Sk arch. & D Shekou foundation | best of best - "Shekou group" whisky tasting meeting

2020-11-09


China‘s reform and opening up began in Shekou, Shenzhen. Shekou is a magical place. A large number of factories in the early stage of reform and opening up have been relocated. The urban space scale here is pleasant, with a large number of public spaces, green parks and a group of people who know how to live. Now Shekou has become a pilot field of the free trade zone and a gathering place for creative industries - designers.
In Shekou, there is a design group called [SK arch. & D Shekou creative association], which we jokingly call "Shekou group", with a small number of less than 30 people. However, there is a hard index for joining the group, that is, it must be the boss of the design enterprise!



Our group has its own tradition of holding academic salons from time to time. Based on the principle of "meeting to solve small problems and meeting to solve big problems", each boss takes turns to hold lectures, share design experience, exchange design ideas and share design intelligence. Of course, he also gossips from time to time and finds a "melon" to eat. During the salon, the owner of the villa usually prepares some refreshments, but the grade of refreshments has increased in recent activities.


Recently, designers in Shekou group have won international awards one after another, and the winning rate has reached 15%. The specific winning list is as follows:
1. The highest award of "amp" master architect Award "landscape architecture was awarded by Jane Z studio
2. Award "amp" architectural master Award "honorary award 2021ctbuh award winner: jkp
3. Award "2020 ad100 young" winner: Yishu architecture
4. Award "2020 ad100 young" winner: wanshe design

▲  Jane Z Studio award-winning work


▲  JKPTeam award winning works

As an active member of our group, Ms. Zhang Jianzhen, the beautiful architect of Jane Z studio of Zhang Jianzhen architecture firm, is affectionately called "Bureau seat" by us because she often organizes Bureau. This time, she won two awards in the 2020 architecture masterprize (AMP) American Architecture Master Award, that is, the dichotomy bridge won the best of best, Grassland Silk Road Cultural Exchange Center won the winner of interior design and Exhibition Design Award!


▲  Zhang Jianheng (Bureau seat)

The Bureau seat was very happy to announce the news in the group, which attracted a lot of praise, so everyone encouraged the Bureau seat group Bureau, bureau seat group bureau to celebrate and do what they say. The straightforward Bureau seat immediately decided to hold a whisky tasting celebration at 8 p.m. on Thursday, and announced that three mysterious guests would be present.
In order to increase the temptation, the Bureau seat revealed one of the wine models in advance, and released photos of five wine boxes, suggesting a total of five wines, ha ha! For wine lovers who don‘t pay attention to whisky, I immediately found that this is the "light of Taiwan - Solo" series of karma LAN Kavalan produced in Yilan, Taiwan, the motherland‘s Treasure Island.



▲  Kamaran Kavalan‘s "light of Taiwan - Solo" series

Wu Wenyuan, a senior urban planner in the group, is an old merchant in Shekou. Many high-rise buildings in Shekou were built by them in that year. Mr. Wu was unwilling to be outdone and wanted to bring a guest: "I brought CICI, the chief etiquette coach of Shenzhen Airlines stewardess, an internationally certified three-level wine taster, who knows tea, wine and coffee, has his own brand of coffee, and usually drinks tea with his own hand-painted and personally fired meticulous blue and white tea ware". I immediately became interested in CICI‘s wine. I checked the wine label for a long time and didn‘t find it, Ask an expert friend to say that this is German wine. Finally, CICI who did not meet and communicated first replied as follows:


▲  CICI Head coach of Shenzhen Airlines stewardess etiquette


▲  Communication with cici

Thursday arrived as scheduled. Many people signed up. The Bureau seat sent photos. He was turning the workbench into a big wine table and preparing wine and dishes himself. I chose a bottle of classic sweet red sparkling wine of Italian Medici family as a gift.



The office of the bureau is on the world sea view square at Shekou Sea. In those days, Miss Wu was the design manager. She said that she went to inspect the pile wearing a skirt. The building overlooks the sea world with excellent landscape. When I first came to Shenzhen, I worked in this building, so I was very familiar with it, but the sea world has changed greatly. In my mind, there are three sea worlds, 1999, 2006, 2020 today.


▲  Overlooking the sea world

The Bureau‘s collection

When we arrived at the studio of the Bureau seat, we visited the collection and works of the Bureau seat. The collection is the wooden components of many old houses collected by the Bureau seat: there are kissing, iron knives and wooden arches, household pairs, New Year cake molds, etc.

▲  Iron knife wood bucket arch

Design works of bureau seat

Although the Bureau seat is an architect, it has designed many interesting furniture and garden landscape sketches. Three furniture works were selected in [40 years of Shenzhen design], including a white grille screen called "mountain screen", a couple‘s balance seat called "Que", and a seat "pulse" combining modern and traditional; In particular, the "mountain screen" was imitated by various families on a treasure, and the photos were also made of bureau seats (which can be tolerated, which can‘t be tolerated!).

▲  White grille screen


▲  Couple balance seat "Que"

Auction certificate and award certificate

I was attracted by the award display on the bookshelf. In particular, many design manuscripts and models were sold at a high price at Beijing Poly auction house. It‘s really enviable!



The first mysterious guest


With the arrival of guests one after another, the happy atmosphere became stronger. First of all, let‘s welcome the first mysterious guest: Ms. Wen Huizhen, deputy chief architect of China municipal group, Arup engineering consultant, UK. President Wen said that she only received this invitation yesterday and made a temporary ppt. Taking Guangzhou Nansha project as an example, she introduced her design team and design experience with the idea of "landscape acupuncture" and humanistic planning and design. She said that she was not a traditional architect and should be defined as an architect in a broad sense. Her team members were also full of personality Wide range of interests, many professional types, very characteristic; The process of a project involves landscape, ecology, water conservancy, comprehensive municipal administration, architecture, structure, geotechnical, civil engineering, acoustics, environment, electromechanical, fire prevention, transportation and many other aspects. She calls herself an unorthodox architect. During wine tasting, I joked that she can also call herself an "unorthodox" architect. I also asked about the difference between Arup and Atkins and AECOM. She said that Sir Arup, a structural engineer from Arup, founded the company. The gene injected is not to maximize profits. The pursuit of true design and the sense of mission for world sustainable development are probably the cornerstone of this century old enterprise


▲  Wen Huizhen

The second mysterious guest

The second mysterious guest on the stage really shocked me. She was su huilun, the actor of Pepe in the 1980s Taiwan TV series stars know my heart (this Su huilun is not the singer Su huilun, the singer‘s name is the stage name). In the 1980s, there was a rise in mainland China to watch Taiwan film and television dramas, one of which was "making tears", and there were movies "Mother loves me again", TV series "stars know my heart", etc. people who go to see it often cry and make enough tears for mainland audiences. I still remember that Pepe in the TV series lacks a small tooth and doesn‘t talk much, but she is very thoughtful.


Pepe is now a barrister in the United States and has not taken the road of acting. She introduced to us the whisky distillery called GA Malan Kavalan (generally, the century old stores in Japan are used to using the Scottish name, called distillery, such as the century old store light well Ze distillery, which was officially closed in 2001, but its inventory has become a popular commodity, and the price has risen sharply). It is located in Ilan, Taiwan, and its name comes from the local minority gamalans, The company‘s use of this name fully reflects the company‘s respect and inheritance of local culture. The winery has been established for only 15 years, but it has been widely recognized by the market. It has won more than 200 awards in the world.


▲  Pepe is introducing the whisky distillery


▲  A live group photo of me and Pepe

Pepe brought five wines this time, including three "Taiwan light solo" series, namely "classic solo vinho wine barrel, classic solo Shirley barrel and classic solo Bourbon barrel", and two are "classic single pure wheat" and "Porter barrel single malt" ". let‘s taste them in the order of Pepe. Everyone‘s tastes are different. My emotion is that there are too many inferior whiskies in bars and nightclubs. Although the tastes are similar, only drinking real whisky can realize the charm of this kind of wine. I like two flavors. The first is the" classic solo vinho wine barrel " , with an alcohol content of 58.6 degrees, it is the first wine created and brewed by gamaran. It has won numerous awards and is known as "best of best". It is still the top pillar and sells well up to now. The taste is a little sweet in the mouth and sweet in the end. The second is the last "classic solo Bourbon barrel" , with an alcohol content of 57.8 degrees, it feels very pure and tropical fruit. During Pepe‘s explanation, we raised relevant questions from time to time, and Pepe gave a satisfactory answer.


▲  Pepe‘s five wines are in order of taste

With the process of wine tasting, as the chief coach of 800000 forbidden troops, CICI revealed the true colors of professional wine tasters. She explained a lot of whisky knowledge we don‘t understand from shallow to deep, and taught us a lot of wine tasting knowledge and methods, such as what is single malt, what is Sydney barrel, what is Bourbon barrel, etc. the most interesting thing is, Whisky can also whisk the aroma of whisky on the wrist like perfume. After tasting each wine, everyone said their different feelings. Finally, CICI took another picture in a different order from Pepe. She suggested that we taste it again in this order, and we will have different feelings! I am a person who can‘t afford to drink. I really want to do it again. However, I have to retreat because of such a high degree. I envy people with good drinking capacity.



At this time, Zhou Yiyi and Li Fu from UV unique vision architecture firm came late. They were the teachers who were going to receive teachers from Beijing today, but they said that the wine tasting activity of Shekou group could not be missed. Although they came late, they were very drunk and had CICI. They tasted it systematically under the guidance of CICI. At this time, I saw the arrival of the third mysterious guest, The one led by the bureau looks very much like a star actor. The Bureau seat is very satisfied with today‘s activity. I think she is more drunk. I immediately remind her that an appropriate amount of whisky has too much stamina.
I was also deeply influenced, so I took the initiative to recite a paragraph of Cao Zhi‘s Luoshen Fu to you, so we discussed around the background story behind Luoshen Fu. Whether Cao Zhi loves his sister-in-law may become an eternal topic behind this classic article with the highest literary height in the history of Chinese literature. My view is that there is a company in the article "although it is hidden in the sun, it has long placed its heart on the king", which shows that he wants to use this Fu to flatter the emperor‘s brother Cao embryo. President Fu said that this is to cover up. The Cao family, starting from Cao Cao, likes to think about other people‘s wives and their family tradition, ha ha,,,,



Unconsciously, it was past 0 o‘clock before everyone reluctantly dispersed. They walked quietly on the way home. Looking at the night scene of Shekou, it was so quiet and peaceful, and everything became a good memory again!
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