Shanghai · Xiansuo · Chuangyi MIX

Xiansuo Chuangyi MIX is an urban renewal project on Tianshan Road in Changning District, Shanghai, transforming the derelict 240-metre-long Hongqiao Tiandu commercial building into a youth-oriented creative office and retail hub. Designed by Shanghai Sanli Architectural Design (Jiang Han, Yang Deng, Xu Sili) with CREATER Chuangyi and Jingtai Department Store, the project began in late 2020 and opened in 2021 on an 11,538-square-metre site with 60,145 square metres of floor area. Tianshan Road has nearly a century of history as a workers' new-town commercial spine, but it had been squeezed between the Hongqiao and Zhongshan Park business districts and lacked a youth, fashion and arts offering. The design re-segments the long elevation into three blocks, opening two previously glassed-in terraces as green valleys that link the masses and extend to rooftop gardens, dissolving the oppressive 240-metre street wall and dividing the office into three independently leased lobbies. Along Tianshan Road, a fashion shop-window elevation uses a conventional window-wall system to achieve a curtain-wall effect: retail at the first two floors is pulled flush with full-height glass and aluminium panels, while floors three to five use varied window rhythms, transparent glass, bright paint and silver aluminium to give office spaces a playful, luminous presence at low cost. At the eastern corner with Zunyi Road, Sanli and RHS Design opened the previously sealed corner into a sunken, amphitheatre-like urban plaza with planted edges, stepped seating and links to the metro, usable as a show stage for events. Tenants include the largest Manner Coffee bakery flagship in Puxi, Briant's first Shanghai bread-restaurant concept, a Starbucks Reserve, an Aldi Shanghai Changning first store, Q+ blind-box desserts and a Lawson rebrand, while the basement tunnel hosted the 300-metre Brushing Past tunnel art festival and the second Xiaohongshu community acquaintance fair. MIX stands for Make it X, an open, shared, young, trendy and cultural space for the Tide Tianshan district transformation.