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Design News Magazine

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

 

Zhuhai Jiuzhou Poly Tianhe Jinghu

Zhuhai Jiuzhou Tianhe Jinghu is a villa interior design of 645 square meters in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. Classic blue is the theme color, combined with plain wood and textured stone for a calm and vibrant atmosphere. The concept refers to the flight studies of Leonardo da Vinci. The living room follows an LDK layout with wide French windows, a metal propeller ceiling fan, a clock with an aircraft pattern and blue aircraft back chairs. Materials include smooth granite, nubuck leather, multi-layer solid wood flooring and ashlar brick.

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Taicang Readzone

Taicang Readzone is a bookstore located inside a department store in Taicang, China. The bookstore covers 368 square meters and is arranged in the form of a circular theater. Tall book walls and multi-directional door frames recall concentrated urban street scenes and invite readers to explore. Circular movement lines connect with radial paths to form separate book groups and varied seating areas. A stainless steel ceiling reduces the heavy feeling of the large structure. Flexible shelves, tables and seats support individual reading, parent-child reading and meetings.

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Elemental Lounge

Elemental Lounge is an interior design for a living room and bar area of 60 square meters. The space is divided graphically into black and white to represent day and night during the equinox, when both last exactly 12 hours. Harmony is achieved through contrasting textures and materials, including wood, iron, fabrics, pottery, fur and precious stones. Furniture, lamps, rugs and fittings were custom made by Peruvian artisans. A hanging lamp of transparent and smoky quartz holds an LED light, and the coffee table contains a large amethyst geode.

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Vanke Violet

Vanke Violet is a sales center for a residential development in Changchun, China, with a total area of 825 square meters. The interior follows a modern Chinese style and draws on traditional garden techniques. Simplified overlapping and folding beams recall the image of bustling old villages. The reception area uses a mortise and tenon structure, which keeps the space open and integrated. Solid wooden tables and chairs and flower arrangements create a comfortable cultural creation area. The children's area includes a parent and child book bar, a craft zone and an aquarium.

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CIFI Nansha Yaoyue Bay

CIFI Nansha Yaoyue Bay is a sales center located on the international finance island in Nansha District, Guangzhou, China. Water is the central theme of the interior. Decorations at the entrance resemble ripples spreading across water. The layered ceiling recalls the sea and the beach, and an irregular bench recalls sea spray. Curved forms are used throughout to soften the enclosed space. Materials include plated metal, resin, marble, leather and acrylic fiber carpet. The design turns local culture and coastal scenery into interior art that is both decorative and practical.

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I Do Emergent Arts

The I Do artist store in Wuhan, China blends uniquely spatial and sculptural elements to create a highly expressive, enticing and inspiring user experience. At the center of the space, and protruding through the facade, a massive 9m steel sculpture rises from the first floor space and emerges on the second floor. Symbolically, the one to one scale elephant and figures represent the wisdom, strength and unity as a projection of the relationships which can be embodied by those visitors to the retail space.

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