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

 

The Kaleidoscope

The Kaleidoscope is the living and working building located at a factory site in central Vietnam. Placed between the hill and the sea, it frames diverse (kaleidoscopic) views in directions and times. The project aims at creating a protected space from the tropical climate, and enhancing the user’s contact with nature. Under a roof resembling a Non La, a traditional farmer’s hat of Vietnam, multiple V-shaped walls divide the floors into triangular private rooms and in-between common spaces, allowing for constantly changing natural light and ventilation conditions throughout the building.

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CETC Research Institute

The project lies in Hefei High-tech Zone, Anhui Province. It is a landmark building cluster integrating science and technology research and development, system testing, system co-testing demonstration and information center. According to the classification standard of relevant industries, buildings are combined freely, so as to form multiple enclosed or open spatial patterns. Characteristic contemporary design expressions and traditional spatial charm present the local features, reproduce traditional Hui-style architectural culture, and well interpret rationality of modern technology.

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Collina del Faro

Collina del Faro is a residential building with 8 apartments, located on a site in the foot of farol hill and next to the beach in the city of Torres-RS, in southern Brazil. It is a building that takes advantage of the natural beauties present in its surroundings to propose a dialogue between architecture and nature, achieved through the staggering of floors that, in addition to making reference to the topography itself, allow the creation of terraces with pools with a direct view of the sea for each apartment.

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RB23

Can the modern 300 meters house aspire to be a residence? In Poland still very popular is a stereotype vision of villas close to the Polish manors. For many it’s not easy to accept the fact that prestige residence can be represented by functional, modern architecture and in 300 meters of usable space you can fit everything necessary to feel the atmosphere characteristic of larger residences. This happened in RB 23. The characteristic element of this building is a wide and narrow window from the front side pressed into the body of the first floor.

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Casa Una

In a park in the city of Uberlandia, Brazil stands Casa Una, a community center and gathering space for park visitors and neighborhood residents. In addition to other uses, it has an open auditorium, a food hall, an office for the neighborhood association, and an exhibition space. Built with a laminated timber structure, the building uses energy-saving passive ventilation and thermal comfort techniques. Lastly, the roof is topped with three species of vegetation covered in a geometric pattern, reducing the heat gained from solar exposure and acting as a fifth facade when viewed from above.

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Mountain Sea Wind

The project is located in an area with rich landscape resources. The design is based on the site and makes full use of the site resources to create a container for viewing. The Mountain and Sea Wind Pavilion integrates natural elements such as "Mountain and Sea Wind" into the architectural design, and the building itself is also a human landscape with beautiful curves. Architects provide an open space where leisure or business activities can occur naturally; different from the hard and cold image of concrete materials. They explored the softness of concrete materials in this project.

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World's greatest design teams.

Sometimes you need a very big team of talented designers to come up with truly great designs. Everyday, we feature a distinct award-winning innovative and creative design team. Explore and discover original and creative architecture, good design, fashion, graphics design and design strategy projects from design teams worldwide. Get inspired by the original works by grand master designers.

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