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Cool Design News

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

 

Slab Hill

The Slab Hill is refining aesthetic values from the laws of nature based on the original intuition. It is simple – taking structural archetypes as the starting point and giving a new definition to naturally grown buildings that break away from the everyday practice of construction. Under the plural and freely growing umbrellas, a variety of businesses are also freely distributed and staggered, each of which is organized around an umbrella, with the area of an umbrella and the business displays underneath forming a content cell that continues to attract customers to visit and linger.

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Tiangang Art Center

Taking the concrete structure of the original building as a base to be extended and augmented, SYN Architects has added a new steel structure, allowing the main facade to gradually twist and tilt outwards and upwards, transforming from walls to eaves. The original building's network of columns is not able to support the load requirements of the new architecture, so additional columns and a new structural system have been introduced. The design team has taken this necessity of engineering and given the new organization of columns an aesthetic quality.

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Dahua Park City

The visual experience of the building is closely related to the sight lines. How to hide and expose is the key that runs through the whole project. The narrow road that leads to the site is turned into a tranquil twisting path, which creates a varying experiences along the way. The building adopts complicated curved forms, which outline multi-level spaces. The interior circulation route creates a spatial sequence and embraces the lake view to provide pleasing experiences.

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Peak Art

Xushuguan has profound cultural and historical heritage and prosperity in the old days. However, in the development and construction of modern cities, the traces of the Xushuguan history and culture are gradually dissipating. Accordingly, the architect uses modern design techniques and materials to extend the cultural and historical lineage of Xushuguan and creates a modern architectural form available to interpret its traditional spatial context.

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NamKwong Diehu Center

Located in the CBD area of the city, the project is next to Diehu Lake, the main landscape of the central axis. Taking advantage of the natural landscape of Diehu Lake, the twin towers are inspired by the form of a butterfly. With the objective of the backyard of Shanghai and Qidong Citizens' Leisure Circle, as well as a great healthy ideal community, the complex will become a healthy community featuring ecological residences with fitness parks. The project integrates a new lifestyle and opens a new chapter in Qidong with a butterfly form to express the inheritance of the times.

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West Suburban Elegance

The project is positioned at the root of Shanghai, Sijing Town, Sijing with a history of more than a thousand years. With a view to continue the local language and respect traditional Sijing culture, the design wholly adopts the settlement form to present rich space, leaving the surrounding environment and the building as a borrowed landscape from each other, meanwhile, with modern approaches to restore the traditional space, it gives visitors a modern garden space experience.

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World's greatest design teams.

Sometimes you need a very big team of talented designers to come up with truly great designs. Everyday, we feature a distinct award-winning innovative and creative design team. Explore and discover original and creative architecture, good design, fashion, graphics design and design strategy projects from design teams worldwide. Get inspired by the original works by grand master designers.

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