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Designer / Brand: YHDQ Design Work: Sales Center for Real Estate Classification: Interior Date: Sunday, 1 September 2024

Vanke Yantai Chang An

Vanke Yantai Chang An is a sales center for real estate located in Yantai city, Laishan district. The interior covers 2368 square meters and includes a spacious lobby with a high ceiling. The design theme draws on the elite lifestyle described in the novel A la recherche du temps perdu and in the film The Great Gatsby. Black and white tones are combined with a contemporary chandelier to give the space an elegant character. Art installations, such as a camera statue, match the chosen theme and the furniture settings.

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Designer / Brand: Simon Zeng & Vincent Zhang Work: Resort Hotel Classification: Interior Date: Saturday, 31 August 2024

JoeLalli

China Moganshan Joe Lalli is a resort hotel interior located in Moganshan, Zhejiang, China. The design draws on the nearby mountains, lakes, waterfalls, tea farms and rain clouds. Four interlocking structures hold the main facilities, among them a lobby, a tea lounge, a book lounge, a restaurant, a bar, a ballroom, meeting rooms and 42 guest rooms. Local materials such as bamboo and hardwood are used. The bamboo cloud staircase is made of glass reinforced gypsum and hand painted with a bamboo pattern. Green roofs and solar panels support the sustainable character.

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Designer / Brand: Benny Ren Work: Headquarters Classification: Interior Date: Friday, 30 August 2024

OneSmart International Education

OneSmart International Education is the headquarters interior of a Chinese education brand in Putuo District, Shanghai. The interior occupies an eleven floor building from the last century and covers 12000 square meters. The space supports daily office work, meetings and public education activities. Curved installations made of spliced planks run through the building and reduce the visual weight of the structural columns in the narrow entrance area. Blue and white tones are combined with warm wood colors. A spiral staircase links the first and second floor reception areas.

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Designer / Brand: Zeajoy Cultural Communication Co., Ltd Work: Sales Office Classification: Interior Date: Thursday, 29 August 2024

Jinlin Mansion

Jinlin Mansion is a sales office interior located in Jiaxing, China, covering a total of 1965 square meters. The design applies traditional Oriental ideas through a simple and modern language. Rational lines, low saturated light colors and rough wall surfaces with a historical texture shape each area. A large hanging installation forms the visual focus of the sand table display area, and hollow skylights bring changing daylight inside. A spiral staircase connects the levels. The children's area and the book bar are arranged for practical daily use.

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Designer / Brand: Song Han Work: Exploration Hall Classification: Interior Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Tea Culture

Tea Culture is a small tea culture experience hall designed as a calm setting for tasting tea. Several horizontal and vertical spaces are joined into one continuous area where visitors can walk freely, meet one another or pause and look back. The layout was inspired by folded paper, and the resulting shifts of perspective give the interior both classical quietness and modern vitality. Slender grids replace the surface texture of paper. Each space is reduced to a simple function, so visitors can relax before the tea is served.

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Designer / Brand: Kris Lin Work: Lobby Classification: Interior Date: Tuesday, 27 August 2024

Glass Core

Glass Core is a reception lobby designed for a community building in Jiaxing, China. The lobby is reached by an elevator that rises through an atrium of 18 meters in height. The elevator shaft is built with a steel structure that supports glass panels combined with LED lights, so the volume glows and marks the entrance of the building. The translucent glass is inlaid with metal, giving a texture similar to white jade with a gold rim. A rectangular staircase is placed around the elevator, so visitors can move by stairs or by elevator. The total area is 1000 square meters.

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