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Yixian County was founded in the 26th year of Qin Shihuang (221 years ago). It is one of the birthplaces of Anhui Culture. As a world cultural heritage site, Huizhou culture and Huizhou merchants have created ancient villages with typical local traditional characteristics. The natural scenery of the ancient village, which seems to have emerged from the Chinese ink painting, has attracted countless painters, photographers and tourists to come for their vacation.
Continue readingNansha district is the only coastal area of Guangzhou, there had unique Cantonese water town scenery and fishing village culture, but with the development of the city, the scene has gradually disappeared. The designer extracted the culture from the fishing village, using the simple and natural design philosophy to recreate the old scene of the water town, integrated Chinese ink painting, silk and lantern into the space for express Chinese culture and advocate a simple, elegant and pure lifestyle.
Continue readingDecidedly modern, this office takes on a dynamic shape that speaks suaveness and sophistication, while achieving the main objective of functions for privacy and teamwork environment in most sustainable way. Shades of blue with gradient transition at reception brings out corporate identity, different flooring and finishes are used to achieve desirable zone segregation. Taking the advantage of natural daylight along perimeter window, island layout arrangement provides essential access to resources around while creating bright and airy atmosphere.
Continue readingSwiss architecture studio Evolution Design has designed the new Zurich-based headquarters of Barry Callebaut, the global manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products. Along with interiors that activate senses through a myriad of textures, materials and colors, the new head office also incorporates a chocolate academy and three large employee hubs that are linked with internal staircases. The offices feature oxygen generating plants and comply with Swiss sustainability standards.
Continue reading22 degrees north latitude location make it four spring-like, sunny, gulf islands at the same time also has advantaged resources, these are for the project can't copy the value of traditional logic does not apply to the space, a person of extraordinary powers curtilage design that the adornment of heavy and complicated, uniform color and luxurious materials is not a utopia needed vacation lifestyle. Therefore, the designer abandoned the conventional design ideas, and followed the concept of "Lees is more" to present a more private space.
Continue readingThe naming of the restaurant Ribbon symbolizes a festive atmosphere on special days and holidays. With use of patterns, lines, irregular cuts, and rhythmic combination, the designer creates a sense of ceremony with a great amount of natural lighting that expands the visual perception with consistency. The precise yet fluid interior lighting design adds elegance to the ambience in shades of brown and gray. Entering the restaurant, one can immediately sense that the designer reinterprets and repackages the Korean cuisine with a modern technique and semi-industrial style.
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