Design News Magazine

Design News Magazine

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

 

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.

Continue reading

 

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.

Continue reading

 

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.

Continue reading

 

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.

Continue reading

 

Muse Edition

Muse Edition is the destination for fashion insiders and global travelers to discover the world’s most current cult-status brands and up-and-coming designers. From luxury street-wear to the next wave of the runway and ready-to-wear, Muse Edition brings together specially curated pieces and edgy collections in a beautifully designed retail environment. The dynamic space bridges the building’s past and present with a distinctive waffle check ceiling, innovative lighting, and elevated displays all coming together to resemble a world-class museum.

Continue reading

 

Longhu Lake SK West Lake Stars

The design inspiration originates from colors of stars and the bright sky, and the post-modern design context is connected with star aesthetics, where the future meets with palettes of architect Luis Barragan. And gorgeous colors are borrowed to remove the monotony that mainstream indifferent styles present in current fields; the interlacing between lights, colors and arrays are adopted to create a poetic aesthetic space the post modern design owns for the future.

Continue reading