Coffee manor in Baoshan selected as top 10 building of China
The Xinzhai Coffee Manor at night
ArchDaily, a well-known architecture weblog, unveiled the 10 finalists of its China Building of the Year 2020 Award on April 23.
The Xinzhai Coffee Manor in Baoshan, Yunnan province, has been selected from over 800 architectures nationwide and named a top 10 building of 2020.
The manor has been entirely constructed by red and grey bricks.
Sitting in Lujiangba in southwest Yunnan’s Baoshan city, the Xinzhai Coffee Manor was created by Trace Architecture Office (TAO) in March 2018. It covers a total area of 3140 square meters.
The entire site consists of three parts: an abandoned movie theater built in the 1980s, a coffee house as well as a three-storey main building to preserve and process coffee beans.
Facade of a building inside the manor
The main building
As many as 760,000 bricks (including over 40,000 red bricks and 30,000 grey ones) have been used throughout this construction project.
First floor of the main building, where coffee beans are stored
Roasting and packaging which require large space are conducted on the second floor.
Third flour is an open space where visitors can overlook the landscape of Lujiangba to the north.
It’s worth mentioning that by connecting different buildings on this site through a set of corridors, architects have formed three separate courtyards as a result, namely the central courtyard, tree courtyard as well as sunken courtyard.
Central courtyard, as the biggest courtyard, is located at the very center of the site.
Tree Yard is named after a colossal banyan tree aged 250 years old.
Sunken courtyard, which has to be reached by a concrete stair
“‘History’ and ‘culture’ are the two key words of our coffee manor. We want to popularize it by combining different ideas and elements,” said Xie Xiawen, general manager of the Xinzhai Coffee Manor.
“I hope that we can turn the manor in to a ‘sacred place’ for both architecture enthusiasts and coffee lovers where they are allowed to enjoy the buildings, natural views, coffee as well as cuisines made from coffee beans all together,” he added.
A stair formed by grey bricks
A corridor from where picturesque landscapes can be enjoyed
Other works on the top 10 list encompass the Jishou Art Museum in Hunan, Bambow Bridge in Anhui, Aranya Art Center in Hebei, Hutong Bubbles 218 Urban Renovation Project in Beijing, Nanchang Red Earth Park in Jiangxi, Beijing Daxing International Airport, Perfect Car Factory in Zhejiang, as well as Geijoeng Concept Store and Little House Project in Guangdong.
Reporting by Li Hengqiang and Wang Huan (Yunnan Daily); trans-editing by Wang Jingzhong; photos providing by Su Shengliang