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Cool Design News

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

 

Bay Mega Mansion

At the intersection of cornice and sky, Added transition elements such as beveled edges and arcs to make the connection between the building volume and the sky more smooth. The delicate structure makes the form and content maintain sufficient coordination, and the relationship between the whole and the part is properly handled. The structure under the clean and pure building facade. The pure all glass curtain wall and simple cornice bring visitors a pure experience.

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Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd

Inspired by the dancing aurora, the designer introduced an impressive façade design through bottom to top connections between the northern and eastern sides. The dance of light is characterized by the juxtaposition of rectilinear forms and tower facades with double curves. This 201M high office tower has the strong feature of a Double Curved Facade, which put it among one of The Most Twisting Towers in the World.

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Tension Instrument

The project is based on the study of architecture and music. The design focuses on how to take inspiration from intangible music and present it in tangible architectural space. The design ultimately combines the two through "tension", a force that is prevalent in both architecture and music. The concert hall is an orchestration of walls, balconies, and acoustic panels, which are developed from a unique architectural prototype by different scales and tectonics. The dramatic contrast of old and new creates a new cultural landmark for Prague.

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RO54

Perched on a hilltop in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, the project gently lands a dynamic building on top of a buried podium that replicates the original natural topography. The design utilizes an unconventional split-level configuration to follow this topography with staggered floor plates over a central void space. The project was informed by automotive performance design with concealed technologies that amplify the sensory performance of the architecture.

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Villa Madonna

The morphology of the Hotel Villa Madonna extension was determined by the purpose of identifying meaningful relationships with the natural context. This approach has allowed the adoption of an architecture that, while strongly differentiating stylistically and linguistically, manages to converse harmoniously with the more traditional character of the building to which it is juxtaposed. The intervention relates to the existing building by interpreting the basic compositional role using only technical materials that would, however, resume the logic of tradition in mountain buildings.

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Sunac Snow Park

With its huge building volume, unique architectural shape, and professional ski track, Sunac Snow Park not only naturally integrates into the surrounding mountains of Dujiangyan, but also deeply blends into the lives of ice and snow lovers. At the same time, combined with regional characteristics, with Bashu culture as the core, cultural symbols, and architectural design are integrated to create a landmark building with unique regional characteristics.

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