Design News Magazine

Design News Magazine

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

 

Moritomi

The relocation of Moritomi, a restaurant offering Japanese cuisine, next to the world heritage Himeji Castle explores the relationships between materiality, shape and traditional architectonics interpretation. The new space tries to reproduce the castle stone fortifications pattern in various materials including rough and polished stones, black oxide coated steel, and tatami mats. A floor made in small resin coated gravels represents the castle moat. Two colors, white and black, flows like water from outside, and crossing the wooden lattice decorated entrance door, to the reception hall.

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Jiao Tang

The project is a hotpot restaurant, located in Chengdu, China. The design inspiration originates from the harmonious co-existence between human and nature on Neptune. The restaurant is organized with seven design themes to illustrate stories on Neptune. The concepts of film and television, art, science and technology, decorative original design of furniture, lamps, tableware, etc., provide dramatic immersive experience to visitors. Material collocation and color contrasting create space atmosphere. Mechanical installation art is applied to enhance space interaction and consumer experience.

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Elizabeth's Tree House

A demonstration of architecture’s role in the healing process, Elizabeth’s Tree House is a new dining pavilion for therapeutic camp in Kildare. Serving children recovering from serious illnesses the space forms a timber oasis in the middle of an oak forest. A dynamic yet functional timber diagrid system includes an expressive roof, extensive glazing, and a colorful larch cladding, creating an interior dining space that forms a dialogue with the surrounding lake and forest. Deep connection with nature at all levels promotes user comfort, relaxation, healing, and enchantment.

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Boundless Horizon

The overall conception of the project is based on the local geographical and cultural factors of Qingdao. With "ocean", a very representative element extracted from a time-honored culture, as the design inspiration, and with "water and sky" as the theme, designers condense the method of Oriental aesthetics and the philosophy and aesthetic consciousness of the universe and nature and integrate the artistic conception of modern Oriental aesthetics into the soft decorative design through abstract art, creating a scene of urban landscape experience that the resident lives in prosperity.

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Fluid and Form

The designer with an art background has found to adopt many oriental landscape painting composition principles and techniques, much like how the design team aimed at constructing an infinite interior evoking the natural grandeur and ambiance in Chinese landscape paintings, in pursuit of a strong artistic approach in re-compose natural landscape and warm colors as motifs to create with a strong visual tension, as well as elegance and comfort.

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Gsia Office

The front desk abandons too many complicated decorations, and the background wall uses simple and intuitive grid three-dimensional modeling to create a rich sense of end view hierarchy. The semi-closed structure of the reception area not only takes into account the openness of the space, but also considers the sense of privacy and formality that business negotiation should have. The style of the office area is fashionable but not conspicuous. The multi-functional area follows the functional requirements and realizes the integrated layout of intensive and flowing.

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