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Design News Magazine

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

 

Kuromon Ichiban

This Japanese restaurant, mainly opening in night hours, specializes in the yakitori cuisine. Its design is a breakaway from the traditional Japanese style, giving full play to the ambience and courtyard-style installations to present the quintessential Japanese culinary culture which is embodied in the space. The restaurant has its eastern entrance connect to the mall and the western face the street.

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Aranya

Located at wetland park of aranya D3 Block, Homes Reception Center is an individual building designed for supporting community functions of aranya. This building is currently landmarks of aranya. There are five floors inside the building, collecting multi-functions in one body such as, tourist consulting, accommodation reception, diverting people flow, staff office and more. This scheme is the living room of aranya community, which is also one of the main transition space for connecting and diverting between the community and outside.

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The Grand Canal

Yangzhou is an ancient city full of poetry. The project is located on the tributary of the Yangzhou section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, where the history and culture of Yangzhou come together. The elegance of Yangzhou is infused into the details of the project. Through color, home furnishing and special works of art, an art space that is most in line with the local temperament is constructed. The combination of ancient and modern Oriental aesthetics, which not only carries the history but also accepts the modern elegant taste, makes this project a success.

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Yamaki Zushi

Hoped to bring the sense of nature to customers and therefore applied Karesenzui, rock-imitated materials, and Baizou volcano ashes to construct landscape in many ways. The fish pond, artistic cement floorings symbolize the imagery of water. The wooden materials of cypress, teak, unpainted wood, and rust are used on walls to add layers into the space. By applying pure and simple materials, and particular layering design methods, the dining environment has successfully recreated the spirit of Japanese cuisine: Pursue perfection and extreme requirements.

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Longwan

Of course, straight lines and curves are not blunt cuttings, nor are they absolute configurations based on functional areas, but more like finding the best balance of the unity of opposites. There are curves in a straight line, and there may be a straight line in the curve. The collocation has its own emphasis and each other's supporting role. This is the best channel for the interconnection of spatial dimensions.

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Kama-Asa Shop

The rebar is a stick-shaped rolled steel material formed from irregular nubs called ribs and joints that are used as a building construction material. As Kama-Asa Shop's policy is set on belief that good tools are made for good reason, it delivers to the customers excellent skills of craftsmen, which make kitchen utensils. Therefore, the most appropriate for the shop's space was to show architectural skills of craftsmen. The rebar that is usually hidden in the wall became the main design.

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