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

 

Tanjing

The project is located in Taijiang District, Fuzhou City. It resides to the north of the historic Guangming Port and next to the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys Historical Area. The project preserves the two ancient banyan trees on the site, creating a series of spaces and inner streets around them and evoking the traditional Fuzhou lifestyle that exists "under the bayan tree, next to the river". Green living, Dragon boat museum, Art exhibitions, Sales center, Leisure, and Entertainment are all united within the Tanjing Sales center, bringing a new vibrancy to the neighborhood.

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Phoenix

The project, located in Qingyang District, Zhejiang Province, covers a land area of 43,000 square meter with a floor area ratio of 2.0. What features the project most is the three classic Chinese-style architectures built in the southeast corner, constituting the distinctive urban houses with courtyards unique to Chengdu. The designers seek to make the spatial form of the architecture complex conform to the traditional living pattern by designing different courtyards that scatter in the project.

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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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