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Cool Design News

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

 

Istanbul Equestrian

The equestrian facility consist of indoor/outdoor arena, club house, guest house and a private housing. The facility designed for private use however it is developed in international FEI standards. Design inspiration came from the farm's location and the materiality just off the forest. It is modern and compact. The importance of design is ''health of horses''. The starting point always is horses and relation with its nature. The design can not be separated from horses nature life. That's why the layout and the materiality all refers to nature life and health.

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Shamim Polymer

The plant needs to maintain three programs including production facility and lab and office. The lack of defined functional programs in these types of projects is the reasons for their unpleasant spatial quality. This project seeks to solve this problem by utilizing circulation elements to divide unrelated programs. The design of the building revolves around two void spaces. These void spaces create the opportunity for separating functionally unrelated spaces. At the same time acts as a middle courtyard where every part of the building is connected with each other.

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Collage of Melodies

The project is the expansion of International School of Beijing, which is a proactive architectural approach to motivate a leading international school to further evolve to the cutting edge of learning environment, enclosing variety of learning communities inclusive of ages, times and cultures. The Collage of Melodies not only counterbalances the solemn appearance of the existing building, but also transforms the school to a new era of education with refreshing Collage of Art and Music Melodies.

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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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Fon 23

It is a human-oriented smart green office building. Persisting in green design techniques all the way starting with the design, to the selection of eco-friendly construction materials. For the sustainable development of the enterprise, the goal is set as the smart green office building, with the planning characteristics including massive greening for the entire building; green energy combined with recyclable energy providing comprehensive facilities and friendly contribution to the environment.

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Big Aplysia

In the process of urban development, it is inevitable that the same built environment will emerge. Traditional buildings can also seem drab and aloof. The appearance of special-shaped landscape architecture softens the relationship between people in the architectural space, becomes a place for sightseeing and activates the vitality.

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