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

 

Silk Clubhouse

The main background for the welcome reception in the lobby is a custom lotus-themed artwork, reflecting the integrity and grace of Wuzhen people. The guest rest area is decorated with black brocade, and the center of the lobby, created with an end view, echoes the artistic lanterns on the top, thus enhancing the sense of ceremony. The lobby lounge is separated by a yard, forming a three in one multi level layout on the vertical axis, viewed from the lobby through the glass doors and windows of Chinese lattice, with style continuing the design technique of the lobby.

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Audemars Piguet

At Audemars Piguet visitors are immersed in the cultural universe of the Swiss watch manufacture, Haute Horlogerie. The structurally very sophisticated glass spiral by BIG Architects extends the historic house where Audemars Piguet was founded in 1875. The museum's scenography offers visitors a paced composition with crescendos, climaxes and contemplative moments. Sculptures, automata and kinetic installations rhythm the exhibition, which is visually connected to the surrounding landscape. Time becomes tangible in space.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Tavex's new corporate family home is a two-purpose space: a functional, convenient office environment during the day and a party venue in the evenings. The goal was making it accessible and welcoming for each employee regardless of where they usually work, a veritable heaven for everyone; creating the right environment for social interaction, one that encourages bonding and communication; creating a workspace that constantly feeds creativity.

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Poly Conghua

Litchi is the cultural and ecological feature of Conghua where the project is located. Taking litchi as the starting point, the designer combines modeling with humanities to display and display the overall space furnishings, hoping that the audience can feel the combination of traditional humanistic characteristics and modern decoration after entering them. The large-scale litchi art installation improves the atmosphere and memory points, elegant color matching, bookshelves are covered with walls, adding humanistic atmosphere and texture.

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National Gallery Athens

In the 1960's modern building of the National Gallery in Athens, the exhibition rooms are designed like a promenade in open space. The interior is designed as a sequence of wooden lined transitional areas for information, and of white exhibition rooms with specially designed suspended ceilings for each exhibition function. Controlling the directions of gaze, the depth of view in the rooms and towards the city, the general lighting in relevance with the exterior light, and subduing the materials and the technical details to highlight the works of art, the space gives an affect of free choice.

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Perception

This small warm wooden feel cafe located on the corner of crossroad within a quiet neighborhood. The centralized open-preparation zone makes a clean and extensive experience of barista's performance to visitors everywhere that bar seat or table seat in a cafe. The ceiling object called "Shading tree" starts from the backside of the preparation zone, and it covers the customer zone to makes the entire atmosphere of this cafe. It gives an unusual spatial effect to visitors and also become a medium for people who want to be lost in thought with flavorous coffee.

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