NIO House, Shanghai Building Design Development, Chinese Car Showroom, Architecture Images
NIO House in Shanghai
Commercial Interior Development in China ? design by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
27 Feb 2018
NIO House
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Location: Shanghai, China
NIO House by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects reinvents the automotive showroom

Danish architectural firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed the first phase of NIO House, an unconventional showroom for electric car company NIO in Shanghai. Through simple use of tactile materials such as Douglas fir, satin stainless steel, terrazzo and fabrics, the space intends to pose a question to the user: Can we make the car an extension of the home"
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has reinvented the traditional car showroom with the opening of NIO House, a new design-centric concept for innovative electric car company NIO. A global start-up based in China, NIO designs and develops high-performance, premium electric and autonomous vehicles.

This month’s opening is the first of two phases of NIO House, a new kind of automotive showroom located in Shanghai’s high-end Taikoo Hui shopping mall. The car manufacturer’s ES8 and EP9 models are on display in an environment that allows the consumer to understand and experience the philosophy of the brand through the space and its materiality.

“NIO has a strong company culture and we wanted to bring that company DNA in...