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Cool Design News

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

 

Yokohama Chigasakihigashi

This spec home focuses on living in harmony with the sky, designed by renowned architect Shin Takamatsu, an expert in traditional Japanese housing. Takamatsu believes that a home must have a deep relationship with the sky. The design includes a room extending toward the sky, surrounded by simple white spaces. This flexible layout allows the sky room to be the focal point or to blend with the surrounding spaces, offering various living styles that connect with the sky.

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Al Ghunayman

Harmonizing Nature and Architecture Experience Al Ghunayman Villa's unique blend of nature inspired design and architectural innovation. Unlike traditional structures, its organic flow and curved walls create a dynamic, fluid space. The sculptural façade with undulating curves enhances aesthetics while optimizing natural light and ventilation, redefining modern living with beauty and functionality. Discover a residence where every detail harmonizes with the natural world, inviting a serene and captivating living experience.

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Embraced in Recycled Steel

Seamlessly blending innovation and sustainability, this office redefines the relationship between architecture and recycled steel. The facade, inspired by stacked billets, symbolizes material regeneration, while the interior integrates the company’s own steel products with precision and elegance. Designed to embody Kyoei Steel’s vision, the space fosters creativity, collaboration, and efficiency, minimizing environmental impact while reinforcing the company’s expertise, technological advancements, and commitment to sustainable and responsible manufacturing.

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BK Salon

The project is a Thai restaurant in a fine dining format. The concept of the project design integrates architectural styles with a cluster building layout, creating an open court inside that serves as an outdoor seating area with a pleasant atmosphere under the shade of trees. The form and facade of the building weave together Thai culture, from dining to various utensils such as sticky rice containers Kratip, woven basket, round bamboo basket and traditional Thai woven products.

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Cuiwan Zhongcheng

Cuiwan Zhongcheng is located at the junction of two plots, unfolding towards the city and showing future architecture, future traffic, future neighborhood and many other life scenes in future community. From the perspective of the city, the project introduces the concept Ring of Infinity Mobius, and fuses the infinite four dimensional form into the three dimensional space in an abstract manner, hence creating a continuous, and multidimensional open space. Variations in the multi-dimensional form arouse uncertain imagination about the building.

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272 Hedges Avenue Pedestal

The two-story pedestal base of 272 Hedges Avenue in Gold Coast, Australia, brings a human scale to the residential tower and creates a contextual connection with the surroundings. As urbanization grows, it separates humans from nature. The pedestal merges the built and natural environments, improving the area and community. Advanced design techniques and products were used by Contreras Earl Architecture to create a biologically informed and digitally engineered design. The pedestal is a unique and site-specific solution that contributes to the evolution of architecture and urban development, benefiting inhabitants and the environment.

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