{"id":136170,"date":"2025-11-16T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/136170\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:36:09","slug":"tent-like-canopies-bring-outdoor-feeling-to-blue-bottle-coffee-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/136170\/","title":{"rendered":"Tent-like canopies bring “outdoor feeling” to Blue Bottle Coffee in Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interior studio Atelier Tao+C<\/a> has designed a cafe for Blue Bottle Coffee<\/a> on Shanghai<\/a>‘s West Bund waterfront, featuring wooden canopies stretched out above a prefabricated concrete counter.<\/p>\n

The cafe overlooks a historic shipyard in West Bund, forming part of a post-industrial site on the Huangpu River that once contained Asia’s largest cement factory.<\/p>\n

\"BlueAtelier Tao+C has completed the Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund<\/p>\n

Dutch firm MVRDV’s masterplan for the redeveloped site<\/a> combines several preserved industrial structures with modern interventions containing cultural and leisure facilities alongside new public spaces.<\/p>\n

Atelier Tao+C<\/a>‘s project, which features on the shortlist for Dezeen Awards 2025<\/a>, aims to reflect the site’s history and its current context alongside food markets, restaurants and event spaces, including Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s West Bund Grand Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"WoodenSlanted timber columns appear to prop up soaring white “canvases”<\/p>\n

“The design is a thoughtful response to its surroundings, integrating the industrial past of the site with the present urban context, while providing a welcoming space for coffee lovers,” the studio said.<\/p>\n

Inside the cafe, a pair of slanted timber columns appear to prop up soaring white “canvases” that divide the space while adding a sense of height and lightness.<\/p>\n

\"ConcreteThe “canopies” are made of painted wood<\/p>\n

The canopies are, in fact, made from painted wood and incorporate spotlights while concealing important mechanical and electrical services.<\/p>\n

“The timber canvases solve spatial and technical challenges,” the studio said. “They give an outdoor feeling to the interior and frame river views, transforming a functional ceiling into an experiential and environmental mediator.”<\/p>\n

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Stainless steel and blue details decorate modular Valley Fair Kiosk for Blue Bottle Coffee\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Throughout the interior, Douglas fir panelling and wooden furnishings provide a warm contrast to the polished concrete floor and prefabricated concrete bar.<\/p>\n

The laminated wood panels are used for display shelves and partitions that separate the kitchen, located in one corner of the unit, from the rest of the space.<\/p>\n

\"HoleThey integrate spotlights and disguise mechanical and electrical services<\/p>\n

Bespoke benches positioned around the cafe’s perimeter combine cast-concrete bases with seats made from timber panels that slot together.<\/p>\n

The coffee bar and benches were fabricated off-site and then put together in the cafe to minimise construction waste and enable precise assembly.<\/p>\n

\"SeatingDouglas fir panelling provides a sense of warmth<\/p>\n

Angular concrete benches with integrated tables are positioned outside the cafe, providing views of the river through the concrete-and-steel framework of the historic cement factory.<\/p>\n

The coffee shop forms part of the Gate M West Bund Dream Center site, combining parts of the existing factory with structures from a previous development proposal.<\/p>\n

\"WoodThe wooden wall panelling also integrates storage<\/p>\n

Many of the district’s buildings were used for the Shanghai Expo 2010, which provided the catalyst for making this part of the river accessible to the city’s residents.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the Dream Center development, local architecture studio Atelier Deshaus overhauled existing buildings to the north of the site<\/a>, while landscape architecture studio Field Operations oversaw the public realm overlooking the waterfront.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Wen Studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has designed a cafe for Blue Bottle Coffee on Shanghai‘s West Bund waterfront, featuring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,84755,84756,36626,1657,438,146,85,46,448,13912,5733],"class_list":{"0":"post-136170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-atelier-taoc","13":"tag-blue-bottle-coffee","14":"tag-cafes","15":"tag-china","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-sectionall","21":"tag-sectioninteriors","22":"tag-shanghai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}