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Cool Design News

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

 

Don Majestic

Don Majestic is a new hotel in Punta del Este, designed by Guevara Ottonello Architects. In the Design of the building, the main objective was to create a sculptural and unique architectural shape, an innovative design, an Icon. Looking for that moment when architecture transcend itself. Trying to express poetic in architecture. Light and transparency, as a pure and curved shape, are main aspects of the project. In Don Majestic Hotel, the main objetive and challenge was to design with poetic, with courage and with passion, the sculptural shape of a Punta del Este Architectural Icon.

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Hill House

The harmonious integration into the surrounding landscape guided the formal and functional choices of this project, designed to accommodate the morphology and topography of the site, that takes quality and ecological commitment into high consideration. The two housing units, that share the common service areas on the ground floor, propose different ways of living, as they are developed differently to the local countryside. Materials and the dry-type construction, are in line with the eco-sustainable design to respond to the desire to live in a house in the green without wasting natural space.

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Yoyo City

Situated adjacent to natural wetland and right next to primary access expressway, Yoyo City stands as the new city gateway that stitch between urban and nature. Inspired by its surroundings, Yoyo City extends its energy into the green spaces of the shopping mall. The floating islands concept from the wetland becomes the key element that integrates the whole development linking the boutique apartment, shopping street and shopping mall. Yoyo City offers a garden mall experience to the people of Yinchuan.

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CapitaLand Ascendas Plaza Renovation

The framework was formulated and crafted by overlaying corporate workplace, co-working space and retail with a community inspired experience, resulting in a unified and distinct design language - a sequence of unique and characteristic spaces that encourages social interaction. Designers created a dialogue between the building and the urban environment, at the same time, the elaborate facade improves the aesthetics of the district.

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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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Zhuzhou Civic Center

The project uses the advantages of Central Park to provide an outdoor exchange place for the maker; Six pleasant floating islands surrounding central activity square the urban green axis cuts the building at the bottom, and the slow path and water system connect the north and South parks, and forms a comfortable bottom commercial space, creating an efficient municipal service place, providing healthy, comfortable and convenient and ecological space and environment for the public affairs and activities and civil servants' offices. The energy consumption is 1/6 to 1/10 of similar projects.

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