In 2011, Li Xiang founded X+Living Architectural Design in Shanghai, and has ever since been building her own design team working at the cutting edge of art, fashion and business. She has gained cross-field achievements by exploring interior design as an architect, creating many design works with commercial and aesthetic values in the culture, retail, hotel and other industries. Her high-profile design has become the benchmark in aesthetic design and strategic design, and won international recognition with a series of top international awards. Li Xiang is the first Chinese designer that was invited as a jury member of the Frame Awards, the first and only global interior-design awards. Owing to her guidance and management, X+Living has become an excellent design team with international presence, and continues to convey its unique design ideas to the world.

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Park Zoo Hotel by Li Xiang This is no doubt a hotel based on the animal theme. However, designers didn’t simply create a series of adorable and graceful animal-shaped installations in order to attract great attention in the intensely competitive market. Infusing the space with the deep love for animals, designers transformed the hotel into an art exhibition, where customers are able to observe and feel the real situation facing the endangered animals in the present moment.

Guiyang Zhongshuge Bookstore by Li Xiang With the mountainous corridors and stalactite grotto-looking bookshelves, the bookstore introduces the readers into a world of Karst cave. In this way, the design team brings fantastic visual experience while at the same time spreads the local characteristics and culture to a larger crowds. Guiyang Zhongshuge has been a cultural feature and urban landmark in Guiyang city. In addition, it also bridges the gap of the cultural atmosphere in Guiyang.

Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore by Li Xiang Incorporating the splendid landscape of Chongqing in the bookstore, the designer has created a space where the visitors may feel like in the charming Chongqing while reading. There are five types of reading area in total, each of which is like a wonderland with distinctive features. Chongqing Zhongshuge bookstore has provided the consumers with a more fancy experience that they are not able to gain through the online shopping.

Loong Swim Club by Li Xiang The combination of service-oriented business with new business forms is a trend. The designer experimentally integrates the subsidiary functions of the project with main business, re-optimizes the main functions of parent-child sports training, and builds the project into a comprehensive space for swimming and sports education, integrating entertainment and leisure.

Home in Picture Apartment by Li Xiang The project is a living space created for a family of four with two kids. The dreamland atmosphere created by the home design comes not only from the fairy tale world created for children, but also from the futuristic sense and spiritual shock brought by the challenge on traditional home furnishings. Not being bound by rigid methods and patterns, the designer disintegrated traditional logic and presented a new interpretation of lifestyle.

Meland Kids Club by Li Xiang The entire project has completed the excellent expression of the theme parent-child indoor playground, showing a high degree of completeness and consistency in the streamline and space narrative. The subtle line design connects different functional areas and realizes the rationality of the visitors flows. The narrative of the space, in turn, connects different spaces through a complete plot and leads the consumers to experience the wonderful journey of parent-child interaction.

Zhuyeqing Green Tea Flagship Store by Li Xiang Drinking tea requires both a favourable environment and a good mood. The designer presents the motif of cloud and mountain in the way of freehand ink painting, and sprinkles a pair of beautiful Chinese landscape paintings in the enclosed limited space. Through customized function carriers, the designer has created a sensory experience for the consumers, which brings huge sensual impact.

YooYuumi Kids Restaurant by Li Xiang As a restaurant for both parents and children, the project needs to balance the different aethestic needs, usage needs of different people. The design idea of main dining area comes from the owner's profession, so the main dining area is like a ball room. In the washroom, with architectural design techniques being used, designer expresses traditional Chinese paper-cutting using western aesthetic lines. The parent-child restaurant, based on the new romance, blends in perfectly with eastern leisure pattern.

Fab Cinema by Li Xiang Believes that a cinema should pay attention to the connection between audience and the art of film instead of just providing entertainment and popcorn, so the designer moved the scenes and stories behind the films to the public view and the boring waiting area became a pre-order reaction container for the emotions. The awe of the creator was also projected into the design.

Unova Coworking Space by Li Xiang The project is a co-working space located in Shenzhen. The goal was to create a space that can accommodate multiple companies and give full play to the employees' individuality, and let co-working no longer be just a synonym for a low cost. The building where the project is located was originally an old-fashioned mall, but it has been eliminated by this area due to rapid commercial iteration. Designers hope that this building will reintegrate into the entire community and bring new vitality to it.

The Mixc Kunshan Kids Area by Li Xiang The project is located in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, an important birthplace of Kunqu Opera, which has the nickname of "the mother of Chinese Opera". With the vision of creating a multifunctional experience venue that integrates parenting, leisure, and education, the designer has blurred the physical boundary between the public area and the retail stores through coordinated facade design. It has realized the unity of the overall composition aesthetics and the integrity of the spatial narrative, causing more powerful field energy in the commercial space.

New Century Magic Hotel by Li Xiang The project is located in a resort park in Huzhou, China. It is committed to creating a "hotel-paradise" vacation mode. Based on this design concept, Magic Hotel was build. Combining the characteristics of consumers, Magic Hotel not only meets the needs of children, inspires the entertainment and playfulness of children, but also takes into account the needs of business people, and arouses the inner childlike innocence of adults.

Zhongshuge Bookshop by Li Xiang The project is located in Dujiangyan, Southwest of China. The city is famous for its unique culture and landscape due to its long history of water conservancy project. By drawing inspirations from the local landscape, designer moved the magnificent spirit of mountains and rivers into the bookstore, presenting readers with an elegant and powerful artistic landscape, and also expressing the awe to the nature.

Shenzhen Meland Club Kids Theme Park by Li Xiang Meland Club is an indoor parent-child playground located in Shenzhen, China. Drawing inspiration from the Four Seasons, the designer built a whimsical garden with abundant geometric figures as well as different materials that not only add rich texture but also impart vitality and energy. The design aims to pursue ultimate creation of space experience, atmosphere and impact, it also brings a surreal fairy tale beyond imagination to reality.

Shenzhen Zhongshuge Bookstore by Li Xiang Inspired by the rapid development and achievements of the project location, Shenzhen Zhongshuge is created to pay tribute to the countless pioneers in this immigrant city. The spiral bookshelf is used as a symbol to show the rapid development of history and arouse the thinking of visitors at the same time. The unconventional design approach to fuse commerce and art breaks the shackles of the monotonous attributes of a space bound to function, conveys the brand's values, brings a new and novel place gene to consumers' shopping experience.

Changsha Fundoland Entertainment Complex by Li Xiang Fundolandπ is designed to become the trendsetter for offline consumption scenes in the era of cultural and amusement. Behind the thematic theater style and realistic construction is a complex design planning system that integrates function and aesthetics, to ensure that the aesthetic proportion is not destroyed while achieving the maximum utilization of the area and the rational placement of ancillary functions. The space of over 4500 square meters integrated more than ten diverse entertainment zones to present a series of complete immersive experience.

Melandb club Indoor Playground by Li Xiang Meland Club combines five major themes of Insects, Oceans, Land, Sky, and Jungle, to create a Wondrous Museum of Nature, full of futuristic mechanical aesthetics. Architectural logic, art installations, mechanical technological aesthetics, philosophy, and popular science education are unprecedentedly integrated into an exquisite, complex creative scheme, constructing a comprehensive indoor parent-child theme park encompassing family amusement, art appreciation, aesthetic education, popular science, and creative enlightenment, a fantasy universe transcending yet tangible to reality.

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