For Shanghai-based Atelier Archmixing, design practice is informed by a turn to the everyday. Since it was established in 2009, the studio has been concentrating on familiar, typical programmes in Shanghai and its neighbouring cities, towns and villages in the Yangtze River Delta. The majority of the projects have been small educational, commercial and community-service facilities with humble budgets, and the briefs have included partial interior or facade renovations for modest structures of a type not usually considered historically significant. Attention to everyday urbanism has proven a necessary and effective way of grasping the ever-changing essence of the region's built environment, and of developing homegrown design strategies in response.
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