of connection between these communal spaces and the central garden, as well as providing views through to planted areas along the site's edges.

Sliding doors can be opened to allow the breeze to ventilate the rooms naturally while providing direct access to the gardens.

The ground floor living spaces are organised around a remembrance garden

Bedrooms on the upper level are accommodated within the roof's steep gables. Large openings carved into the roof provide bedroom balconies overlooking the perimeter gardens.

Double-height voids create a visual connection between the two levels, allowing communal spaces, including the kitchen and living area, to be viewed from corridors on the upper floor.

The home boasts a highly symmetrical design

Passages connecting the different spaces on the ground floor form a circle surrounding the courtyard. These curved corridors create a continuous procession that emphasises the sacred nature of the central memorial.

"Since the circle has no edges or terminating vantage points, it allows one to always find a return to the centre both spiritually and physically," Neri&Hu added.

It was informed by the arrangement of traditional Chinese siheyuan buildings

Architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu founded their interdisciplinary architecture and design office in 2004. The practice has worked on projects across all scales and in many countries, adopting a research-led approach that produces inventive, context-driven solutions.

The firm's previous projects include a stone-clad whisky distillery near Mount Emei in China's Sichuan province and a restaurant in Paris featuring a cylindrical tiled volume inserted within the existing aged stone walls.

Photography is byFabian Ong.

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Neri&Hu adds mesh-clad guesthouse to Shenzhen urban village

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has converted a nine-storey residential building in Nantou City, Shenzhen, into a guesthouse wrapped in a metal mesh.

The Shanghai-based studio aimed to reflect the cultural heritage of buildings in the Nantou City urban village within its design for the guesthouse.

The entrance of the guesthouse is directly connected to the alleyways of the local neighbourhood

It stripped back and cut open the original building's structure to reveal different layers of materials to guests.

According to the studio, this reflects an urban village – a phenomenon in China where agricultural villages were swallowed by the mass and speedy urbanisation but remain as distinct entities.

Neri&Hu inserted a new metal stairwell into the old structure

Existing, exposed structural elements were combined with modern additions throughout the building.

"The contrast and tension between old and new, past and present are very much part of the spacial and sectional experience of the project," said Lyndon Neri, founding partner of Neri&Hu.

The open facade allows natural light and street life into the building

The guesthouse's small entrance was designed to not stand out within the intricate narrow alleyways of the urban village.

It was clad in a light steel screen-like cladding that gives the building a modern appearance while letting natural light into the building.

All rooms are designed differently with unique view

An existing stairwell that previously connected all nine floors was cut open and expanded to create a new internal courtyard.

A metal stair was suspended within the space to allow visitors to access the upper floors.

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Neri&Hu designed each of the rooms to have its own individual identity.

"We made the building retain its original 'bones' and 'skin' but add another layer of covering, so it takes on multiple readings of history and presence," said Rossana Hu, founding partner of Neri&Hu.

The heavy volumes on the rooftop are designed to look like a hat

The building is topped with a dining space and rooftop terrace.

A pair of metallic monoliths sit on the rooftop platform containing heating and ventilation units that Hu said change the building "like a nice hat that gives a new identity".

Other recent buildings completed by Neri&Hu include a whisky distillery in Sichuan province and Aranya Art Center in Qinhuangdao.

The photography is by Hao Chen and top video is by Runzi Zhu.

Project credits:

Client: Shenzhen Vanke Co
Architecture design: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Interior design: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
FF &E design and procurement: Design Republic
Partners-in-charge: Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu
Senior Associate-in-charge: Chris Chienchuan Chen
Senior Associate: Christine Chang
Associate: Sanif Xu
Design team: Bingxin Yang, Dian Wang, Ningxin Cheng, Peter Ye, Bernardo Taliani de Marchio, Cheng Jia, Xiaotang Tang, Jieqi Li, Pengpeng Zheng, Eric Zhou, Yoki Yu, Zhikang Wang, Tong Shu, Matthew Sung, Kany Liu, July Huang, Lyuqitiao Wang
Design Management: Urban Research Institute of China Vanke
LDI: Bowan Architecture Co., Ltd.
Facade consultants: PAG Facade Systems Co
Interior LDI: Hign Decoration Design Engineering Co
Lighting: Grand Sight Design International Limited
Landscape: Yuanye Landscape Design
Civil Engineering: West Construction Shenzhen
Facade contractors: Shanghai Bestin Industry Co; West Construction Shenzhen
Interior contractors: Shenzhen Chuangbao Decoration Co
Steel Construction: Shenzhen Chuangbao Decoration Co
Doors and windows ：Schüco International (Beijing) Co

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Rossana Hu named chair of the department of architecture at Tongji University

Rossana Hu of ​​Neri&Hu has been appointed chair of the department of architecture at Tongji University in Shanghai, becoming the first woman to hold the position.

The architect and founding partner of design studio Neri&Hu was appointed to the position at Tongi University's College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) on 21 December.

"I am extremely honoured to be appointed to this position," said Hu. "Not just because it is an amazing opportunity to be teaching in this top institution, but also the close proximity I will have with the best thinkers and doers in China’s architecture realm."

Hu is the first woman to chair the department of architecture at CAUP and is also the first architect to hold the position who has not previously studied at the university. Previously, all chairs of the department of architecture at CAUP were Tongji Univesity graduates.

Top: Rossana Hu is the first woman to chair the department of architecture at Tongji University. Above: Neri&Hu recently completed a whiskey distillery in China. Photo by Chen Hao

The appointment is part of CAUP dean Li Xiangning’s ambition to make the institution, which is one of China's top architecture schools, a global name.

"As Hu brings a diverse and global perspective to the school, more channels of international communication are sure to open up for architectural research and teaching at Tongji," said Li.

"Today, all landmark buildings in Shanghai are connected to Tongji" said Hu. "Will we create groundbreaking works and leave Tongji marks all over the world one day?"

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Founded in 1952, Tongi University's CAUP comprises three departments: the Department of Architecture, the Department of Urban Planning and the Department of Landscape Architecture, with 222 full-time faculty members and researchers.

Hu has previously collaborated with CAUP on a series of lectures and exhibitions between 2014 and 2017. This year, Neri&Hu’s solo exhibition Works in Permanent Evolution was also presented at CAUP.

Other academic positions held by Hu include John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard University, Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at Yale University and Visiting Professor at The University of Hong Kong.

Neri&Hu's Works in Permanent Evolution exhibition was presented at Tongji University this year

Hu received her master of architecture and urban planning from Princeton University and a bachelor of arts in architecture and music from the University of California at Berkeley.

She worked for Michael Graves & Associates in Princeton and The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in San Francisco, among others, before cofounding Neri&Hu Design and Research Office in Shanghai with Lyndon Neri in 2004.

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Neri&Hu was named architecture studio of the year at this year’s Dezeen Awards.

"Neri&Hu is a practice that has been steadfast in navigating their close knowledge and precise skill for design from furniture and interiors through to city scale, moving the discipline, practice, craft and education of architecture and architects across East and west seamlessly,” Dezeen Awards judges’ commented.

Neri&Hu is based in a former staff dormitory building in Shanghai, which the studio converted into its own offices last year.

Other recent projects by the studio include a campus for elevator manufacturer Schindler in Shanghai and a stone-clad whiskey distillery for Pernod Ricard in China's Sichuan province.

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A Chinese whisky distillery features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a whisky distillery in China designed by Neri&Hu.

Shanghai studio Neri&Hu has completed an expansive whisky distillery in China's Sichuan province named Shan-Shui.

The distillery, whose name translates as mountain water, occupies a 13-hectare site surrounded by mountains and a winding creek.

Readers are wowed. One said, "Beautiful use of water".

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Neri & Hu completes stone-clad whisky distillery in China for Pernod Ricard

Mount Emei forms the backdrop for this expansive whisky distillery, which Shanghai studio Neri & Hu has completed in China's Sichuan province.

Named Shan-Shui, which translates as mountain water, the distillery occupies a 13-hectare site surrounded by mountains and a winding creek.

Three long buildings feature in the distillery that Neri & Hu has created for Pernod Ricard

Shan-Shui was designed by Neri & Hu to house whisky brand Pernod Ricard's first Chinese distillery.

According to the studio, its design celebrates its rural setting and represents "the Chinese notion of the duality of natural elements, which make up the world we live in".

The buildings contain whisky production facilities

"While shan [mountain] represents strength and permanence, shui [water] represents fluidity and transformation; they are two opposing yet complementary forces," said Neri & Hu.

"In the spirit of this philosophy, the position of the proposal is to conceive a gesture whose very strength lies in its humbleness and simplicity, by its profound respect for nature."

An underground experience centre is capped by a sculptural brick platform

Shan-Shui's facilities include whisky production areas, which are contained within three long buildings on the north side of the site.

These buildings, which are tucked into the natural slope of the land, sit parallel to each other and feature gradually descending pitched roofs.

A restaurant has a courtyard at its centre

Their roofs are lined with reclaimed clay tiles, which top a concrete structure intended as a modern interpretation of vernacular Chinese architecture.

The walls of the buildings are clad with rocks derived from boulders that were extracted from the ground during site-levelling.

The underground experience centre has a domed atrium

The distillery also incorporates two visitor experience buildings – one circular and the other square-shaped.

According to Neri & Hu, these designs nod to Chinese philosophy, in which the circle and the square represent heaven and Earth, respectively.

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The round experience building, which is partially submerged in the ground, contains five subterranean tasting rooms around a domed courtyard with a cascading water feature.

Above ground, this building resembles a sculpture composed of three concentric brick rings, which act as a platform for visitors to enjoy a panoramic vista of the site.

A water fountain sits at the centre of one visitor building

The square building, which contains a restaurant and bar, features cantilevers on two sides – one of which hovers over the bank of the creek.

Neri & Hu organised the dining space around the building's edges, while an open-air courtyard at its centre is oriented to frame Mount Emei.

The buildings are dominated by concrete and stone

Concrete and stone are the predominant materials used across the site in order to visually unify the buildings.

Accent materials include wood and copper, which nod to the equipment used in whisky production such as aged oak casks and copper distillation pots.

Wooden detailing references old casks

Neri & Hu is a Shanghai-based architecture and design studio founded by Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu in 2004. Other recent buildings completed by the studio include the Aranya Art Center in Qinhuangdao.

Elsewhere, it completed the Junshan Cultural Center near Beijing and a campus for elevator manufacturer Schindler in Shanghai that both make use of reclaimed brick.

The photography and video are by Chen Hao.

Project credits:

Architect: Neri & Hu
Partners-in-charge: Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu
Associate director-in-charge: Nellie Yang
Associates: Utsav Jain, Siyu Chen
Design team: Feng Wang, Guo Peng, Josh Murphy, Fergus Davis, Alexandra Heijink, Vivian Bao, Yota Takaira, Rosie Tseng, Nicolas Fardet, Yin Sheng, Lili Cheng, July Huang, Luna Hong, Haiou Xin
FF &E design: Design Republic
Landscape design: YIYU Design
Experience design: BRC Imagination Arts
Construction (architecture & landscape): Qi'an Group, Suzhou Hezhan
Construction (interior): K&H International

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neri & hu completes fuzhou teahouse to enclose an intricate historic structure

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