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

 

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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Dream River Bay

The project is located in Guiyang Qingzhen city that has high reputation of "Xihu Lake City". Seamlessly combined urban and natural landscape, while embedding in mountain and wetland. J and A put the unique natural landscape integrate into interior design. It expresses the essence of modern decorate design by the minimalism approach, and create a land of silence which is full of modern artistic.

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Evd

EVD office is conceived based on two design threads. The designers created a U-shaped area that combines with one long side and the 5 large windows, allowing natural light to filter in and diffuse freely. The spatial form is shaped based on classical languages, designers utilized classical architectural elements with modern approaches, to add a sense of eternity to the space. Besides, sphere, the most beautiful solid figure is brought in, which enhances the spatial aesthetic. The design starts from solving with spatial limitations caused by pipes for fire protection and air conditioners.

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Da Ya Li

The core visual focus of the space is the red tree house. This super-symbol image can form a memory point for a brand, and create better spreading effect, so that the local has a new understanding of Beijing cuisine. The red color is a symbol of solemn Chinese royal architecture, and it is also the typical sign of peppery taste in Sichuan cuisine. This color is presented in this project with a visually striking image, which evokes taste memory and recalls national culture at the same time.

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