#Daohua

[murderedbyhomework]

There's a saying somewhere on the cn fandom that 如果角姐是戀愛腦，李相夷便是師兄腦 (if jiao liqiao is love brain, Li Xiangyi was shixiong brain) and like it's so true tho. Like we as a random do not talk about just how much Li Xiangyi/Li Lianhua loved his shixiong, even outside the obvious "spending his remaining 10 years with the one goal of finding his shixiong's remains and immediately giving up on fighting against death after finding sgd to the extent where dfs had to bring out the big guns to get llh to continue living for a while".

There's way too many stuff I could talk about but I'll briefly talk about Wenjing. As depicted in canon, Wenjing was sgd's 18th birthday present for lxy, made from Yun Metal (not that lxy knew it at the time). The name of the sword itself says a lot about lxy's love for his shixiong. Wenjing (刎頸）refers to the phrase 刎頸之交, aka "a friendship/relationship one would slit their throat for, referring to friendships where one would willingly and gladly lay down their life for the other". Li Xiangyi is the one who names this sword, and he directly references this phrase when naming the sword. One could say wenjing was a symbol of just how much sgd meant to lxy.

So how much does wenjing mean to Li Xiangyi/Li Lianhua? Going off canon, lxy was a bit of a peacock, and he liked to show off things he deemed impressive, yet for things that were actually really important to him, such as his love for cheap candy, he kept close to his chest. So what about Wenjing? It's a beautiful sword, and very well made, but Li Xiangyi never showed it off to anyone and kept it extremely private, because in his opinion, sgd's gift was something he wanted to keep just for himself. As top of the Jianghu, a lot of him was shown to the public and under public scrutiny, everything about him placed on the spotlight, placed on a pedestal, yet lxy was possessive enough over this sword to keep it to himself, like a secret only his shixiong and himself would know.

And then there's lxy always keeping wenjing on him even during his years as llh. As lxy, he had shaoshi as a sword already, and he didn't need another sword on him, not really, because he's proven that even disarmed he's not defenseless, but he kept wenjing on him anyway, because it was probably a symbol of his shixiong's love for him. And as llh, he would continue keeping the sword on him, despite being a wandering doctor who supposedly knew no martial arts and would be too poor to have such a beautiful sword.

And finally, llh chose to destroy shaoshi instead of using it to end himself (it's canon he literally said to shaoshi "using you to end me is rather inappropriate"), but despite wenjing later being revealed as, in fact, a sign of sgd's betrayal and hate of llh, llh never destroyed that it. He did throw it into a cliff face so no one could ever reach it again (low key excalibur situation hmn), but in my mind, it wasn't ever an action of hate against sgd, not a rejection of his gift, but rather llh throwing wenjing away from himself before he could actually get really mad and destroy this gift from his shixiong. He might have left wenjing behind when he went off to die, but we all know Llh's love language is abandonment.

[eirenical]

So... AS USUAL, approaching scary deadline immediately sends my brain into overdrive writing mode, so EVERY FIC IDEA I've had for the past oh... 3-6 months or so has come STREAMING OUT OF MY BRAIN every time I sit down at my computer. OTZ

Which is to say that there will be about 2K+ words of TRULY ill-advised (yet... honestly pretty consensual if you ignore the inherent power imbalance of LLH being chained up in a dungeon) daohua prison sex coming your way in another day or two when I have time to do some edits.

...hope someone other than me is feeling that. 😅

[travalerray]

*wakes up in cold sweat* Li Lianhua kept Shan Gudao's sword wrapped tightly around his arm, his right arm even, hidden under his sleeves, clutching his heart close to his chest—for all those years as he hunted for his body

[acequinz]

Saw that post about DaoHua and honestly agreed because the fucked up possibilities are endless.

If Shan Gudao and Li Lianhua were some sort of romantic. It would just fuck Li Lianhua up so much more in every format.

Shan Gudao dead? Yes that's his one and only dead.

Then if we still want to go difanghua route with this.

Li Lianhua being some sort of attracted to Di Feisheng whether it's physical or they agreed on some mental/psychological level whatever the word is for that or maybe even just respect for him and that's why Li Lianhua signs the peace treaty only for it end up with Shan Gudao dead. The man he loved, the man who looked out for him, his shixiong(? Is that the right word) the guilt being just as strong.

But then 10 years later he's falling for another bright man when he himself is very jaded and fang Duobing turns out to be Shan Gudao's son.

And the combined betrayal and pain, because the man he loved sired another child (if they were romantically involved if not it could still be painful) and here he is romancing said child who has now grown into a handsome young man and looks up to Li Xiangyi so much.

Oh the needles of pain would be pain-ing.

And then the reveal that he was never dead and all of this was a ruse to show him and hurt him. The man that supposedly loved him and said loved him (let's say they were physically involved too.) the person he opened his heart and body to was just playing it all.

With his heart and everything.

Well it's still pretty much the same as canon but it would also be a physical violation if we go that way and complicate the romance of my ot3 so much more.

Like it's pretty good in the drama but that extra bit of trauma.

Heck the way the relationship between xiangyi and Gudao itself could fuck him up so bad no bicha poison required ...

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Shanghai Zi Fu Hui: A hidden restaurant in the midst of the bustling metropolitan by LDH Architectural Design Read more: Link in bio! Photography: Wang Ting LDH Architectural Design: Designer Liu Daohua often applies "architectural thinking" in interior design, combining color with shape to build a strong visual impact and a unique personal temperament of space art. This kind of temperament can best reflect the designer's philosophy, but it also requires the designer to have a good foresight, firm grip of work and a steady "challenger" mentality towards the project… #china #restaurant #interiordesigner #архитектура www.amazingarchitecture.com ✔ A collection of the best contemporary architecture to inspire you. #design #architecture #amazingarchitecture #architect #arquitectura #luxury #realestate #life #cute #architettura #interiordesign #photooftheday #love #travel #construction #furniture #instagood #fashion #beautiful #archilovers #home #house ‎#amazing #picoftheday #architecturephotography ‎#معماری (at Shanghai, China) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca8vpW5sRl8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Designer Liu Daohua’s evocative aesthetic exploration!

The evocative Zi Fu Hui restaurant in Shanghai spotlights designer Liu Daohua’s nuanced skill of bridging international, contemporary aesthetics with oriental sentiments while bringing architectural sensibilities to interior design. https://bit.ly/LDHDesign_IAnD

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Taste Jiangnan Restaurant Nanjing, Interior Design

Taste Jiangnan Restaurant, Nanjing Interior Design, Jiangsu Province Dining Space, New Chinese Architecture Photos

Taste Jiangnan Restaurant, Nanjing

27 May 2022

Tasting closely links with simmering in terms of delicacy.

Architects: LDH Design

Location: 50th floor of Golden Eagle International Hotel, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Taste Jiangnan Restaurant, Golden Eagle International Hotel, Nanjing

Simmering means making delicacies with small firepower in a slow way to stimulate beautiful experience from food, and tasting means enjoying delicacies from good simmering practice. They mutually have a relationship of cause and effect. Taste Jiangnan not only is about the meaning of words, but also contains the life style, life pace and food culture in Jiangnan. The Chinese restaurant “Taste Jiangnan” was named for this reason.

Taste Jiangnan is located on the 50th floor of Nanjing Golden Eagle Hotel, so that guests can overlook Nanjing at this quiet but commanding environment here. Based on the water town scenery in Jiangnan, Designer Liu Daohua realized a cross-dimensional dialogue between traditional Jiangnan and modern aesthetics by transforming traditional architecture, rural settlements and Huaiyang cuisine into his design language, to pay tribute to the graceful water towns as described in the poem sentence “The ladies selling wine in restaurants are very beautiful in Jiangnan. Their arms are as white as snow when they lift their sleeves”.

Liu Daohua is famous for his design of restaurants, cafes and the like. He is good at transforming natural life and cultural characteristics into elements in the space, combining practicability and artistic expression, and using architectural techniques to reshape the originally single space and explore the purest diet and life.

Just entering the restaurant, guests will be attracted to a teahouse area. As a core area and first impression at the entrance, such teahouse area was designed with practices different from conventional ones and integrates the concept of a traditional garden. After passing through a “forest path”, a winding one as a spatial movement line, guests come to a place for appreciation, communication and leisure which is enclosed under the eaves of modern deconstruction. Several seating scenarios were set up to satisfy the diverse needs of different customer groups. Furniture was designed in a simple but advanced manner, and their red brown, burlywood and black overlap into different color levels to show elegance.

In Taste Jiangnan, its indoor decoration deems dark brown as the fundamental key on the whole, and is embellished with deep or shallow brass with the texture of log, which forms a bright color line jumping out of profound colors. With a sense of Jiangnan architecture, the space creates a delicate sense of layers with these scattered colors and shadows, thus providing guests with an elegant and quality dining experience.

As the highest restaurant in Nanjing, Taste Jiangnan is connected with the outside with the large-scale French windows, so that guests can overlook the scenery of Nanjing with an excellent vision, including the graceful Qinhuai River and Zhongshan Mount. The designer specially set up private boxes with the architectural style of Jiangnan water towns, which are independent each other but connected mutually, and quiet in sufficient ritual feeling.

Plum blossom, the top of the 24 major flowers, is the city flower of Nanjing. It not only has the elegant appearance of flowers, but also auspiciously implies “five blessings in plum blossoms” with its five petals. With “plum blossom” as a theme concept element, the designer deduced it in different details of the space and formed a theme design for the whole space, as if fragrant plum blossom drifts freely under the sunshine. These staggered petals form both the mark of life and majestic beauty.

The designer created a unique artistic ceiling for Taste Jiangnan by retaining the most classic silhouette of plum blossom based on its extracted shape. The patterns of the ceramic tiles customized for Taste Jiangnan also correspond to the theme of plum blossom, and countless petal elements together constitute the blooming trend of Taste Jiangnan.

There is a saying in the Wei Chi Hexagram of the I Ching (Yi · Weiji), “Each shall live in a square place, so that all have their steady residences.”, which means that square can domicile people in a peaceful and pleasing manner. With the perspective of inheritance, acceptance and recovery, the modern space was highlighted with some local characteristics in Taste Jiangnan. Sometimes, space design must surpass the requirements of pure functions and combine with traditional architectural culture, so as to realize the spiritual meaning of space and trigger the spiritual resonance of people.

Taste Jiangnan Restaurant, Golden Eagle International Hotel, Nanjing – Building Information

Project Name: Taste Jiangnan Restaurant Project Location: Golden Eagle International Hotel, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China Project Area: 800㎡ Design Firm: LDH Design – www.ldhdesign.cn Chief Designer: Liu Daohua

品煨江南

项目名称：品煨江南 项目地点：江苏省南京市金鹰国际酒店 项目面积：800㎡ 设计公司：LDH刘道华建筑设计事务所设计 (www.ldhdesign.cn) 主创设计师：刘道华 品煨江南 “品煨”与“品味”谐音又同义。 煨者，小火慢炖也，煨而出味，好味则传煨，互为因果。讲的是文字意趣，内含的是江南水乡不瘟不火的生活情调、节奏以及饮食文化。

“品煨江南”以此为名。这座位于南京金鹰酒店50层的中餐厅，城市秘境般的姿态眺望秦淮。设计师刘道华以江南水乡为依托，将传统建筑、乡村聚落以及淮扬菜系脉络转化为设计语言，实现一场传统江南与现代美学的跨维对话，致敬那“垆边人似月”的曼妙水乡。

刘道华因餐饮设计而闻名，他擅长将自然生活与人文特色转化为空间中的元素，强调在地性与艺术手法的结合，以建筑手法，重塑原本单一的空间，探求最纯粹的饮食与人生。

刚进入餐厅，便被茶座区吸引视线。作为入口处的焦点区域和第一印象，它的设计区别于常规的做法，融入了传统园林的构想。顾客随着空间动线曲径通幽，经过一条“林间小道”，现代解构的屋檐下围合出一处可供品鉴、交流、休闲的场所，设计师构设了多种就座情境，匹配不同人群的多元需求。家具款式简单而不失高级感，红棕色、原木与黑色，叠合出不同的色彩层次，尽显典雅。

“品煨江南”室内整体以深棕为基调，点缀深浅相搭的原木质感黄铜，沉稳的色彩倏尔跳脱出一抹亮色。极具江南建筑感的空间因色彩与光影的错落，产生细腻的层次感，进而为食客营造优雅与品质感的用餐体验。

作为南京“海拔”最高的餐厅，“品煨江南”以超大尺度的落地窗与外部接洽，食客以绝佳的视野俯瞰南京城市景观，品味秦淮婀娜，遥观钟山风雨。设计师专门设置的江南水乡建筑风格的包厢，彼此独立却又在相互连接，幽静之中饱含仪式感。

梅花，居二十四番花信之首，是南京市市花，不仅花貌疏影清雅，五片花瓣更有“梅开五福”的吉祥之意。设计师将“梅花”作为主题概念元素，演绎在空间的不同细节中，形成贯穿整个空间的主题���设计。如同日光照射下，梅花暗香飘荡洒落，这些交错的花瓣是生命的印记，亦形成了一种磅礴的美。

设计师提取花型，保留其最经典的剪影，为餐厅打造独具特色的艺术天花吊顶。地面定制的瓷砖图案也呼应了梅花主题，无数的花瓣元素共同构成品煨江南的绽放之势。

《易·未济》有云：“各居其方，使皆得安其所。”这寓意着——以方能安居，居得其所。以传承、接受、焕古的视角，让现代的空间增添了几分地方特色。有时候，空间设计必须超越纯粹的功能的诉求，结合传统建筑文化，实现空间的精神意义，触发人们心灵深处的灵魂共鸣。

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Create new projects by combining experiences with global ideas.

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In recent years, he has been focusing on the domestic and international design fields, and has won several heavyweight awards and honors.

Hundreds of media around the world have extensively reported on LDH DESIGN’s design works.

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Integrating the logical system between aesthetics, business, culture, design and space, he is good at using architectural space thinking to promote the practice of “deconstructed form” conceptualization. Create works that are aesthetic, functional, and economical.He is also the first mover in China to put space experience first.

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Use architecture to build a space where value and experience come first.

As the “wind vane” in the high-end catering space design industry, the preferred catering space design agency for “Michelin, Black Pearl” restaurants , LDH Design is continuously contributing to the development of the space design industry.

Providing international architectural, interior and other overall space environment design, including: high-end dining spaces, commercial spaces, boutique hotels, club spaces, luxury residences and art consultants.

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[kaameiii]

daohua buffet

[teabeaus-blog]

2013 Fengqing Daohua Xiang Raw Pu Erh Cake Tea

2013 Fengqing Daohua Xiang Raw Pu Erh Cake Tea

This Pu Erh Tea was picked in the autumn of 2012 and pressed into cakes in the spring of 2013; but you can still catch its slight high-mountain charm, which is also the origin of this Fengqing Daohua Xiang Raw Pu Erh Cake Tea. Because of this, usually we don’t need to concern ourselves about the organic status When sipping, it is very rich in taste, offers slightly bitter but quickly disappeared,…

[murderedbyhomework]

So Li Xiangyi, and therefore Li Lianhua, canonically loves candy right, and not just any type of candy, it's those really cheap commonplace kind of candy, like the modern Chinese equivalent would be white rabbit candy. Has anyone considered if the reason why he likes candy so much is because as a kid on the streets, he probably never got to buy or eat candy like most other kids his age, until he got adopted? Okay, now imagine kid/teen Shan Gudao stealing candy from a store because he saw Li Xiangyi staring at the candy, and that being lxy's first conscious memory of getting to eat candy, and that type of candy always reminding him of his shixiong.

Fun bonus:

The taste of sugar removes any taste of blood from your mouth decently well especially if its the really strong sweetness from cheap candy (personal experience, I get nosebleeds), so it's perfectly plausible that Li Lianhua would just eat the type of candy he liked after bicha poison flareups and imagine that his shixiong was by his side and comforting him like when they were kids.

[eirenical]

Worship (2452 words) by eirenical

Li Lianhua went still, waiting for the next insult, the next threat, the next degradation… but there was nothing. A whisper of cloth-on-cloth was all that betrayed Shan Gudao's location, fidgeting slowly back and forth in place. Then, so quietly that Li Lianhua almost didn't hear it, Shan Gudao muttered under his breath, a slight rasp in his voice that spoke of some heightened emotion, "I could put you on your knees right now."

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Tags, detailed warnings, and notes below the cut.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Li Lianhua | Li Xiangyi/Shan Gudao Characters: Li Lianhua | Li Xiangyi, Shan Gudao Additional Tags: Dubious Consent, (this is a YMMV dubcon), (see notes for details), Blow Jobs, Unhealthy Relationships, Pining, Impotence, Power Imbalance, Chains, Imprisonment, Blindness, Fantasizing, Insults, Hair-pulling, Subspace, Aftercare, (at least a little)

September 13, 2024: The relationship between Li Lianhua and Shan Gudao is so deliciously messy that I can't help but want to pick it apart to see what makes it tick. This was born of watching episode 38 a few too many times. Something about the way that Shan Gudao threatens to drive Li Lianhua to his knees... 😏 Thus this fic. XD Enjoy? ^_^

Detailed warnings: As I noted in the tags, this is a YMMV dubcon situation. Li Lianhua has been fantasizing about Shan Gudao since he was very young and it's his idea to drop to his knees and offer the blowjob, and it's Shan Gudao who initially hesitates. Li Lianhua is most enthusiastically into it. But he's also chained up in Jiao Liqiuao's dungeon and Shan Gudao has life-or-death kind of power over him in this instance. So, that's up to you where you decide this falls on the dubcon/not dubcon scale?

Tagging people who expressed interest by commenting on/reblogging the other post (feel free to ask me to untag you if you'd rather not be tagged): @philologicalbat @ilgaksu @paerlia @omgpurplefattie

[murderedbyhomework]

Wip Wednesday but it's friday

Ngl I feel like the mlc fandom is kinda sleeping on the sheer fuckery that is daohua, so here's ig now I'm going on a daohua tangent in my difanghua wip

Yes Shan Gudao is still 10 years older than Li Xiangyi in this

[murderedbyhomework]

Unhinged shit I've said on discord part 1/?

(yeah ig this is a name reveal I'm Cass lol)

[murderedbyhomework]

I think the funniest thing that could happen is if daohua actually did happen (OK not fun for lxy bc he's definitely being taken advantage of but we don't think about that rn) but fdb still has his huge puppy crush on llh

So llh is just internally going "I could've been your stepmother stop crushing on me wtf"

Meanwhile Dfs in the corner: 哇相夷你玩這麼刺激的 (wow Xiangyi your life is this exciting?)

(he's totally not drinking vinegar at the fact that both father and son got llh to fall for them)

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LU Style Restaurant in #Beijing, China by LDH Architectural Design Read more: Link in bio! Photography: Lu Haha LU Style, the latest restaurant designed by LDH Architectural Design / Liu Daohua in Beijing! As one of the Confucian classic works, the Book of Rites writes that the earliest human sacrificial rites started from the form of offering food", indicating that the norms of behavior in catering activities were the origin and even the fundamental embodiment of a civilization. Starting from the shore of the East China Sea, Gaozi, a Chinese philosopher in the Warring States Period, explored the origin of rites and proposed that "appetite and lust are both human nature", implying the profound cultural deposits of Shandong cuisine and its far-reaching influence on the oriental civilization… #china #restaurant #архитектура www.amazingarchitecture.com ✔ A collection of the best contemporary architecture to inspire you. #design #architecture #amazingarchitecture #architect #arquitectura #luxury #realestate #life #cute #architettura #interiordesign #photooftheday #love #travel #construction #furniture #instagood #fashion #beautiful #archilovers #home #house ‎#amazing #picoftheday #architecturephotography ‎#معماری (at Beijing, China) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdhfqb_Mfbe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Mansion Feast Restaurant, Beijing

Mansion Feast Restaurant, Beijing Architecture Studio , Chinese Interior Design Practice Photos

Mansion Feast Restaurant in Beijing

9 May 2022

Interior: LDH Architectural Design

Location: Beijing, Northern China

Photos by As you see – Wang Ting

Mansion Feast Restaurant, Beijing

Beijing-based interior design practice LDH Design has completed Mansion Feast – a 1,230-square-meter restaurant that specializes in Chinese aristocratic cuisine.

Tucked away near a temple in Beijing’s old town, in a hutong in Dongcheng District, the restaurant is set within a renovated, thirty-year-old, traditional, Beijing style, quadrangular, courtyard compound residence known as a siheyuan. Formerly a cultural venue called the Jinyang Hanlin Academy, the compound was transformed into an elegant dining destination that evokes the ceremonial splendor of Chinese imperial residences.

The establishment’s private, indoor dining rooms are available for private gatherings, while its central courtyard is open to the public for afternoon tea and dinner. If a guest books the entire Mansion, they can use the courtyards for musical performances, cocktail parties, exhibitions, press conferences or other events.

As is typical of siheyuans, the compound has three conjoined courtyards surrounded by a series of chambers with traditional, grey, pitch-tiled roofs. These chambers are connected by a corridor running through the middle of the compound.

From the entrance, one passes through an archway then a corridor into the first courtyard where marble paving stones set amidst landscaped waterways lead to an open kitchen that’s semi-concealed by a bamboo “forest”. From behind the bamboo trees, guests can see scrumptious roast duck hanging in the display case of the open kitchen.

To the right of the entrance, is a terrace that functions as a three-dimensional viewing platform where guests can look down at the courtyards, the Beijing Imperial Academy and hutong beyond the compound’s walls, and also take in views of the sky above. A stone staircase leads up to this terrace. LDH installed mirrors panels on the wall of the staircase landing on the terrace level, so a reflection of Beijing’s old town and the golden roof of the Beijing Imperial Academy can be seen before guests step onto the terrace.

“Architecture is the mirror of life. When you see architecture through the mirror, you can feel a building’s past and its essence. Architecture is also the reflection of social life of a place,” says Liu.

From the first courtyard, guests proceed through a door adorned with flowers, along a winding corridor, towards the central courtyard.

“As a visual prelude, the flower-adorned door is both traditional and unrestrained, inviting people to glimpse the vitality and grandeur of Beijing as it looked a century ago,” says LDH’s founder Liu Daohua.

Beyond the central courtyard is the third courtyard – referred to as “the principal yard” – which is connected to a semi-open banquet hall. The ceiling and upper walls of this hall is decorated in gold lacquer, which together with the grey walls and crimson door posts, create an elegant, contemporary atmosphere. “We reconstructed the internal tilt facade of this hall according to a contemporary architectural scale and with modern materials,” says Liu. “On a sunny day, this gilded hall changes with the light and shadow, as if it were breathing,” he adds.

On one side of this banquet hall is a leisure area where guests can relax and chat before or after meals, and on the other side are wine cellars and cigar lounges.

Flanking the principal yard on the east and west are wings that contain private dining rooms – each with their own small garden that looks out to the bamboo “forest”.

Maintaining the architectural integrity of the siheyuan was LDH’s priority, so they removed the dilapidated walls and floors or the original building, but retained the compound’s original structure and layout, along with its existing wells, courtyards, and structural beams.

“We kept the original, colored drawings on the facade too, and integrated them with the surrounding environment. To modernize the space, we installed glass curtain walls along the north and south walls of the main hall. This enhanced the visual connectively of the interior program to the courtyards,” says Liu.

Mansion Feast prides itself in using seasonal ingredients for its changing menus, so LDH kept the existing trees – spring magnolia, summer crape myrtle, begonia, and holly pine – in the four corners of the central courtyard as an homage to the four seasons.

“The courtyards present a wonderful way to frame skyline views and draw sunshine and fresh air into the interior spaces. The sunlight shining on the trees in these outdoor areas create interesting shadow play which adds to the poetic atmosphere of the restaurant,” Liu says.

This project exemplifies LDH Design’s philosophy of being respectful of the relationship between design and nature, architecture and history, and context and culture. “Mansion Feasts is an open platform, which provides a space for everyone. What we’ve designed is a modern restaurant and event venue that celebrates the ancient imperial history of Beijing in an unforgettable way,” says Liu.

Mansion Feast Restaurant in Beijing, China – Building Information

Architects: LDH Architectural Design

Project location: Jianchang Hutong No.22. Haidian District, Beijing Interior area: 920 square meters Design period: 2021.05 – 2021.07 Construction period: 2021.07 – 2021.10 Design company: LDH Design Website: www.ldhdesign.cn Chief designer: Liu Daohua Design team: Cheng Qianyuan, Qu Tianyou, Wang Yanjuan, Yang Ping, Ren Yiqiong Lighting design: Zhu Haiyan Owner: Hanlin Academy (Beijing) JUNHE Chuangzhan Folk Culture Communication Co., Ltd Total budget: 3.5 million RMB Contractor: Beijing Zhongnian Xinsi Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd

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Article: Michele Koh Morollo Photographer: As you see – Wang Ting

Photography: Lu haha

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