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Designer / Brand: Gustaf Kan Work: Show Room Classification: Interior Date: Thursday, 4 April 2024

BFC Super Experience Center

BFC Super Experience Center is a sales showroom and retail interior in Wuhan, China. The space covers 4,380 square meters across three floors. An atrium theater with open volumes and connecting galleries forms the core of the layout. Surfaces are built through folding and fragmentation, using glass, mirrors, mirror finish metal plates, metal mesh and LED screens. Digital media, interactive installations and lighting guide visitors along the circulation route. The interior presents lifestyle content first and real estate sales second.

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Designer / Brand: Liu Li Work: Investment Promotion Center Classification: Interior Date: Wednesday, 3 April 2024

Longfor Blue Engine Industrial Park

Longfor Blue Engine Industrial Park is an investment promotion center located in a former warehouse in Zhuanqiao, Shanghai. The interior keeps the atmosphere of the old factory area and preserves the memory of the original city. Eight boxes with different textures are placed inside the warehouse, and each box is given a separate function. The boxes define the circulation route and the functional zoning. Materials include water ripple board, granite, artificial stone, stainless steel and laminated glass. The space is more open and free than a traditional display and sales exhibition hall.

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Designer / Brand: Materia 174 Architecture Office Work: Residence Classification: Interior Date: Tuesday, 2 April 2024

Zero Gravity

The villa creates an internal space where a person is given a special freedom of move and spatial experience. All the connections are short; there are no unnecessary rooms so you can live the entire space every day. Here is considered the sensory experience of human interaction with light, materials, and the atmosphere. Certain effect is created by lamps, which are expressive, both with and without light e.g. angel wings in living room are able to dematerialize, dissolving into space. Particular attention is paid to details with a clear drawing, balance between rounded forms and ration lines.

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Designer / Brand: Hui Fan Work: Exhibition Classification: Interior Date: Monday, 1 April 2024

Pablo Home Art Gallery

Pablo Home Art Gallery is a furniture brand showroom interior of 2200 square metres in Foshan, China. The design raises a furniture display hall to the level of a living art gallery for brand experience. Bamboo and century-old tree roots form the ceiling and the staircases of the lobby, with the bamboo hung densely and unevenly like stalactites in a cave. Blank gray is the main tone, while calm Morandi colors are combined with bright turquoise. Waste fabrics from furniture making are reused as art installations.

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Designer / Brand: Alex Kovachev Work: Private Residence Classification: Interior Date: Sunday, 31 March 2024

Mountain Chalet

Mountain Chalet is the interior design of a private mountain villa of 440 square meters in Smilovtsi, Bulgaria. The design combines the characteristic elements of a mountain chalet with a timeless and luxurious character. Natural materials shape the interior, including wood, natural semi-precious stones and natural leather, used in the decor, the wall fixtures and the floorings. Both floors and the spa area are arranged as places to gather friends and guests for relaxation. The concept draws on the owner's childhood memories of the wooden veranda of his grandfather's house.

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Designer / Brand: Moriyuki Ochiai Architects Work: Nursery Classification: Interior Date: Saturday, 30 March 2024

Daruma International

Moriyuki Ochiai Architects performed the design for a nursery school. Deliverables included an environment suitable to the school's educational policy, namely, bringing up children both physically and mentally that can think, learn and act on their own initiative. Thus, They set out to create a space that would promote a variety of uses and encourage children to come up with their own games as they would do in nature by recreating geographical features inspired by nature’s most beautiful assets; its colors and lakes.

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