Design News Magazine

Design News Magazine

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

 

Urban Peony Pavilion

Urban Peony Pavilion is a club interior designed for banquets, meetings and receptions. The project covers 980 square meters. The layout uses small space blocks that recall a mountain jungle, arranging circulation and hiding functional areas within the blocks. Inside a structure of reinforced concrete, the design creates an urban idyllic scene. Literati life more than a thousand years ago and oriental opera culture guided the concept. The whole space can serve as a large stage, and hidden doors can be closed to reorganize scenes.

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Lihpao Plaza

Lihpao Plaza is a shopping mall interior design created in China. The interior covers 100,000 square meters across two levels of retail and themed dining areas. Six themed zones guide visitors through the mall, using zigzag alleys, stairs and red lanterns, light and shadow with window grilles, books combined with stairs, and botanical elements. Common materials were selected to meet the construction schedule and budget. Virtual reality and three-dimensional interactive projection form interactive spaces. The layout supports leisure, shopping and entertainment in one place.

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Art Gallery

Museum of Art is an exhibition stand designed for a manufacturer of luxury bathroom basins, tubs and faucets at a trade fair. Traditional walls are replaced by black matte laminate fins with gray marbling, angled sharply toward the center of the stand. The fins offer privacy and still allow glimpses of the interior. Inspired by dripping water, 250 strands of fine golden chain are suspended from floor to ceiling, forming translucent curtains around opposing corners of the centerpiece. Three showrooms present the products as individually lit art installations.

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Shine City

Shine City is a sales center in Chengdu, China, with an area of 1000 square meters. The interior design draws on the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty, a period associated with simple forms, plain colors and plain textures. Silk, used as a painting surface before paper, is the main design reference. Tawny wire glass screens are arranged in arrays to imitate the texture of silk. An installed art lamp recalls the cracked surface of Song Dynasty porcelain. Blank space and restrained detail create a calm and poetic atmosphere.

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Flow

Flow is a sales and exhibition center located in Chengdu, China. The interior covers 2000 square meters over two floors. The first floor holds the reception and display area. The second floor holds the model display area, the conversation area and the construction method display area. Water and light are the two themes of the design. A light cube installation hangs above water at the entrance and draws people inside. Curved walls made of glass fibre reinforced gypsum recall ripples and form a continuous, fluid space.

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Simbalion Art Studio

Simbalion Art Studio is an exhibition space in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, completed in July 2020. The interior presents the history of a stationery brand and its production process. A large interactive installation at the entrance allows visitors to make a colored pen with one click. Further areas include a graffiti zone where the walls can be painted, a darkroom for luminous pen drawing and two workshop classrooms. Pure white surfaces recall blank paper, and the high ceiling carries fine grids of fireproof metal shaped like dancing paper.

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