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Cool Design News

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

 

Dongyi Dunhuang

The building of Dongyi Dunhuang Hotel has a cold temperament, which isolates itself in the desert, from nature to nature, without any grandstanding, and interprets the "East and Dunhuang" in everyone's mind. At Dongyi Dunhuang Hotel, the roughness is only the hidden design context, allowing you to experience the cultural stories and natural ecology left over from Dunhuang from different dimensions and angles. In the unique "hidden" world, the space is changed with silence and various subtleties are scattered.

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House RG

A house with an unusual design. Large aluminum brise soleil form a contemporary facade, a dynamic composition with lots of movement. The climate of the region is characterized by high temperatures. These brise soleil protect the internal environments from intense luminosity and heat during the day. The integration of exterior and interior is made by big glass panels. Stunning environments and double height ceilings also characterize the architecture of this project. Environmentally friendly solutions such as photovoltaic panels for solar energy were used to give the finishing touches.

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The North Teaching Cluster of Zjuic

The International Campus of Zhejiang University (Zjuic) locates beside Juanhu Lake, China, occupying a land of 800,000 square meters with a gross floor area of 400,000 square meters. The campus's overall planning and design is based on 1 axis, 2 circles, 3 centers, and 4 zones. It absorbs the forms of relevant spaces and facades worldwide. The design enhances the guidance, fluidity, openness and publicity of the building complex by bridging the site’s north-south corridors and setting clear open spaces and routes.

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Rencent Office Center

Facing the sea, the building extends horizontally with the shoreline, echoing the topography and the surrounding buildings. The original building has a part of terrace on the sea side, so the design extends the greenery on the ground in layers towards the roof to integrate the building into the surrounding environment. Facing the city, the view frame approach continues to be used in the facade. Distinguished from the coastal facade, the view frame here to showcase itself to the city .

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Hongzhou Academy

The building is located at an intersection in Nanchang County, so it uses two typical blocks facing the urban road respectively which shape the building and form the entrance square. The building has a fairy well outline that reminds people of the traditional chinese building, and the elegant roof curve is very impressive too.

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Guobin Road

Focusing on the changing relationship between landscape environment and urban texture, a new look of jade can be seen through broken stones. With the help of modern materials such as stone and glass curtain wall, the natural artistic conception of simplicity can be expressed. The natural and organic combination forms in a disordered way construct a urban skyline, which makes people get along with nature, and achieves the harmonious communication among people, architecture and environment by means of multi space dialogue.

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