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Cool Design News

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

 

Haikou Bay

This impressive "dynamic with the flow" and iconic landmark hotel allows urban view porosities to embrace both city and ocean. Spiral and the sloping urban roof garden of the hotel's ballroom promotes urban pedestrians' access and various activities. Almost 300m long building is cut into segments to bring down the overwhelming street scale and avoid "the wall effect". Single loaded corridor and S shape building is designed to allow maximum building envelope for all rooms having ocean view, which also satisfies the challenging 50m building height limit.

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Open Village

Open Village is an arthouse renovated from a decommissioned factory. While the brick façade of the cinema established a visual coherence with the neighboring urban fabric, the cinema’s irregular form and polychromatic exterior instilled the creative space with vibrancy. This new landmark became the cultural destination for events within the village where the cinema is situated.

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Dusit Thani Laguna

Inspired by the undulating green landscape of the golf course, Dusit Thani Laguna, nestled in the renowned Laguna National Golf & Country Club in Singapore, is an urban golf resort development which features a union of a world-class golf club and a Dusit Thani-branded hotel. The awkward marriage of two buildings with largely different functions, is disguised by the unified form of the roof. The sleek, curvilinear roof, which makes the architecture of the building, displays a uniform seamless surface with no visible joints, complementing the surging gorgeous landscape of the golf course.

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Sino German Creative Park Four

The design emphasizes the continuity of ecology by blending forests in different terrains to form a natural three-dimensional garden. Through the design techniques of natural landscape and the combination of art and the shape of the earth, the design makes the topography of the whole park full of texture changes, enhances the overall artistry of the park, and highlights the minimalist design concept. With the mix of evergreen and deciduous trees, it creates an ideal display and working environment.

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Linkong Biomedical Park

Zhengzhou Linkong biomedical park is divided into the South and the north according to its functions. The designer uses the East-West life axis in the middle to realize the North-South dialogue through the free walking curve, making the park a unified whole. It has built a new modular production center and a pilot production center in the north of the park. The core of the space uses the double helix structure to derive the vertical space combined with the central landscape. It pays homage to the most important source code of modern biomedical industry gene DNA.

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Blind

The Blind house was built to be a sanctuary for the owner to live in and practice meditation. The house is required to perform a simple function: open plan dining-living, two- bedrooms, and space for meditation. The challenge was the seamless experience of space where each function of the house harmoniously oriented. The presence of architecture articulates the space or its absence to bring the notion of the absent matter.

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