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Cool Design News

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

 

Borgio Verezzi

Borgio Verezzi is a residential building with twenty-two floors, in the city of Caxias do Sul, in the extreme south of Brazil. The choice for a differentiated residential product was a conviction of the developer and the architectural firm since its earliest studies. Volumetrically, the building is constituted of a vertical monolith of which they were suppressed volumes in their corners where are located their balconies. These balconies are pushed and stretched for a better viewing and sunlight of each plane.

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The Landmark

The Landmark is a major new landmark proposed for the Lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia. The Landmark signifies the surrounding native landscape and geology by its seamless integration with lush green spaces. The design is inspired by the tranquil water surfaces of Sydney harbour reflecting the ever-changing dynamics and colour of city and sky. The spectacle reflections are captured in the best possible views with the unique configuration of each floor and balcony throughout the building.

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Alila Wuzhen

This project overall pattern takes villages south of the Yangtze River as its prototype, and retains the spatial forms, basic elements, architectural scales and color relations of traditional tribes. The tranquil water surface and pure architectural form are well coordinated, which perfectly reflects the multi-level and semi-transparent relations between buildings, between buildings and plants, as well as between buildings and water surface.

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Fengqi Chang’an Aesthetics Museum

Inspired by nature, traditional Chinese gardens, and landscape paintings, through the combo of different sizes of functional forms, architects combine various courtyards and inlay the elements of verandas to create a continuous, flexible, and rich garden space. Besides the usage for the exhibition, the building takes the experience of visitors in the garden into account. The courtyards are set up according to various functions, including the ones for display, communication, meditation, activities and etc., which are blended with each other through crisscrossed corridors.

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Muh Shoou Xixi

Muh Shoou originally means the last fruit left by farmers on the tree with the special intention of sharing it with animals in nature so as to pray for the harvest of the coming year. That’s just where the name of Muh Shoou Xixi comes. The architect attempts to present the natural beauty of Xixi Wetland - coldness, quietness, uniqueness, wildness and seclusion - to visitors through the design and evoke the resonance between human and the primitive nature through the architecture. While rambling in the Wetland, it's hidden in the dense forest quietly with poetic aesthetics.

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Tibetan Eagle

The campsite is located beside Ranwu Lake with the altitude 3960m. This place provide the site for people who desire to road trip to stay and enjoy the view of Ranwu Lake. The project use modern materials to describe the Tibetan characters, most of materials are environmentally friendly. This local color are red and white which is exactly what the project want to use on weathering steel & fiber cement to interpret the meaning of color. For environmental protection, this project use lots of local waste materials, like stones after debris flow disaster and woods from worn train tracks.

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