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Design News Magazine

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

 

Shang He Gallery

Shang He Gallery is a multifunctional sales centre located in Kaifeng, Henan Province, China. The interior covers 1050 square metres on two floors. The ground floor holds the entrance, reception, display and negotiation areas. The second floor serves as an art space, with a hall used for exhibitions, meetings and lectures. A metal carving based on the painting Qingming Shanghe Tu, interpreted through local paper-cut skills and Chinese red, forms the central feature. Customized corrugated marble, stone, steel and art glass complete the interior.

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Fantasia Property Huizhou Villa

Fantasia Property Huizhou Villa is a villa show flat interior design. The layout links the indoor rooms with a front yard and a lawn, where tea can be enjoyed. A landscape pond stands beside the lawn. The pond has a translucent floor, which forms the glass roof of the basement below. The moving water gives a changing quality to the space. A spiral staircase and a glass cantilever entrance are seen from above. A miniature landscape marks each gate, and the foyer is connected to a transparent side hall for guests.

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Powerlong City

Nanjing Powerlong City is a sales center located in Nanjing, China, covering 800 square meters. The interior follows the theme of regaining childhood memories. Classic childhood game objects, such as gyroscopes, building blocks, stones, marbles, bubbles and paper airplanes, are transformed into landscape installations of different shapes. A spherical ceiling keeps the sales management area and the property model display area open and bright. Acrylic and resin sculptures are used throughout. A private VIP area and a children's playground with a slide and ocean balls complete the plan.

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Light and Shadow

Light and Shadow is a sales center interior design covering 760 square meters in Hubei, China. Large glass curtain walls bring the outside scenery into the space. The layout places the sand table display area on one side of the lobby and the negotiation and office areas on the other side. Marble floors with ink and gray lines extend the ink painting elements on the walls. Black, white and gray tones are combined with dark wood, stone, metal and crystal. A large chandelier above the sand table area uses the height of the 6.3 meter space layer.

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Wild

Wild is a restaurant and bar interior located in Nanjing, China. The original catering space was large and underused, so one area was separated to work as an independent whiskey bar. The restaurant and the bar are divided by a passage, yet remain visible to each other. The restaurant recalls camping in nature, with a large custom canopy made of Oxford cloth, terrazzo flooring and natural rock flakes on the walls. The bar imagines a new home a century from now, with a curved structure of wood and gypsum board around a luminous model of the earth. The total area is 235 square meters.

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Fluidity of Space

The Fluidity of Space is an interior design for a school teaching area in Taiwan. The teaching space is divided into six educational areas. Flexible spatial allocation forms the main axis of the design, and visual openness between the areas encourages student interaction. Glass sliding doors allow areas to be joined or separated. Linear lighting strips, three large bright yellow circular lines with built-in light sources, and suspended retractable power supplies serve the whole space. Movable whiteboards, teaching trolleys and portable chairs support varied lessons.

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