Design News Magazine

Design News Magazine

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

 

Salmet Bistro

This project located in a rural area of Taiwan is a case of a new commercial bistro in an old house. The owner is also the chef who returned from Italy and wanted to provide a hometown food with international taste. Therefore, the design team kept the red brick and stone elements of the old house and reorganized them in a modern presentation. By combining the old and the new, the design of this small yet international bistro interacts with the street and is full of emotion and local flavor.

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Chu Yan

The designers intend to create a space where diners can chat and dine happily. A scene-based method is used to complete the design of Chu Yan Restaurant. The overall design is connected by the image of the unfolded scroll on the ceiling of the corridor, which is a very typical Chinese impression. It is not only a restaurant but also a spiritual space, which brings together the publicity, education, and multiple functions of Chinese catering culture.

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Apple Bear Park

Apple Bear Park, an early education center for preschoolers, aims at arousing children's learning interest. The design is soft and comfortable without any artificial limits, thus providing an unconstrained environment for children to learn and play as well as cultivating their learning ability from a young age. Apple Bear Park hopes to establish a warm and positive learning environment for preschoolers and develop plenty of cognitive interests.

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Renmin Road 1979

This case is mainly around the clues of Time, Emotion and City, interpreting the inheritance from the old Renmin Road and the new urban development. Through the maintenance and reshapeing of the existing buildings and spaces, inward construction is adopted for the development. The urban memory, cultural symbols and their underlying logics are retained with modern design techniques, to create an interdependent community of the old and the new, to explore the completion and cooperation between reconstruction and preservation, and to motivate people for critical thinking about things.

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QYF

The design team did image design for Qyf, a multi-brand boutique with a 20 year history. The store brings about new consumption patterns and lifestyle trends for local consumers. With the modernist aesthetic approach, this project injects new energy into the brand. The moving lines and functions, all designed based on the site conditions, meet the business logic. The design is a comprehensive solution to the brand Qyf. The design team believes that brand update echoes the new age today because it means the exploration for breakthroughs and possibilities in every sense.

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The Satori Harbor

Chinese e-commerce company Vipshop has included in its headquarters a library turned into a sanctuary that embodies the spirit of contemplation. Wutopia Lab designed a Satori Harbor represents an abstract harbor city where employees can wander through literature and experience satori; a state of transcendental being in the practice of Taoism, as the morning light shining across the entire earth.

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