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Design News Magazine

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

 

LHM kindergarten

LHM Kindergarten is an interior design for a nursery school in Tokyo, Japan. The 230 square meter space holds three rooms, two Lake rooms and a Hill and Mountain room. Stainless steel mirrors cover the ceiling of the Lake rooms and reflect the changing natural light and the children at play. A green hill can be used as seating for a concert, a stage for a play or a stand for an exhibition. Colored furniture can be climbed, used as chairs or entered like a cave or a cabin. Color gradations on the walls follow tones drawn from nature.

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Both Boutique & Music

Both Boutique and Music is a retail interior project in Red Town, a former ironworks in Shanghai that is now a sculpture art district. The scheme covers a boutique of 370 square meters and a music store of 170 square meters set over two levels. The design is built on the idea of contrast between Western and Eastern, old and new, and static and dynamic. The boutique is treated as a bridge that brings goods from around the world, while the music store is arranged around the act of focusing. The surrounding art park setting is retained to encourage exchange among local residents.

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DREAM DAIRY FARM RESTAURANT

The following interior design was realized for a restaurant built on a farm surrounded by a lush forest. The three dimensional white lattice nesting above the beams of the existing wooden structure forms the canopy of a forest that brings together the old and the contemporary by suggesting the superimposition of time and space. By superimposing time and space and bridging the old and the new, the repeated entwinement of lattice and light offers a mystic illumination and the spatial experience of penetrating into a deep forest.

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Wuhan Pixel Box Cinema

“Pixel” is the basic element of images, designer explores relationship of movement and pixel to become the theme of this design. “Pixel” is applied in different areas of the cinema. The box office grand hall houses a tremendous curved envelop formed by over 6000 pieces of stainless steel panels. The feature display wall is decorated with huge amount of square strips protruding from the wall is presenting the glamorous name of cinema. Inside this cinema, everyone would enjoy the great atmosphere of digital world generated by the cohesion of all “Pixel” elements.

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FoodSmith

FoodSmith is a firewood oven and grill restaurant located in Amman, Jordan. The interior covers 150 square metres on the ground floor, while the kitchen and service areas occupy 70 square metres upstairs. The design recalls an old blacksmith workshop and is built almost entirely from reclaimed and recycled materials, including lumber, copper piping and cement brick tiles. Every plank, pipe and brick was planned through detailed construction drawings. The result appears informal, yet each element is carefully arranged.

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Chongqing Mountain and City Sales Office

“Mountain” is the main theme of this sales office, which is inspired by the geographical background of Chongqing. The pattern of grey marbles on the floor is forming in triangular shape; and there are lots of odd and sharp angles and corners on the feature walls and the irregular shaped reception counters, to demonstrate the concept of “mountain”. In addition, the stairs connecting the floors are designed to be a passage through the cave. Meanwhile, LED lightings are hanged from the ceiling, imitating raining scene in valley and presenting natural feeling, to soften the whole impression.

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