Design News Magazine

Akitoshi Imafuku

Night Club

Friday, 10 March 2023

Baia

Baia came into existence in Shibuya the center of Tokyo metropolitan as a cave suddenly appeared in the city. It consists of 5 floors; a basement, 3 stories, and a rooftop terrace, and the design concept of the entire floor is a cave within the city. The designers believed only a minimal design could visualize the fascinating and exotic atmosphere of a cave, and kept it minimal using emerald green lighting and mortar which they think suited for this modern cave. The lighting plan of fascinating emerald green lights added glamor to the space and helped visualize the design concept.

Takeshi Yoshida

Exhibition Booth

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Moonshot Cafe

This design is for the Japan Pavilion at the CES 2023, one of the largest technology conventions in the glove. It is inspired from simplicity and minimization, the fundamental concept of Zen, which Japan has always been with since ancient times. It’s rare to have a cafe, rather than having a normal exhibition booth in a convention. The space tries to become an oasis where the interaction begins. It also focuses on transparency and spaciousness since the ceiling of the venue is low. In addition, it has lots of green, showing the eco-friendship, reducing waste, and creating a cozy atmosphere.

Alex Chiang

Office

Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Mas Corporate Headquarters

Spatial development perpetuates the Mas main tone of black, white, and gray, intersecting with the corporate color orange. Simple geometric lines as design language present the open dynamic place spirit. Striving for accurate control at every sense of scale, not only builds an open working environment, which is good for staff communication and inspires them more creative thinking and inspiration but also many flow freedom degrees are reserved in spatial planning.

Wei Ting Lin

Detached Villa

Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Rose Garden

The project is located on one side of Fuchun River, which is is typical Hui Style architecture. Atrium and mezzanines design are adopted to cope with the hot-humid climate. The designer removed part of the floor slabs around the staircase to form an atrium, then adopted large windows, so the light can get to the underground floors.The banquet room in basement has a mirrored ceiling with water wave patterns on it, echoing the water-themed statues around the staircase.

KJJH DESIGN

Sales Office

Monday, 6 March 2023

The Memory of Poetry

The design reflects the connotation of culture and works with national culture has great development potential. The project is located in Wuyi New District, Nanping City. The designer combines contemporary oriental art with the ladder-sequence shape of Wuyi tea mountains and Hakka enclosed dwellings, refines art installation elements, and uses modern skills, materials, and technology to uncover the city heritage. As to this modern sales office nourished by humanities and nature, designers prefer to define it as an "urban art museum".

Alvan Suen

Restaurant and Gallery

Sunday, 5 March 2023

Monmono Blue

The implication of blue in a realistic vintage design with a surreal monochrome environment showing more design details in a mysterious, calm and elegant ambiance, emphasize the playfulness of the theme. Scenes like a casino in the US, a hotel in the UK, retail in France and a piazza in Rome turned the entire shop into a movie scene. By combining various realistic worldwide vintage scenes and architecture into the abstract world of blue, taking the advantage of a monochrome style to find harmony between different eras and styles, creating a unique art piece in the city.