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2022 Year of the Tiger

The inevitable spring greets the new year, the rebirth of all.

Robarts Spaces Partner and Design Director, Yaching Hsueh, and Design Director, Wang Yi, were featured as keynote speakers at Guangzhou Design Week.

Their presentation focused on Robarts Spaces co-creation with Swire for their new Beijing workplace, sharing the extensive collaboration which began with a series of workshops with a wide range of Swire employees, leading to a design focused on collaboration, welllness, and sustainability.

Several months after the workplace was completed, Robarts Spaces conducted a rigorous Post-Occupancy Evaluation with Swire which evaluated usage, staff satisfaction, and achievement of project goals. Learnings from the Post Occupancy Evaluation are being used in the design for an expansion to the workplace, and can subsequently be used in across Swire's new workplaces.

This collaborative ongoing process of co-creation, analysis, and learning breaks through the boundaries of traditional design and build, offering innovation to both design and workplace strategy. For more information, please click here.

Robarts Spaces project for Morgan Stanley’s China HQ in Beijing is featured in an Interior Design magazine online feature. This full scope interior design and build project, which has achieved LEED Gold certification, includes workplace strategy, furnishings, fit-out, lighting, MEP, IT Room design and build, and signage.

This global financial services firm sought to create a coherent, more personalized experience for both clients and team members, that embodies the firm’s corporate identity and values.

The well-appointed reception area features distinctive materials and colors, and unique art pieces. The boardroom’s high-quality furniture and finishes, with a split ceiling detail, compliment additional artwork featured in the space. Detail for the reception desk has an architectural quality found in the layering of stone and wood volumes.

Clear, well-integrated wayfinding, a priority for the firm to enable visitors to have a successful experience, guides clients and guests through the two-floor offices. A large café area maximizes the natural light available. The ample bar and a range of seating formats gives opportunity for staff to socialize, collaborate, relax, or engage in focused work. The café also offers beautiful views of Ditan (Temple of Earth) Park, which can be enjoyed from other areas in the offices including a window walk in elevator lobby.

In the work areas, offices are inboard, allowing all staff to enjoy the natural light, with collaboration zones incorporated into the office areas. To view the original article in Interior Design, please click here.

Robarts Spaces team is honored to be recognized by Alibaba following successfully completing the Alibaba East district renovation project, the largest in Asia to earn WELL Gold certification.

The size and complexity of the Alibaba East buildings presented significant challenges, which were embraced by the project team. Robarts Spaces undertook a complete interior renovation and complete re-design of the building, significantly upgrading the workplace. At the award ceremony Alibaba personnel best described the power of the new design as“…totally unexpected… (we) will not get lost anymore in the buildings… open and luminous… beautiful and modern…”

Robarts Spaces has been awarded the 2021 AD100, Architectural Digest’s recognition of the Top 100 architecture and design firms in China.

We are honored that our firm and designers have received the AD100 biennial award on every occasion over the past ten years. Partner and Design Director Yaching Hsueh, representing Robarts Spaces, received the award for Shui On Land Headquarters Shanghai project. This project celebrates social renaissance, life, connectivity, purpose and people. For more information please click here.