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

 

Cobogos House

The design proposes pure and simple shapes, right angles, and some materials that providing thermal comfort, durability, and functionality. The Cobogos, decorative concrete blocks, are the highlight of the facade, allowing free movement of the wind in its empty spaces. These elements, combined with reinforced concrete and wood pattern aluminum slats provide the personality to the house. The outdoor leisure area, comprising a large swimming pool and landscaping that mixes tropical foliages and a century-old olive tree, creating an inviting and welcoming atmosphere.

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House On The Cliff

The one-storeyed house with a total area of 250 sq. m is located on the cliff, in Algarve, the southern part of Portugal. Architectural solution is two parallelepipeds embedded in each other, at the intersection of which the vertical of the chimney appears. The rhythm of the structure is set not only by the complex form but also by the multidirectional textures of the facade cladding materials. In the project, only natural materials and their derivatives are used.

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House in Okolitsa

The house with a total area of 1500 sq. m is located in the villa community "Okolitsa", Moscow region. The rhythmic architecture is defined by the complex topography of the site, which is practically a forest. In order to integrate the house into the environment, each volume is separated with atriums, which ensures the privacy of individual zones and forms interconnected relations between the exterior and the interior, landscape, and architecture.

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Chang An Temple

The design of the temple is based on the concept of ancient oriental architecture and integrated with the contemporary architectural elements. Besides, the uniqueness of the main temple, the landscape architecture is created through a Zen landscape garden with both Japanese cardinal red gazebo and Buddhist poem calligraphy crafted stones. Hence, it evoked the scene of the integration of the modern era and the ancient oriental aesthetic.

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Wuhan Liantou Tower

Phoenix, the god bird and local cultural symbol, is the inspiration for the tower crown, podium roof, and entrance facade design. Elegant, simple, and phoenix identity are designed for this local state-own client. Grand arrival lobby, auditorium, exhibition space, staff activity zones, reception atriums, sky garden are evenly distributed in the building to promote internal communication and energy. Delicate facade articulations make this building stands out from the surrounding to proudly present the client's pursuit of quality and exquisites.

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Rachel

Rachel House was designed to ensure an open environment for the family to interact and enjoy the central water courtyard on the ground level while maintaining their privacy on the upper floor bedrooms. The clean and modern facade is derived from juxtaposing bedroom cubes where one can enjoy framed views out into the lush oriental-themed landscape garden. The ground floor spaces open into the tranquility of the courtyard and the sound of flowing water.

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