Blue Note Beijing Jazz Club Building, North Chinese Music Venue Interior
Blue Note Beijing Jazz Club
New Music Venue Building in the Capital of China – design by Chiasmus Partners. Inc
16 Jul 2018
Blue Note Beijing Jazz Club
Design: Chiasmus Partners. Inc
Location: 23 Qianmen Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
Blue Note Beijing Jazz Club
English text (scroll down for Chinese):
The project is the first China branch of the age-old Jazz brand from New York City, the Blue Note Jazz Club.
The site is the former American consulate to the Qing Dynasty, a landmark project in itself and just minutes of walk from the forbidden palace in Beijing.

One is faced with the challenge of landing the face of New York cool jazz, in the capital of China, a city so full of Chinese history.
The project takes place in the courtyard of this landmark complex, mostly underground with a grand stair entrance from the east. The procession of the space has a rhythm that was inspired as much by music as the hu-tong complex in the old city of Beijing, with long corridors, twist and turns and also a play between different volumes.

Visitors are moved from the inner garden of the complex via a large set of staircases, slowly down to a entree lobby that has an attached jazz store / cafe. Then a right turn brings them through a long and narrow corridor, lined with a history time line of the development of jazz. At the end of the tunnel one arrives at the grand lobby, now already some 5 meters ...