架构师提供的文本描述。位于上海中心的设计共和国设计社区，把自己想象成一个设计中心，一个供设计师和设计赞助人欣赏、思考、交流、学习和消费的聚集地。它是现代家具零售商设计共和国的新旗舰店，同时也是以设计为中心的零售理念的混合体，包括书籍、时尚、照明、配饰和鲜花。公社还将有一个设计画廊、一个活动空间、一家咖啡馆、米其林主厨杰森·阿瑟顿(JasonAtherton)的一家餐厅，以及一套一居室的设计共和国公寓。

Text description provided by the architects. Design Republic Design Commune, located in the center of Shanghai, envisions itself as a design hub, a gathering space for designers and design patrons alike to admire, ponder, exchange, learn, and consume. It houses the new flagship store for Design Republic, a modern furniture retailer, alongside a mixture of design-focused retail concepts, including books, fashion, lighting, accessories and flowers. The Commune will also have a design gallery, an event space, a café, a restaurant by Michelin-Starred Chef Jason Atherton, and a one-bedroom Design Republic apartment.

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该项目位于1910年英国人建造的警察总部的历史遗迹内，采用外科手术方法进行翻修。首先，轻轻地去除腐朽的木头和石膏，然后小心地恢复仍然生机勃勃的红砖工作，同时将皮肤、关节和器官移植到需要重建的部分上。最后，随着一种全新的附属物的附着，就像假肢一样，使现有的建筑能够发挥新的功能，这座几乎被遗弃的建筑又重新开始了它的生命。

Situated within the historic relic of the Police Headquarters built by the British in the 1910s, the project takes a surgical approach to renovation. First, gently removing the decaying wood and plaster, then carefully restoring the still vibrant red brick work, while grafting on skin, joints, and organs onto parts that needed reconstruction. And finally with the attachment of a brand new appendage which, like a prosthetic, enables the existing building to perform new functions, the nearly abandoned building begins its life again.

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取代街前那些破旧不堪的商店，奈里

Replacing the rather dilapidated row-shops on the street front, Neri&Hu introduced a modern glassy insertion onto the brick façade. To accentuate the historic nature of the main building, the street level periphery is enveloped by transparent glazing to reveal the existing brick work and rough concrete structures. Breathing new life into a traditional colonial building plan, Neri&Hu strategically removed certain floor plates, walls, as well as ceiling panels, to allow a renewed experience of the existing building, one that is fitting for the new functions to which the building now needs to respond.

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在室内建筑中做出了各种小而精确的切口，以揭示建筑物的历史和完整性，同时为在建筑物中移动时的连贯体验创造经验交汇处。与由于历史保护准则而大部分保持原封不动的外观相比，室内已经完全改变了。鲜明的现代白色房间与未触及的砖墙的残渣并排，在某些情况下，暴露在破碎的灰泥墙之下的木车床。清晰的意图背后的细节联系之间的旧和新创造了一个视觉和空间的构造平衡相对于整个建筑。

Various small and precise incisions have been made in the interior architecture to reveal the building’s history and integrity while creating experiential intersections for a coherent experience when moving through the building. Contrasting with the exterior which has mostly been left intact due to historic preservation guidelines, the interior has been completely transformed. The starkly modern white rooms are juxtaposed with untouched remnants of brick walls, and in some cases, exposed wood laths underneath crumbling plaster walls. The clear intentionality behind the detailing of connections between the old and the new creates a visually and spatially tectonic balance in relation to the building as a whole.

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