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Design News Magazine

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

 

Dry Salon

Dry Salon is a cafe interior created in a narrow and long house more than forty years old. The renovation reorganizes the basic construction to improve the quality of the space. A transparent skylight replaces the former rain shade and brings daylight into the dark interior. Large glass windows at the entrance connect the indoor and outdoor areas. A grille on the exterior conceals the air conditioning unit and allows easy maintenance. Simple stone and wood blocks can be used as tables or seats, so visitors define the arrangement themselves.

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Xi’an Legend Chanba Willow Shores

The design combine the northeast folk with the gentleness and grace in order to let life tolerant. The smart design and compact layout extend the interior architecture. The designer uses simple and international deisgn skills with pure elements and plain materials, which make the space natural, leisurely and unique. The design is a sales center with 600 square meters, it aims to design a modern oriental vocation sales center, which make the resident’s heart quiet and discard away the outside noisy. Keep slow and enjoy the beauty life.

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Huahao Group Jinyu

Huahao Group Jinyu is a sales center located in Changsha, China, covering about 1218 square meters. The interior combines straight lines and curves, and mixes rectangular and cylindrical forms. Black, white and red are the main colors, and red elements accentuate the depth of the space. Metal lines add a sense of restraint, and a winding stair with a geometric form leads to the second floor. Environment-friendly art paints are used to lower the consumption of natural resources. The entrance follows the pattern of an art gallery and holds a sculpture inspired by books.

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Meland

The entire project has completed the excellent expression of the theme parent-child indoor playground, showing a high degree of completeness and consistency in the streamline and space narrative. The subtle line design connects different functional areas and realizes the rationality of the visitors flows. The narrative of the space, in turn, connects different spaces through a complete plot and leads the consumers to experience the wonderful journey of parent-child interaction.

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ERC Cafe

ERC Cafe is a cafe interior design covering 218 square meters over two levels. The layout includes a front entrance, a counter, a kitchen, and seating areas with sofas, bar seats, a community table and standard coffee tables. Red brick, metal work, grinding stone, glass, timber and mineral paint give the space a loft character. Fabric is cut into segments and hung from the ceiling in arch shapes, which soften the hard surfaces and diffuse light and air. The double height entrance and the full height windows open the interior to the street and recall a greenhouse.

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Qing Zhu Lake

QingZhu Lake is a sales center in ChangSha that also serves as a small library. The interior covers 1200 square meters and is finished with marble, glass and wood flooring. Surfaces are shaped to recall the pages of an open book. The quiet setting invites visitors to read and to return to printed books, as many young readers now prefer electronic ones. The intent is to give the building value beyond its basic sales function. The calm reading atmosphere is meant to encourage reflection and to leave a lasting memory.

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