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

 

Xiangkai Weifang Shangcheng Longyue

Weifang, located in the west of Shandong Peninsula, has a good reputation as a national eco-garden city. The urban construction follows the integration of architecture and nature, utilizing the planning concept of Let the city be in the forest, the forest be in the city, to create green ecological buildings. In this project of space design, the designer will continue this concept of urban planning at the same time into the design. Plant a forest under the shell of the building, shape a living space, and open up the expectation of future life in the interaction with nature.

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LuxLinea

Lux Linea is an ophthalmology clinic in Shibuya, Tokyo. The new addition to Total Eye Care clinics in the heart of the Japanese capital takes place on the ground floor of a mixed use building. Lux Linea design addresses two main issues. Glass reflections, and patients privacy. The clinic operates mostly during daytime, when the bright daylight reflects on the glass, obstructing visibility to the inside. The clinic employs a series of panel that plays with light lines through the glazed facades to connect with its surrounding urban environment.

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S House

It is a refined three-story concrete exposed house located in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture. Due to its proximity to neighboring apartment buildings and a busy road, the emphasis was placed on blocking sightlines and noise. The design incorporates a Japanese perspective, creating a blurred relationship between the interior and exterior, with gently rising exterior walls of varying heights serving as boundaries. As one progresses along the semi-outdoor approach formed by the gaps between overlapping exterior walls, the sounds of the outside world gradually fade away.

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Nubank

The design concept, based on the social network as a support for liquid modernity, reflects a conscious adaptation to the changing demands of the environment. In this sense, the design of this social network stands as a creative response to the tensions and paradoxes of the contemporary era, providing a meeting space that balances the need for constant adaptation with the pursuit of genuine and meaningful relationships. One of the challenges of the project was to ensure that each room, every corridor, and every corner, in general, became part of the conceptual narrative and was unique.

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Moonlight at night

This residential space is custom-designed exclusively for a married couple, eliminating the need to divide it into multiple rooms during the floor plan. Uses the contrast between black and gold to present the starry night sky. With full moon chandelier placed on the high celling, presents a concept of Chinese poetry of "the white jade plate in the night sky". Redefines the home experience with the concepts of transparency, intelligence, smart functionality, and versatility. Reflective materials makes the mysterious beauty of the moon can be seen everywhere in the room.

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Shan's Meal

It combined cloud shaped art installation, lines and light art. The design shows a sense of modernity of the interior space of restaurant. All of these elements of the restaurant give a new meaning of the times. The design modernizes the oriental traditional connotation. However, it retains the original understanding and feeling of the artistic conception of Chinese and the control of the space.

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