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Design News Magazine

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

 

Sheraton Kunming

Sheraton Kunming is a five-star hotel interior located in the core business district of Kunming, China. The design draws on local elements of Yunnan, including the ancient Tea-Horse Road, the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces and movable-type printing artworks. Local colors, materials and craft textures are combined to present regional customs and traditional forms in a new way. In the lobby, landscape patterns form a decorative background, while organic curves enrich the visual levels. Marble and metal surfaces add contrast within the space.

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Pullman Yuxi Yunnan

Pullman Yuxi is a five star resort hotel located in Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, China. The design places the hotel in harmony with the surrounding mountains and makes full use of the outdoor landscape. Water is used as a medium to reflect the colors and the panorama of Yuxi, adding a symbolic feature to the hotel. The artistic imagery of Chinese painting is applied to the space, which is simple and elegant. Local Yunnan craftsmanship and the textures of traditional ethnic architecture appear in the interior details. Indoor and outdoor areas are connected through the site and the building.

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Xiangxin Huzhou Songyuanli

Xiangxin Huzhou Songyuanli is a residential interior design that also serves as a prototype house shown to the public. The project covers 696 square meters in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The architecture draws on traditional Huizhou building, with white walls and black tiles. Inside, crystal and metal are combined, and gold and silver wares and antique paintings complete the rooms. The furniture uses local Huzhou silk. Traditional engraving, embroidery and garden techniques are joined with a modern lifestyle, so the home meets the needs of the owner and of visitors.

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Flava

A mix of segregation and connectivity. Keeping the openness of the floor intact, all feature elements are strategically planed to create series of discussion pockets. The store is designed on fractal behavior that explores the concept for sequencing the space that is both immersive and sculptural. The space promotes a very strong sense of design while leaving a stage for the products that are being displayed.

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Ohv

The project is a three bedroom condo showflat. It is intended to showcase a dwelling for a family of four: a pair of young, working professionals and their two preschool children. Conceived during the time of Covid-19 when people started to stay at home for longer periods of time, the apartment was designed to help foster closer ties within the family while giving each person the space they need to work, play and grow as an individual. The unit was reconfigured from its original layout to include more open spaces for shared use to mitigate "cabin fever" from being home for prolonged periods.

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Parametric Cross

Cross is a multifunctional bookstore created for public reading, salon events, coffee and study. A simple warehouse-like space covers 70 percent of the 780 square meter interior, which keeps the construction budget low. The remaining area holds a large partition installation of 48 Chinese moon gates and western arches, generated with parametric software and prefabricated in a factory. The frames are steel and the surfaces are perforated aluminum panels, with embedded LED strips that soften the material. Gradient colors mark each function and help visitors find their way.

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