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

 

Oriental Mood

Oriental Mood is a residential interior design covering 1400 square meters in Shanghai. Water is treated as the first element of the scheme, following the linked land and water of the Jiangnan water garden. The first floor of the existing building already shared this rhythm, with rooms and trees set around a central pool. Images taken from the natural landscape are placed within the static architectural space, so details and time shape the mood of each room. Materials include metal board, rock board, ceramic tile, copper board, wood veneer and gypsum board.

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FFB Bar

FFB Bar is a bar interior located in Shenzhen. The space covers 1360 square meters. The main materials are fish belly white marble, pure copper, hand-painted murals, carved solid wood beams and columns, agate green lacquered panels and oak mosaic flooring. An eight-meter-high solid wood wine cabinet stands at the hollow bar area and holds many kinds of whisky. Custom-carved railings and handrails show galloping horses. Stairs and columns divide the space into dynamic and static zones for dining, drinking, meeting friends and entertainment.

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Central Park

Central Park is a sales office and reception centre located in Xi'an, China. The interior covers 1500 square metres and stands beside a large urban ecological park of about 113.4 hectares, which serves as a natural landscape resource. The plan follows the visitor route in four stages: introduction, elucidation, transition and summary. Each stage is expressed through a pavilion, falling leaves, lake water and a single tree. A glazed leaf installation runs through the space, moving from the entrance wall to the foyer ceiling and into the pool.

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Zhangjiagang Marriott Hotel

Zhangjiagang Marriott Hotel is a hospitality interior design project located in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, China. The hotel contains 323 guestrooms and suites with skyline views and open-plan bathrooms, dining outlets and more than 4000 square metres of meeting and banquet space. The interior refers to the position of the city as a port on the Yangtze River, so water is a central element. Colours and forms taken from Chinese landscape painting guide the theme. Durable and non-toxic materials were selected, and the floor plan was reorganised to use the space efficiently.

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Hide and Climb

Hide and Climb is a residential interior design covering 110 square meters in Taipei, Taiwan. The home combines rock climbing with spaces for working, learning, reading and playing, while keeping traditional areas such as the kitchen, dining space and bedrooms. A tree house form is used as the central icon, and the organic shape of the climbing wall is repeated across the plan. Birch plywood is the main material. The layout can change over time, as the tree house is planned to become a wardrobe when the two children grow older.

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Portugal Vineyards

The Portugal Vineyards concept store is the first physical store for the online wine specialist company. Located adjacent to the company’s headquarters, facing the street and occupying 90m2, the store consists of an open-plan devoid of partitions. The interior is a blindingly white and minimal space with circular circulation - a white canvas for the Portuguese wine to shine and be displayed. The shelves are carved out of the walls in reference to the wine terraces on a 360 degrees immersive retail experience with no counter.

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