3D-scanned homage to UK chippies opens in China

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Source: Unknown Works

Anglo-Hong Kong practice plays with notions of copying

Unknown Works, a London- and Hong Kong-based collective of young architects and designers, has completed a fish & chip shop in one of China’s largest cities based on 3D scanning of UK chippies.

The practice said it was playing with China’s reputation for flawless reproductions that has sometimes attracted notoriety.

The shop in Chengdu is a branch of Scott’s fish & chip shop in York which made international headlines when David Cameron and Xi Jinping popped in back in 2015.

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