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

 

Guangming

The project is located in Guangming District, Shenzhen. With a total construction area of 140,000 square meters, it is a comprehensive venue integrating performing arts center, art gallery, library and urban planning hall. The design theme of the project is city and nature. Cities are not only people and buildings, but also animals, plants, and casual moments, which together constitute a colorful world. The design concept of the project is the eye of culture, the song of art.

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Vanke City Growth Hall

In the eastern suburb memory in chengdu, china, Mdo has transformed an old state-run hongguang electronic tube factory into a vivid "vanke city growth hall". The original building founded in 1958, held the Hongguang electronic tube factory, which produced once oscilloscopes and kinescopes for the military. As a continuity of the past, the oscilloscope became the design's starting point, and the "burst of energy" was extracted as the element throughout the project. This "explosion of energy" was seen as the spatial concept of the "big bang of knowledge".

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Joy Hill

In the project of Vanke Joy Hill, Mdo wants to create a ceremonial community lounge that can trigger emotional resonance. This work is inspired by Dongguan's urban symbols. The hanging installation is inspired by the undulating silhouette of the roof of the Wok Ear House. Using bamboo as raw material. Based on the local intangible cultural heritage, Knitting Technique of Dongguan's Straw, the bamboo strips are rearranged, combined, and intertwined to form a rhythmic movement from the simple to the complex and manifest a uniquely artistic atmosphere in the space.

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Qingdao Line 1

The design advocates strengthening the overall color impression of Line 1, boldly using colorful colors, poetic expressions and abstract artistic techniques to abstract the century-old Qingdao architecture, memory of industrial development, the four seasons of the city, waves, reefs, flowers and other elements. The presentation will sublimate and interpret the theme of the colorful Qingdao again, integrate the design of color and space, and elevate it to a higher artistic level, so that passengers can enjoy public art as the cultural welfare of citizens.

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Golden Jade Headquarters

The office is located in the central of modern city but surrounded by the natural green. Elements such as sunshine, greenery and stream were regarded as inspiration. Based on the concept of sharing, the idea of design was strung together with full-openness, privacy, and anti-interference. White terrazzo floor was applied as a drawing paper to carry the lives and designs, and black mirror imitated the water surface to open up the definition of the visual space. The stairs were decorated as floating islands and contour lines, inviting the visitors to reach each floor and space.

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Borromei Loft

The challenge of this project was to be able to re-propose the succession of secret spaces typical of Milan's historic canter, going beyond the ancient building structure through a contemporary design that would guarantee a new atmosphere. Being able to ensure adequate natural lighting for all spaces was only possible by creating wings and new openings that would allow the light filters through the large skylight in the living area to reach the most private spaces.

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