‘Toby’s home’ is a cafe and flagship store for a toy product-line named ‘Toby’ and is located in a large commercial compound in Beijing. We were looking at the project the same way as a seedling might see our natural environment and translated trees into large arches, which bundle together and define different areas within the space.

Penda is a fresh and motivated team of international creatives based in Beijing and Vienna. In 2013, Chris Precht and Dayong Sun founded Penda in the belief that architecture can serve as a bridge connecting nature, culture and people to a higher standard of living. By drawing different perspectives from western and eastern history, Penda seeks the fundamentals in architecture and interprets them, integrating them into one cross-cultural design-language. Therefore, we are interested in the questions of how life has evolved throughout history, what has influenced this evolution, and how architecture can add our quality of life in the future. We love what we do, and are truly passionate about architecture & design, developing every project with uttermost dedication.