Design News Magazine

Design News Magazine

Design News Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Scent of a Golden Age

The design team began with the imagery of the "good old days" and took cues from the Showa era to build a flagship store that is worthy of its brand. This renovation of a sixty-year-old two-story shophouse into a modern coffee shop in the Chihkan District of Tainan. The steel frame and iron cladding of the old house are transformed into a place with a refined essence of time. The reinterpretation of an old Japanese house through new imagination. The traces of begone days and the smell of coffee together makes the space into a warm one.

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Skylight

This is a sales center in a community in Yiwu, China. The biggest problem the project designer faced is that the interior space is relatively deep. Also, there is no large glass curtain wall on the exterior of the building, which blocks the natural light and leads to poor indoor lighting. The design strategy is to employ skylights and introduces natural light in through the fifth facade of the building, thereby solving the problem of insufficient lighting in the interior space.

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The Glare

The design inspiration comes from the voyage of the universe, hoping to lead customers into an unknown space full of different experiences. The space defines the consumption process as a journey. The Glare not only provides goods but also conveys fashion information. Fashion shops carry the rich and diverse design inspiration behind the products. If we can add more activities to space, this will deepen the consumer experience and at the same time feel the value of fashion design. It is not just a retail store, but also has the functions of sales, education, and exhibition at the same time.

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The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel

Intended to express the new spirit of Kyoto, the highly original chapel is able to accommodate the increasingly diverse range of wedding styles sought by contemporary couples, including not only conventional church ceremonies but also Shinto and non-religious ceremonies. It utilized as much of the existing framework as possible, adding a wooden ceiling lattice interwoven with indirect lighting to evoke sunlight pouring through the branches of trees. The result is a sacred space imbued with traditional Japanese aesthetics and deep respect for its abundant natural surroundings.

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Family Maison

The project is located in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, a rapidly developing new area in the southeast of Shanghai. The designer used cutting-edge modern design ideas, extracted the city's technological sense attributes, and carried out a brand-new deconstruction and reorganization of the interior space, breaking the shackles of the exhibition space. Create a futuristic, artistic and experimental exhibition space.

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Zhongshuge

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.

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