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

 

The Lesser Polish Eaves Cottage

The Lesser Polish Eaves Cottage is a house which was inspired by the Polish wooden arcade architecture. The search for regional features characteristic for single-family housing led designer to discover forgotten traditional eaves houses of the region. The design was created in order to accommodate a 4-person family space, located on the unusual long and narrow plot of irregular shape. There were separated as many as five different levels, legally falling within the definition of a two-story building.

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River Sea

The site is located near the estuary. The plan divides the building into three main uses. The three buildings are kept apart by the courtyard. The path runs through the three buildings and the two courtyards, connecting the spaces. On the flow line of the path, the boundary between the inside and the outside becomes ambiguous. The wall is covered with border tiles made from local Awaji roof tiles. In each case, it is not the traditional way of using Japanese architecture, but the way of using it as a resort in this place in Awaji. That's a fusion of architectural vernacular and modern.

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Espacio Kaab

Espacio Kaab is a house project for a young couple, where the fundamental requirement was the interaction with the environment and the use of materials visually and conceptually integrated with the natural context, such as stone and earth, giving a modern touch with steel and concrete. The difficult topography of the land gave the opportunity to do a strong and unique character in the area, is a project with a lot of interesting spaces, beautiful views and environments that blend with the nature.

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International Duty Free

Aoe try to creatively use the language of destructure on this land, to collide and connect vision and vision of life with the site architecture here, break the traditional site impression, break the traditional inherent thinking, and reshape a foundation based on The unique spiritual landscape on the site makes it a poetic link between the base and the building. For aoe vision of future life, it need three kinds of agent concepts and elements to elaborate and finally present the transmission of emotions.

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Chalets Dada

The basic geometrical design was inspired by a child's scribbling when he was asked to create a house. A play between solids, voids and materials was experimented in order to have the final result Located in the high highlands of Lebanon's Faraya Resorts, Chalets Dada exemplify beauty and luxury. The composition is built on the foundation of a ground level hosting one large apartment bordered by a flower garden. Two unusual duplexes are stoned with Terrazzo on the first and attic floors.

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Greenbay

Situated in Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, this project boasts an excellent 270 degree view of tea fields to the south and the Sichuan-Tibet Railway to the north with the tea shore sitting between the undulating hills and surrounded by a green sea of tea. The design narrows the distance between the building and the environment with a focus on visitors' experience and less impact on the nature.

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