The project site presented a series of difficult challenges as the client plan called for a complete change of function from the past setting of offices and administrative areas to its new usage with a new grand hall, exhibition center, bar, coffee shop and restaurants developed around a newly designed garden foyer in the center of the building; which previously had housed technical facilities in an open courtyard.

The key of innovation of the entire project is focused around the reconfiguration of this new garden foyer where using extremely contemporary design instruments Kokaistudios revolution the original layout of the building by providing a large and airy foyer, hub strategically positioned in the middle of the building to distribute the traffic between different functions.

For the institutional spaces Kokaistudios created a new restyling providing an elegant combination of materials and contemporary iconic furniture so to underline the new course of public Chinese institutions by opening to the rest of the world.