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

 

SUIGETSU JAPANESE RESTAURANT

1. They combined both ChongQing and Japanese culture in this restaurant. Some of the features were coming from ChongQing's traditional culture. While Japanese culture also play an important role in it. 2. You can feel the varies changes of ChongQing's landscape by all the hight differences of the floor. 3. The plan arrangements combined Chinese Fengshui culture. 4. This restaurant can not be defined as a Japanese restaurant, nor a Chongqing restaurant. It absorbed the similar features of these two place.

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Sberbank

The complexity of this project was to design an agile workplace of enormous size within a very limited time frame and to keep the physical and emotional needs of office users always at the heart of the design. With the new office design, Sberbank has set the first steps towards modernising their workplace concept. The new office design enables staff to perform their tasks in the most suitable work environment and establishes a brand new architectural identity for the leading financial institution in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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Glass House

The Glass House is totally built with Reflective Laminated Glass in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is a house with a short time of building; low cost; with the possibility of mobility and with the precepts of sustainability. This project provides architecture with the principles of living small; of full integration with nature; of sustainability and of mobility. The interior architecture has materials such as wood, stones, textures trying to bring warmth to the Glass House. Those materials used were certified wood and synthetic materials following the concept of sustainability.

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Back to glory

To renovate the 40-year-old old apartment, we break the limit of a traditional Asian apartment through a gigantic skylight in two stories and multi-axial spatial development. The design solves the problems of insufficient lighting, feeling of narrow space in a low floor apartment and humidity caused by rainy climate. Externally, we build magnificently mansion-like appearance for the apartment and comprehensively establish open, penetrating, and bright atmosphere in life.

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Moonlit Garden Wuxi

Wuxi place cultural materials of industry such as cloth, iron,bamboo, also Taihu Lake stone. They are tried to make full use of the characteristics of each piece of land,and bring value of an aesthetic sense of Japanese. Also plan to connecting each elements, then it is creating a architectural bond, to be a memorable interactive exhibit space for user. By this They are show a concept of Moonlit and Garden in modern Chinese style.it has also become a facility name.

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Pocket House

The project is a house inside a naval container with the use of the solar energy; dry construction generating less waste; thermo-acoustic treatment to do not use air conditioner; coatings and furniture made with recyclable materials. All of them based at the sustainability principles. The greatest challenge of this project was the respect with the small space! The total domain of the spatial proportions was crucial to meet the client's program: a bedroom; a bathroom; living with a dining room and a kitchen! All the furniture was carefully studied and designed to meet this concept!

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