Project Name: Shanghai Donglin Guanhai·Hexing 1913 Restaurant
Project Area: 6,500㎡ (including 27 private rooms, accommodating over 700 diners simultaneously)
Design Team: Yuanxi Creative Design
Design Consultant: Teacher Liang Jianguo
Chief Designer: Duan Yuan
Design Scope: Space, Hard Furnishing, Soft Furnishing, Landscaping
Primary Materials: Bluestone, Metal Mesh, Wood Veneer, Glazed Tiles, Artistic Paint
Construction Firm: Shanghai Pudao Decorative Engineering Co., Ltd.
Design Phase: June 2021
Completion: December 2021
"Donglin Guanhai·Hexing 1913," located in Pudong Expo Park, Shanghai, stands as a modern tribute to the city's steel industry legacy, elegantly redesigned by the acclaimed Duan Yuan. This riverside retreat, with spaces evocatively named after natural and mystical realms, offers a blend of serene beauty and historical depth. The meticulous transformation of this century-old structure into a lifestyle destination and a museum-like space captures the dynamic tranquility of the Huangpu River, inviting guests into an immersive world of refined contemplation and natural elegance.
"Facing the rock, I see the vast sea" – this familiar verse from Chinese poetry inspired the name of the Donglin Guanhai·Hexing 1913 Restaurant. "Hexing 1913" pays homage to the site's original occupant, the Hexing Steel Company founded in 1913, and its location as the former site of Shanghai's No. 3 Steel Plant, bearing witness to the city's industrial heritage.
Today, a century later, Donglin Guanhai·Hexing 1913 emerges as a distinguished riverside dining destination, instantly capturing widespread attention upon its opening. Nestled in the prime area of the Expo Park in Pudong New District, the restaurant sits where the park's central axis meets the Huangpu River, near the Mercedes-Benz Cultural Center, creating a unique urban landscape with the emerging skyscrapers of the Bund on the opposite side.
Amidst the backdrop of urban renewal, this century-old building's interior transformation was led by designer Duan Yuan. The design team distilled the vast imagery of the ocean to craft a modern space spanning nearly 10,000 square meters, grand yet intricately detailed, dynamic yet serene.