2026 | Professional

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neü & co is a living experiment where architecture, daily life, and community intersect.
Centered on Common Ground, the café opens to residents and city travelers alike, fostering connections through coffee, light meals, exhibitions, and collaborations.
The design embodies a dialogue between stability and fluidity. Gray concrete forms a grounded base, while curved hollow bricks and metal accents weave with warm birch plywood textures, lending understated tactility. Terracotta walls extend from façade to interior, carrying local memory and blurring inside–outside boundaries. Light dances across surfaces, shifting like musical notes and transforming the space into a sensory gallery.
More than a café, neü & co is a venue for everyday aesthetics. Geometric order meets warm materials, expressing gentle resilience and reinterpreting the balance between tradition and contemporary life, inviting visitors to pause, connect, and feel the subtle warmth embedded in daily living.
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Silzence Style
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KENZO ARCHITECTS & ASSOCIATES Co., Ltd.
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