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Cool Design News

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

 

Dan Mo

This project is a retirement residence owned by a retiree who has been retired from a complex business environment but still remains with a pure living mindset. The designer chooses the lotus which symbolizes purity as it is out of the silt but not imbrued to reflect the life outlook of the residence owner while deploying architectural elements to portray the overlapping petals of lotus and the parallel pattern on the petals. On top of that, the matt-finished concrete grey symbolizing a sense of serenity also a humble life.

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Qingdao Pingdu Olympic Center

Qingdao Pingdu Olympic Sports Center is the first project in China to combine Space Efficiency Theory with practice. This project is the main venue of the 34th National Game, Shandong Province. Through the reorganization of the internal functional system, it not only reduces the building area, but also improves the space use efficiency and space flexibility, which makes it possible for daily use after the National Game. Based on this, these buildings present distinct characteristics in the city, establishing a precise and organic relationship with the surrounding environment at the same time.

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Midea Heyou

Located in the city of Foshan, the hospital will serve as a comprehensive medical center, shifting from a traditional treatment led to a health led approach, accessible to the whole community, applicable to the whole life cycle and covering the whole medical spectrum. Inspired by the ancient waterways townscape, the design features interlocking landscape corridors to open up the indoor space to create a healing garden hospital that has a symbiotic relationship with nature. It is also a civic garden house that fully integrates energy-saving technology.

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Dongguan CBD Parking Building

The inspiration of this project combines both the unique meandering water bodies of Dongguan and the unique core location of the site, the design team proposing to extend the two major streets as flowing, water like ribbons, in order to reform the chaotic existing parking conditions in the vicinity and establish the spatial and facade languages for the new garage building. Using the "infinitely flowing loops" to organize the traffic circulation, two independent yet equally dynamic curves spiral up and intertwine, forming an architectural image as an urban sculpture.

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Zenstay

Starting from local dwelling and natural texture, he tried to improve experience for visitors on the easternmost island in China by generating spaces meet both needs of traditional culture and current function under the seemingly dramatically opposite old and new architectural forms. Meanwhile, he explored the island stone house to construct skills as an appropriate technology (low tech), regional cultural of reference, its interventional reconstruction of the possibility and sustainable idea of the reflection and necessity.

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Bamboo Pavilion

The Bamboo Pavilion is a public renovation project that is designed to subvert the perception of a typical public bathroom in Macau, which is dirty, wet and smelly. The original facility was an enclosed building setting apart from the natural surroundings. The Bamboo Pavilion, a new design, is built on top of the existing structure and foundation. The idea is to reconnect the broken link between culture, human and nature in a public facility by reorganizing the plan to enhance functionalities and by applying bamboo-like construction tectonics to correspond with its natural surroundings.

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